guy with the weird haircut, tell him up front, don t play with nuclear weapons on our watch, because we ll find a way of blowing you up, personally. we will get to you and you will wish you hadn t done this. how do we send this is this guy capable of that type of diplomacy? the answer to that question is yes, but you have donald trump with his twitter account and who knows that he s going to say there. but by all accounts, tillerson is a corporate diplomat, but top flight when it comes to negotiating with foreign governments, doing deals with them, making clear what he means. i don t think anyone is doubting his expertise, his qualifications, his intelligence. i think heidi is exactly right this is going to be a kind of proxy war for donald trump s desire to reshape our relations with russia. so people are really focused on rex tillerson s relationship does he understand, hugh, i ll get into a fight with you, because i know it s coming. does he understand when you re trying to
have banned abortions after a fetal heart beat is detected. however, kasich did sign another measure that prohibits abortions after 20 weeks. and the state department says it cannot confirm reports of a cease-fire in the syrian capital of aleppo. back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. naming rick perry as his secretary of energy, president-elect donald trump is choosing someone who said he wants to abolish the very department he s in and onow set. when he was a candidate for president, the department of energy was the one he famously or infamously forgot when he promised sweeping cuts to the federal government. here it goes again, rick. ry wii will tell you, it s the agencies of government when i get there that are gone. commerce, education, and what s the third one there? let s see. the third agency of government, i would, i would do away.
quite been against it? is he that guy now? why is he playing footsie with the neocons. not sure donald trump has traditional ideological is he going to be loyal to those who voted for him? i think he has an attention span that s focused on a lot of different things, not in depth on anything in particular. i think mike pence is coming out to be the most powerful vice president since cheney during bush s first term. so it s a different i think it s a different sort of foreign policy than we ve seen, certainly, in the last few presidents. here s what i don t get. senator, it seems to me that one interesting thing is, you can pick an agent for foreign minister or secretary of state, someone who s a staffer type, who will do what you tell them and you re in constant phone contact with them and have them back all the time or pick a heavyweight. it seems with tillerson he s paychecked a viceroy, like president obama picked hillary clinton, a real partner. but doing oil deals in
enjoy our best offers of the year. we re back with the hardball roundtable. heidi, tell me something i don t know. we re getting no indications that trump is actually going to divest as the ethics experts are urging him to do, so what does that mean in terms of day one? what s the worst possible scenario here? both in terms of national security and potentially violating the constitution. all of these trump buildings are going to need added security. they immediately become terrorist target, potential terrorism targets. why? because his name is on the building, and if somebody wants to make a statement that becomes an obvious target, they may need additional security. foreign governments have to provide that security. that becomes a constitutional issue and obviously national security issue. trouble, trouble. john bolton will be confirmed, rand paul, party of be confirmed for what?
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