flynn and steve bannon and mitt romney does he really unify the republican party? he didn t do well with social conservatives in 2012. hasn t been seen as the big figure who unifies the republican party over the last four years. i think mitt romney is somebody that gained the president of all republicans even republicans like me that didn t think he was sufficiently conservative. the main thing is never trump crowd that is a small but very vocal, important crowd intellectually will be moved. the koerchs tif iconservatives will be moved. it s the professional class of the republican party. donald trump has clearly had an onslaught of new information whether it s intelligence information, meetings he s having on capitol hill. he s starting to realize i would imagine that this is a really big task ahead of him. he can t do it all by himself.
moderate that. mitt romney would signal to the world that there was somebody there who was measured and was going to not necessarily do things out of some ideological conviction that were rash perhaps. that s exactly what i ve been saying. he s the disruptor in the middle. he does not need giulianis and boltons disrupting on the outside. he needs people that are steady. by the way, again, flynn, let s talk about general flynn. it s confirmed. general flynn makes the appointment of somebody who is temperamentally sound like mitt romney all the more important. whether romney would have the weight there have been secretaries of state that have not had the ear of the white house. john kerry. or colin powell. michael flynn will have president trump s ear. that signals to me a better
and john meachem, i ll let you continue. it s not a fair shot. fools rush in. everyone is trying to get him to name all of these choices. it seems to me he s right on pace. he is. i m curious your view of this particularly on the romney thing. is the romney possibility coming from trump himself or are there people around him who have raised that? i think it s coming from trump himself. he likes the team of rivals approach. i think he also understands that mitt romney will unify the party first, which i think is pretty important. think about that. you bring in your most vocal critic and so brings the party together but more importantly calms some international concerns at some of his other appointments might bring. we have a lot of people. joining the conversation, chris,
romney is somebody who would represent a way in for a lot of people that are going to be needed to try to govern the country who would otherwise stay on the outside. that s somebody i trust that i can work with. romney himself from sources i ve been talking to and they ve been for the most part have kept this close to the vest but my sense is that romney, this is something romney would seriously consider. i covered him for a long time. i think if you asked him first in public life, he s a patriot. above everything else. i also think his problems with conservatives in the 2012 election don t really apply to being secretary of state. the fact that he had romney care. a precursor to obama care. all things he got hit for and maybe lost for. now he just has to be a statesman. maybe he has to be bridge to the establishment. give cover to other people hesitant about joining a trump administration. if romney is doing it he absolutely does that. we re not all of the way there yet in
jared s interest is protecting his father in law. that s it. he knows that. trump does. he could make money. put a gold bracelet on this or that. jared is going to lose a ton of money if he does this. i personally hope he loses a ton of money. he ll be fine. i m not too worried about his finances. romney loses a ton of money. i hope there are a lot of people dwight eisenhower said he never wanted somebody in his administration that could afford to be there. he didn t want somebody that was getting a raise going there. you want somebody making a sacrifice and doing it for the right reasons. there will be the question of whether or not jared kushner can legally do it. the law put in after bobby kennedy. there are ways. that you can t have a member of your own family in an agency over which you preside even unpaid.