he hasn t. chuck, how do you score what the president has done so far, and what still needs to be done and prospects for that? well, you know, to kim s point, this is a guy who very often used the word quickly. remember that in the campaign, how we would say this or that is going to get done, and it s going to get done quickly. we re going to defeat isis quickly, we re going to fix health care quickly. he presented himself as somebody who had these extraordinary capabilities to transcend all this normal politics that has now come to bear. so to the ec tent that people are judging him harshly, i would say it s his, it s the expectation that he himself created. i just want to emphasize one point that we ve gone over a little bit here which is a real problem in this 100 days which is staffing of this administration. they are way behind on that job. they do not have the political appointees confirmed, not even very many of them nominated.
threatened/promised to hide out to hide as syrian refugees or otherwise, they ve promised to do that. they promised that they can do that. that they will just sort of blend in. i think were the words some of them used. mm-hmm. i mean we ve got to start taking terrorism seriously. why does hillary clinton refer to these terrorists as quote determined enemies in her speech in accepting the nomination for president of her party, which ultimately mm-hmm. was a failure. why did she refer to them as our determined enemies when donald trump refers to them as radical islamic terrorists who must be defeated. and not contained and not mollified. strong talk. the question is no question it helped him in the campaign. it s not just strong talk. it is at this point. because i don t know what your policy is go look at the website. pull it up i ve looked at it. nowhere on that website that is distinguishable from what we re doing right now in a concrete way. i m saying
on the latest terror attack. he s promising to end the war on isis quickly. what will you do that we re not doing now that will be so decidedly conclusive, and quick? in addition to what i ve already said several times, which is just stronger, better vetting policies, not looking the other way when there s evidence of of terrorism and wrongdoing. in addition, getting our allies more involved. you know, donald trump is constantly criticized here and elsewhere as oh, my god, look, he doesn t even have his evidence yet and he s saying that it s isis. he s been right every single time. and he s not saying it to be right. he s saying it to remind us that the world is a dangerous place and anybody who accepts this as the quote, new normal, is just not they re giving it well, as we await word on two more big appointments for donald trump s administration deputy secretary of state and press secretary cnn senior washington
to call all of the world in to watch and then make a mockery. that s how it feels. that s how i feel right now. reporter: the legislature is closed for the year. they are expect ted to reconven january 11th. there is no guarantee house bill 2 will be on the agenda. lawmakers tell me last night was the best chance they had at repealing the so-called bathroom bill. nick valencia, thank you. donald trump s former campaign manager kellyanne conway is now taking her talents to the white house. conway we are learning will serve as counselor to the president. this morning she is hard at work laying out donald trump s take on this latest string of terror attacks. he s promising to end the war on isis quickly. what will you do that we are not doing now that will be so decidedly conclusive and quick? in addition to what i have already said several times which is stronger, better vetting
weeks ahead? coming up, as we go to break, the problem is there s so many mixed signals? many, many. we are going to be isolated. we are not going to but an event will focus that. he wants a more powerful military and says he will wipe out isis quickly, and i think that s why the selections are so important. general mattis, and if tillerson is secretary of state we will have a disproportionate impact we will find out if there s irony there. morning joe is back in a moment.