panelists here, george will, elise jordan. danielle pletka, you are an international affairs expert. since we are talking about policy with russia, i will give you the first shot at this. it was interesting to hear ron johnson call him an unfriendly adversary. you have made the case that the administration is tough. what about the president? does that matter? so one of the things that troubles me about the whole discussion on russia is that when someone in the administration does something bad, we all say, the president owns that. his administration. this is the trump administration. when the administration does something good on russia, all of a sudden it s trump probably disagrees with this. no. that doesn t happen in an administration. you do not expel 60 diplomats, impose sanctions, you do not do the things the administration has done if the president isn t okay with it. what he thinks in his heart of hearts, i have honestly no idea.
the camel s back, i don t know if cohn is in that position or not. there s so many reasons to leave this white house. there s so many reasons to leaf the white house, it will be interesting to see what the republicans on capitol hill have to say, if not specifically about this particular departure, just the disturbing number of, high number of people who are just i mean it s like they re being thrown out of windows over there, this is not a good thing, it s alarming and at some point our congressional leaders are going to have to comment on it. they can t act like this is normal, that this is okay, because then they loses credibility. we know this isn t okay, this is not normal. so somebody has to at least be honest about that. this is not normal and as john was explaining, this comes out of a policy making process that is increasingly and
he were to come back to broward county? zblie mean, if he were to come back, i really think that i would tell him, listen, like i understand that you say like how when i listen to his speech he said oh, if something like this happens, i m with you. my prayers are with you. but are you really with me? like you you need to do something other than your words mean absolutely nothing. you don t do if you re not going to put something to this, to change, you re not going to change anything. you telling me it s okay doesn t change anything. you need to like address that this isn t okay and put some control over these guns and change something in our policies where things like this couldn t happen. i understand it s amount of crazy people because no sane person could do this but letting these guns get in the hands of these kracrazy people is just -
a first step and needs to happen and if anybody votes against it i would be surprised. we need to be open and transparent. there need to be no secret deals and quite frankly taxpayer money should never be used with someone s behavior who were those people. it shouldn t be done in corporations either. it shouldn t be shareholders shouldn t be or corporations shouldn t get tax deductions for secret deals. the challenge for all of us, how do we change this culture? i don t know a woman across the country that doesn t have a story, and i thought okay, it s my generation. i can t a 21-year-old girl came up to me last week and said i m the waitress you talked about today, a 22-year-old girl, saying within an hour, my boss shut the door and told me to get up on the table and dance. this isn t okay. so men and women together have to come together to figure out how we re going to once and for all say this is enough, because
certainly a lot of very disturbing allegations and ethics committee and the leadership of the republican and democratic party have to make sure that this moves quickly, and people are stepping up to what s here, because it isn t okay, it isn t okay anywhere and david, what s really bothering me is we re focused on hollywood, focused on congress, focused on the media. we re not going to get real change or what s really wrong in this country is the waitress, the factory floor worker, the lawyer trying to make partner, the doctor, even a hospital. i cannot tell you, it has been hundreds of women in the last week who have come up to share their story, and we ve got to figure out yes, congress needs to act, what we re going to do next week isn t enough but we have to act so women are protected across the country at every level. what is the path forward for you then? he mentioned there will be a vote in the house new policies that could be put in place for capitol hill members and their st