trump watch, wednesday april 25th, 2018. general frances marion was one of the heros of the american revolution. known as the swamp fox, a master of guerrilla warfare. today we have another swamp fox in the form of south carolina s mick mulvaney, director of the omb, he moon litz running is the consumer financial protection agency. he has earned the name sbamp fox from admission that has a member of congress from south carolina, he follow aid rule, he would let people in to see him who had given him campaign money and refused to those who didn t. here s the direct quote. if you were a lobbyist who never gave us money, i didn t talk to you. if you were a lobbyist who gave us money, he might talk to you. i ve never heard it said so clearly is the definition of the swamp that donald trump ran against. a government with your must pay to play. what kind of message is mick mulvaney sending to other people in the administration? is he saying this is how you drain the swamp or sesaying this
concede anything to him in the long run. is it just because macron is a relatively new president of the france? macron gets dinner and tour of mt. vernon, going to arlington and getting state dinner. angela merkel who is more senior leader in europe, bigger economy, she has been around longer and viewed as senior player with how to deal with putin she gets a meeting. she has been much more public about her disagreements with the president. is that what this is about? this is sort of a personal thing. angela merkel sort of represents western liberalism that trump ran against. you can point to her policy on syria or not always syrian refugees coming into europe as sort of something that was animated a lot of what became the trump movement and similar movements across europe. macron is sort of he is
tone with the president. paul rye yoan had a different t with candidate trump and president trump. i saw the change happen the day after the election when i was at a news conference down in janesville and he talked about where he was going to go with this president. tone changed immediately because paul ryan saw an opportunity to get some things done that he said he promised the wisconsin voters. michael steele, you have been on the side of many conservatives who ran against president trump and who during the campaign had a lot of negative things to say. are you disappointed in paul ryan? no, not at all. i think had he been a rank and file member of the house, it might have been different. as speaker he felt he had a big job to do to get things done. i believe he chose tot not figh
donald trump tweets out. but i want to push back on your previous guest s characterization of john bolton. this is a man who was too radical for a republican-controlled senate in 2005 to be ambassador to the u.n. a lower position than in. a lower position, far less involved in foreign policy. he s a hard-core neo-conservati neo-conservative. he was part of the project for new american century, exclusively neo-con. the iraq war is something as a political matter ran against. pointedly against. he talked about george bush often in terms of jeb bush and in terms of that iraq war. this is an incredible departure from his pretense during the campaign. but it s a radical departure from u.s. foreign policy over decades. even, even under the bush administration.
leadership in the senate, they say if this is true, he must step aside. he s someone who did not listen to the republican leadership and the senate, in fact, ran against pretty aggressively against mitch mcconnell said he should get out, not be majority leader anymore. so he may not care what they think definitely doesn t care. mark short, the white house legislative director was just here, he said if true, the white house believes he should step aside as well. and look, the real concern for the republicans is they could lose this seat. i mean, we have not seen consistent polling in this state for this, we don t know where it stands, but some poll suggested it s close. if this really snowballs and becomes a huge story, which it is this could become devastating. and there are other questions right now about lisa murkowski who only is in the senate again because she launched a write-in campaign in alaska you can do that, in alabama, luther strange could do that. he doesn t