immigration. a lot of it goes back to secretary nielsen and what john bolton said about her. he was really empowered as a national security adviser about didn t have to answer to john kelly like we saw h.r. mcmaster do. we ve heard repeatedly that president trump doesn t mike arguments. but at what point, i m not sure that s really point, but at what point does it start to negatively impact governing? oh, i think if you have a situation that basically bolton and kelly aren t speaking to each other, that would definitely hamper the internal operations of the white house. i do think there s a new element here, anderson, since we last visited this question, and that is that president trump has introduced the notion of sending troops to the border. u.s. troops. that is something general kelly, coming out of his military background, is likely to oppose very strenuously.
irritated him. so that s why it was a discussion, that it facilitied that a fight like this could break out. but how could john kelly and john bolton agree over immigration. a lot of it goes back to secretary nielsen and what john bolton said about her. he was really empowered as a national security adviser about didn t have to answer to john kelly like we saw h.r. mcmaster do. we ve heard repeatedly that president trump doesn t mike arguments. but at what point, i m not sure that s really point, but at what point does it start to negatively impact governing? oh, i think if you have a situation that basically bolton and kelly aren t speaking to each other, that would definitely hamper the internal operations of the white house. i do think there s a new element here, anderson, since we last visited this question, and that is that president trump has introduced the notion of sending troops to the border. u.s. troops. that is something general kelly,
appearance on good morning america and it was pointed out to me that that week-long scandal, this week-long scandal basically bookend the kelly regime in terms of symbolic debacles. this person also tried to make a case that under reince, nothing that bad happened but i m sure that s debatable. what are you hearing about i know kelly s defenders working the phones today making the case that he really had no idea the extent and sort of the credibility that the photo was really what changed his thinking about the seriousness. but what are you hearing on sort of the finger pointing front of all this? yeah, i mean, i think the difference here between the incident you referred to before and this is that here, the president and kelly aren t necessarily on the same side. look, there has been a change here in the way that the president, according to our sources, think about kelly. you know, he was brought in here under this narrative of, you know, he was this kind of horse in shining arm
who is the person is key in these conversations besides the president himself? i asked the vice president that. the answer is the vice president. he s fully ready and on every option on the table. the defense secretary has briefed him. i believe the vice president along with general kelly, cia director and of course h.r. mcmaster prop vied a very experienced going back even better than the reagan was when it comes to national security affairs. i did get the sense from the vice president there s not a meeting that goes on that he and the chief of staff generally kelly aren t involved in.