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keeping the country from chaos, he is sort of the board between chaos and what is happening now? he s not the only one, but i think when the dee finish if i have final history of this administration is written, the most fascinating chapter will be about the band of people in the administration who saw donald trump for the unprincipled and often unstable person whom he is, and who stayed there in an effort to keep the worst from happening. because he knows what the worst what could happen? because i don t think he trusts the president. regardless of what he just said, and i don t think the defense secretary trusts the president, and i think they are people who, whatever else you think of them are actually in this as patriots trying to make sure the worst doesn t happen. we keep hearing about his fitness, dissent and all of that and 25th amendment, is that real, the 25th amendment argument, if more dissent grows in his cabinet? it s within the realm of possibility. it exists
well, here. i think trump is right on the policy, but again, the way he goes about things are a little questionable. i m not a huge fan of using executive orders to enact drastic policy changes. that said, as someone who buys health care on the individual market, who has seen the pain of premium increases with obamacare, i m extremely hopeful that now being able to buy insurance across state lines possibly from different associations that can meet my family s needs, i m very optimistic as what to come. i think it s going to be rocky the next year and a half. if i were advising him i would have asked him to delay the changes until perhaps january so the insurers would have time to catch up in the new enrollment year which is usually through october to november. but, you know, i am hopeful for this. i think it s the right policy, but trump doesn t always do things in the smoothest fashion. okay. so, let s continue on and talk. i m going to let you weigh in, maria. the president was s
incredible honor it is to lead the department of health and human services at this pivotal time under your leadership. mr. president, thank you for the honor to serve the country. it is a great privilege you ve given me. what are you saying listen, i don t know about the cabinet. i don t know that much about the people in his cabinet. that s beyond my pay grade. i know about the pipe l who are supporting him and who still support him. they never met a green room they didn t like. they were critics of his before they went aboard his team and on and on and on. are you saying he s surrounding had ill self with fans, he s not competent, he doesn t tolerate dissent? what are you saying? he demands, however you say the noun of that, many of these people, and i make this point in the column, would not have gotten these opportunities under a different president. donald trump knows that. they know that. and that s sort of one of the dysfunctions of the administration. they don t have th
did not have his pick of the crop when he went outlooking for cabinet officials. there were many people who were never trumpers who were going to enter the administration. there were many people who were nonstarters because the administration donald trump kept a list of anything that said anything bad about him and didn t want them near him. in retrospect mitt romney was not going to be made secretary of state because he committed the cardinal sin of publicly reprimanded and doubting donald trump. look, i think it s i know his cabinet, they may think it s a good idea to keep putting kelly and others out, the more they do that you see the contrast between those people and the president. they seem more presidential. they are calming. yes. they are self deprecating humor. they now how to, if they don t want to answer a question, to succinctly change the subject, right? yes. in ways that he can t do. well, all of that is 100% true, but also we are seeing week after week the s