adversary enormous power over donald trump s own political future. xi jinping can now decide whether he wants to make a deal or not. just suffer the economic pain, let the economic situation deteriorate here. decrease donald trump s chances of getting re-elected and that is now xi s decision, not donald trump s decision. so there are two things going on at once. first of all, the president and his relationship with fox news which seems to have soured in recent weeks. he still speaks to a number of the anchors off air. you know, private conversations, lou dobbs in particular is his top informal adviser and he still speaks to sean hannity and tucker carlson quite a bit and he s leaned on them for foreign policy advice if that s to be believed. but he s grown concerned that he feels like fox should be on his side, that they should be part of the party apparatus.
didn t charge with anything after this all of this. maria: he has no charges, he s walking around a free man, yes he was wiretapped for over a year but let s not forget when you wire tap one individualist not just necessarily hearing that individual s conversation with everybody in his life. it s hearing everything he s doing, so not only were they think about that he was on a committee, for foreign policy advice for then candidate trump and he s having conversations with colleagues about where president trump wants to take foreign policy. that s what they were listening in on. they wanted a microphone in the trump campaign. they did, and the story after labor day, becomes the genesis, the origin that why did they? how did they do this? i know you ve had john ratcliffe on this program many times and john ratcliffe has actually read the unredacted versions of this, where the top of the application says verified. and it wasn t verified. maria: that is why.
political base, if you look at the argument he put forth to the american people in iran, it seems that tucker carlson s argument of more is more in line with that sort of isolationist, neo isolationist right wing base. right. setting aside a judgment about whether he should be receiving foreign policy advice from the 8:00 versus the at 9:00 p.m. hour on fox issue, but we reported in the run-up to the president s decision to bring it to the brink of ordering an attack, not doing so, he spoke to carlson several times and he was aware he was very aware and appreciative of the advice. and also, that was more in line with what he was being told from the pentagon. so let s remind ourselves yeah, talk about the pentagon s concerns. remember we don t have a permanent secretary of defense and that should not be overlooked here as tensions continue to rise. but the pentagon according to our reporting had real concerns about yes, sir, you can do the
the chair, elijah cummings, it already was looking into the security clearance issue, which has opinion an issue above and beyond just jared kushner. the chair wrote another letter today in the wake of the kushner revelations in the new york times. explain why this is an important issue for oversight and isn t just something that the president can grant or not grant as he pleases. well, here s why it matters. the president has had a systemic assault on expertise and civil servants in our democracy. look, i know jared kushner. we work at the white house office of innovation to pass a bill on the idea act. and this isn t a partisan issue. but who puts jared kushner in charge of middle east peace? and when you give him a top-secret clearance and you know that he s on whatsapp with mbs and saudi arabia and that this may be affecting things like the war in yemen, there are real concerns. so this isn t some partisan issue. this is saying that the president has disregarded foreign policy
he pleases. here s why it matters. thes has had a systematic assault. we work at the white house office of innovation to pass a bill on the idea act. who puts jared kushner in charge of middle east peace? and when you give him a top secret clearance and know he s on whatsup with saudi arabia and it s effecting the war in yemen, there are real concerns. this is saying the president has disregarded foreign policy advice. put his son in law in charge of the middle east peace crisis. there s reporting from nbc that house democrats are preparing a costo request the tax returns. that s the one that has jurisdiction.