percent of support he had and it was bound to go as soon as there was problems. i think the quest for that story, itself, is a shallow approach to a broader political landscape. so to speak. so, yeah, i think sam is absolutely right that they wanted that story, that narrative thrust. that trajectory was going to be circumvented by a couple things, first of all, that herman cain wasn t that deep and secondly, he dismissed the necessity to have the experience the president needed like uzbekistan or whatever that is, and to dismiss the need for foreign policy information, i ll leave it up to my generals. pretty quickly it became apparent herman cain wasn t ready for primetime. gentlemen, no pun intended here, but there s no godfather of the republican party that would step up and say, dude, you got to step out, you re hurting the brand. i mean, it s just drip, drip, drip. what about that, sam? well, i think you re starting to see that happen more and more. we had a piece up today ab
either john kelly rules the day and his edict, his new policies for background clearances apply to the president s son-in-law jared kushner, and he loses his interim status, or jared kushner wins and i don t know how john kelly stays in that job with any authority. well, look, you re absolutely right about the tension here. the white house put out a statement yesterday night and said kelly has the utmost confidence in jared kushner and that none of these changes should have any effect on his ability to do the his job. they re cagey about what the status his clearances are, what level he s at. you can get some, you can get interim clearances at different levels. this is the guy who is the point person on mid east peace. certainly that is something that involves national security and foreign policy information. so, you re right. something is going to have to give here. i m not sure why we haven t