high school. they were ten marines, two army sergeants and one navy medic. your thoughts on who we lost last week. well, maria, i can tell you for a fact that so many congressional offices and private groups have had to step in to save americans and to save our at-risk allies. we ve had to step into the void because the white house isn t leading. and we were in direct contact with some of those marines who were pulling grueling security during the day and then in their few off hours were in contact with us and actually going out and helping pull afghans in, into the wire and pull americans into the wire. that s the kind of sacrifice that they were making. but we still have americans out there. i was just in touch a few hours ago with americans outside the gate in kabul international, and they can t get ahold of anyone in there.
and the normal the professional leadership we have in the cabinet and in our bureaucracies, the people who were the experts and they don t know what to make of this. on the one hand they ll say well, we can ignore the president but on the other hand it s the president so i think the europeans are really they feel a sense of drift and what i noticed most of all in munich was that because the u.s. isn t leading, we didn t have a cabinet official speaking from the podium in munich for the first time in a while. sure we had the national security adviser, but he s not a cabinet official. second, the u.s., because there was no clear message of leadership, you saw the europeans arguing more amongst themselves so that will use this the way they want to use it for their own domestic reasons and to fight one another about the russia policy because we re not articulating a clear transatlantic russia policy and it bleeds into everything. we have a huge crisis in syria, the war in the middle ea
affected. the american people get the message. it s great to set up your news the tones and try to get across but the fact is most people are saying get something done. the american people elected trump independent chris: he did not lead on health care. he will not lead on a border wall. he will not lead on a budget. brian: isn t leading to say i want this wall and if not, i will shutdown the government. you don t like the leader but he is taking the lead. paul ryan says i don t want that. that s fine. you don t need three people saying the same thing. chris: i think the senate majority leader would disagree with his tactics. kat: the senate majority leader is not doing a great job. brian: mitch mcconnell has probably had his last straw with the president when he endorsed flake s opponent. he pointed out.
to fill the vacuum when the president of the united states isn t leading. you re saying this is because of president obama that he drove donald trump to say this? what i m saying is there s a market for someone to fill a vacuum to say things that are on the edge when the president of the united states is not leading and that we have a path to defeat this. there s a lot of candidates running for president now putting forth reasonable answers to this. what does the rnc do in your opinion? you were a leader in the party. what do you do at this point? this is where we benefit from having the leadership and experience of a three-time elected chairman. he handled this the right way. . he s the referee during this, so he s not going to get involved. however, when someone goes over the line, he s going to step up and say this is out of bounds, which he did, which was the right thing to do. in the meantime he s letting other leaders say this while he s being a good actor.