is donald trump s order constitutional? it is so crystal clear that it is. the statute that he read to the police chiefs yesterday is exactly right on point. ainsley: jeff sessions was just confirmed yesterday. about time. now we have a justice department that s no longer rogue e. ainsley: what will the doj look like? well, i think it s going to be much more of a down the line law and order doj than the politicized one that we had under poem donald trump has promised that and the jeff sessions 12 to 13 years. i might not agree with everything jeff sessions do. it s going to be a far more traditional law and order oriented justice department. fbi and all the other instruments that belong to the justice department. brian: judge, do you think that the turbulence he put and all the consternation we received and watched leading to his nomination. leading to his confirmation,
these guys went in and risked their lives and very successful. did everything go well? no everything didn t go to plan but it s war. ainsley: did you know ryan owens. no but i know friend close him to. i talked to some friend this morning about it and asked what do you feel? she said yeah, it s horrible because they hear the kids of other parents talking about it at school or saying it s a failure or commenting negatively about that without counter acting about that with some of the positive results. that s hard on them. they gave their lives for that they planned, they worked hard. they are valiant. ainsley: did you go through that, people credit sighing? oh, yeah. in a way that s party of it. when it comes from somebody like john mccain it gives it weight. when he says it s a failure it sounds factual it s not factual. it s not true. brian: are not more resistance than they originally thought. makes you think you got close to people very important when you get that kind of fire
the face of the democratic opposition? you know, that s an interesting question. one thing i don t see among the democrats. i see some democrats who are talking about how the party needs to appeal more to white working class voters, on the basis of economics. what i don t see is them saying what other democrats have done in the past, which is we also need to try to cater a little bit to their cultural sensibilities in a way that bill clinton did in the 1990s. and i wonder if a merely economic message is going to be enough to try to cut those margins no. no. they re absolutely not. i wrote a whole book about it, no. there is a cultural riff right nogoing on in this country and progressives and my liberal friends, they think everything s transactional. that middle america family that goes to church every sunday. everything isn t about pocketbook and transactions. howard deen talked about it. i don t think enough progressives understand that.
romney was very grateful for. so i think there are there will be criticism throughout this entire process, transitions tend to get like that. but i don t think governor romney worries about it and i don t think the transition folks are procedure eworried about it. in david axelrod, at this point in 2008 when the president-elect was barack obama, how far along was the obama transition because a lot of people are saying this current transition, donald trump s transition, is moving at a much more quick at a quicker pace. yeah, i think that that is true. and i was one who said early on when people said it wasn t moving fast enough that that was very unfair. the fact is that he s moving at a pretty rapid pace here. the question isn t about speed, it s about coherence and about optics. coherence in that you look at someone like governor romney who was very critical of vladimir putin and russia during his
promise or at least partially. can he manage the entire economy like that? no. this is a vast country, vast economy. you actually need macroeconomic policy. everything isn t picking up the phone and calling a head of a company. so he has a short term win here. and the challenges will be greater down the line. some were surprised that he spent the top of his speech talking more about himself, the presidential campaign, reminding everybody about indiana instead of making it all about the workers, the jobs, those kinds of speeches as you well know, they clearly worked well for him during the republican primaries. they certainly worked well in the general election. do you think he will continue this kind of strategy, will it continue to work for him as he transitions to becoming president of the united states? well, first of all, let me say anybody who was surprised by that must have been encamped on