president obama had he had been in the united states senate for practically a hot minute before he announced he would run for president. he d been a state senator but people liked that, too. they liked the fact that they had somebody in 2008 and again in 2016 can arguably look them in the eye especially given who their opponents were and say, i will go to washington as your president owing nobody anything. and i will work for you. it was a compelling argument for president obama in 2008, it was a compelling argument for donald trump in 2016. on security issues is you have president-elect trump without any national security or foreign policy or governing experience. you also have a secretary of state who only has private sector experience, no public service, no governing experience. you have a national security adviser who phrased some of the questions that i have about his judgment notnotwithstanding othe thank yous about things in his career, but in terms of policy decisions tha
a compelling argument for donald trump in 2016. on security issues is you have president-elect trump without any national security or foreign policy or governing experience. you also have a secretary of state who only has private sector experience, no public service, no governing experience. you have a national security adviser who phrased some of the questions that i have about his judgment not washington poswno thank yous about things in his career, but in terms of policy decisions that have been announced. monica crowley is someone i like from the news world. i met her in green rooms. just been announced as possibly a spokesperson for the national security council. she has a ph.d. in that field. she also has claimed publicly that president obama is secretly not black. barack obama is not black, yet this guy is campaigning as black and painting anybody who dares
sector experience, no public service, no governing experience. you have a national security adviser who phrased some of the questions that i have about his judgment notnotwithstanding othe thank yous about things in his career, but in terms of policy decisions that have been announced. monica crowley is someone i like from the news world. i met her in green rooms. just been announced as possibly a spokesperson for the national security council. she has a ph.d. in that field. she also has claimed publicly that president obama is secretly not black. barack obama is not black, yet this guy is campaigning as black and painting anybody who dares criticize him as racist. that s the biggest con i ve ever seen. one thing to talk like that in, you know, dummy cable news, this environment or on or on talk
course is the problem that the intelligence community always finds itself in, which is that it wants to bring forward evidence of a problem and then of course skeptics say bring out all of this classified material that you obviously share publicly. and if it s not shared publicly, it didn t happen. it s an impossible demand at some point, but i think that s absolutely correct that certainly senators and senior members of congress can get briefed on these kinds of matters, of course. we now have the news of rex tillerson of secretary of state. we have, as rachel pointed out at the end of her hour, we have a president with no governoring experience, no diplomatic experience, a national security adviser with no governing experience, no diplomatic experience and now a secretary of state with no governing experience, no diplomatic experience.
absolutely correct that certainly senators and senior members of congress can get briefed on these kinds of matters, of course. we now have the news of rex tillerson of secretary of state. we have, as rachel pointed out at the end of her hour, we have a president with no governoring experience, no diplomatic experience, a national security adviser with no governing experience, no diplomatic experience and now a secretary of state with no governing experience, no diplomatic experience. lawrence, remember the comment friend of bill ? and we ve got a friend of vlad situation. we have the national security adviser and state, they share this situation of being a friend of putin.