and i just want to say that, you snow, hearing the president wanted to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum, maggie haberman is confirming the previous chief economic cohen warned the chief of staff john f. kelly he might resign if the president went ahead with the plan according to people briefed on the discussion. a former goldman sachs president had lobbied fiercely against the measures. what do you say to that, kiersten powers? i mean, wasn t this one of the main things that the president that donald trump ran on to become president, was his anti-trade position? it s a little strange to me someone will come into this administration and be shocked that he would do something that s anti-trade. uh-huh. listen, the president was also reportedly fuming and indignant, ryan, after his attorney general
what i understood you to be saying, don, is not that fox did not report that hope hicks was resigning. of course, they did. but that it was a major, major story that every news station was covering extremely aggressively and putting it into context and that fox was, frankly this is true downplaying it. that s the way i understood what you were saying. it wasn t particularly this, but they had covered it, though. that was a bad example and so apologies for that. but go ahead, kiersten, what did you want to say? i was going to say i actually think hope hicks is irreplaceable. most people are not irreplaceable. but she is somebody who is you know, anybody who has dealt with her, she is just sort of the sanity in the middle of a lot of chaos, and she s extremely competent, extremely professional separate from how she manages the president. i think she s somebody reporters feel like when i worked with her in the past she s reliable, professional and straightforward.
yeah. particularly with the due process where he just said if someone complains that someone s crazy, you go in and grab their gun and let the courts look at it later. yeah. and it s kind of a bait and switch. i guess some would think it is. but again, they hadn t decided on any policy. it was just them discussing what they would do and learning how the president felt about it. i want to move on go ahead, kiersten, quickly. i m not sure it s a bait and switch necessarily. i think he has views that are not in line with conservative orthodoxy and so he says things and i think these are really his feelings. whether it s about immigration, daca, gun control got it. then he runs into the buzz saw of politics and finds out
more breaking news tonight. senator al franken s office says he still hasn t made up his mind about whether or not he ll resign amid sexual harassment allegations, even though an announcement about his future is scheduled for tomorrow morning. this comes as 32 democratic senators have now called on franken to step down. senator kirsten gillibrand was the first when she wrote on facebook enough is enough and then she spoke out at a press conference. senator franken is entitled to the senate ethics investigation process, but i don t think congress is equipped, i don t think they have the tools to do the kind of accountability that the american people are searching for. i do not feel that he should continue to serve. everyone will make their own judgment. i hope they do make their own judgment. back now with the panel. there is a possibility, kiersten, that he won t resign tomorrow. do you think that s a real possibility? i think it s a very slight possibility. i think the expectati
in the communications job. but to change a communications director this close to election raises a lot of eyebrows, poppy. it does indeed. marty savage, we appreciate the reporting. thank you. app ry april ryan, tom bates, and kiersten powers joins us. tom, let me begin with you given your position there in alabama. what do you think after seeing marty s piece and from all the folks you talk to. do voters care what trump thinks about moore, or do those other republicans who spoke out against moore carry more weight? i think marty did a good job of capturing where we are now. trump s statement yesterday i think will give some voters cover to vote for roy moore, but right now both candidates are fiercely focused on a small segment of republicans who