harry reid after the election said he should resign, as did a few congressional leaders on the democratic side, so this is about losing confidence in the fbi director and trying to move it forward. i think the president wants the american public to, again, restore confidence in both the fbi, but also all of our intelligence agencies. okay. what about the reports today about a potential shake up at the white house? do you think the president s advisers, his aides, his spokes people, have they failed him, or has he failed them? i think president trump drove a narrative during the campaign and it was really a pro growth narrative, it really talked about job creation, but it also talked about blowing up the boxes inside washington, d.c., and that s a very hard task. no matter who s advising them, no matter how many people are in his ear, at the end of the day that s what president trump ran on and built his businesses and governed as president of the united states. there s a tall task
where there s been a failing system, failing foreign policy the last 30 years in the united states. there s been failed in terms of job creation and not just about rolling back the last eight years, it s really about rolling back the last 20 years. the president ran on making america great again. when you change washington, which has been in establishment for 200-plus years, you re going to have battles and really your advisers are there to advise, but at the end of the day the president is there to lead and his decision s the only one that matters. eric, do you get any sense that a lot of people share that things just seem to be in disarray? everyone s kind of playing defense as you look for the news coming out of the white house. what s going to happen next, and does it sink up with what happened two days ago or a week ago. do you have any sense of that yourself, as well? actually, i don t. here s what i have a sense of. i have a sense when president trump ran, he talked about ch
he s rolled back so many regulations. the trump coalition is not just his base, it s a big coalition. it s an anti-d.c., anti-establishment coalition and he s getting things done that he was elected to do. nominating judge gorsuch was a huge win, rolling back all the regulations, markets being up close to 3,000 points. i think we have to step back and look at the actions of a president, not the rhetoric. if we looked at the rhetoric of a president, maybe we re going to say there s a lot of disarray in the white house, but i look at the actions. what he ran on, now what he s doing as president of the united states, we have to look back and say results matter and the results are good. how about with regard to the comey firing and the conversation that was had between them? if this president were a democrat and if he had asked the fbi director for loyalty to him and then asked if he was under investigation and then fired him in the midst of a russia investigation. would you be crying fo
lauren? moderate muslims are in a battle for the soul of islam. about 20 prominent muslims from the u.s., canada and europe gather inside washington, d.c., for the first time ever, a summit of muslim reformers. the aim is to push back against radicals. there s a problem within the house of islam that only they can solve to bring an end to the tyranny of isis in all radical ideology. they created a new declaration they ll distribute to mosques for the purpose of debating the truth of islam, that it s time for peaceful muslims to take control of their religion. we reject violent jihad. we believe we must targ eet the ideology of violele violence. this meeting we ve held over the past two days has been a summit. a summit that represents the sunlight from the gathering
the specific mention from isis today was washington. so if you re in charge of securing washington, what are your worries and what do you do? well, you know, chief lanier and the 19 government security agencies that are inside washington, d.c., i m sure they already have a game plan for stitching up the streets. however, it s not about washington. when they say that, they are talking about the capital of the great crusader enemy and what they are really saying is anyone, anyplace in america, or the west. as much as they would love to carry out an attack in washington, and that could be as simple as a one-man cell or an organized cell coming from anywhere and just shooting up a street, i think that they are more focused on the very fact that they want to spread fear throughout the united states and get the united states to act in a hasty manner in the middle east again.