wants, to have him rather than say a george mitchell at the other side of the table. so don t underestimate that possibility as well. israel has its interests here and prime minister netanyahu is a strong leader, ask nd it may in his interest to have someone who doesn t have the stature and history that past u.s. negotiators have had. of course. but i want to talk about the labor secretary nominee, andrew puzder withdrew from consideration as the president s nominee for labor secretary. he ran into a buzz saw of opposition from democrats, but he was losing republican support as well. he had a lot of issues, but this definitely didn t help him. watch this. because once i made that break, and once i made it public and, and remember, my ex-husband was a public figure, everyone knew him and knew what he was doing, and once i made that public, he vowed revenge. he said, i will see you in the gutter. this will never be over, you will pay for this. so that was his ex-wife
all very jgermane issues. not the end of the story but an answer on that. what the president is trying to say here remember, i have no axe to grind here, he doesn t come on the show. some say he doesn t like me. that s okay. there s not enough balance out there. by all means, report on these negatives. he winces at the negatives. these are the facts four weeks into this administration. some of the biggest controversies to date include the resignation of general flynn as national security advisor. and the labor secretary nominee, andy puzder imploding and then he had to find a replacement and also the court blocking the travel order and the back and forth on that. what is important to point out, i can say this as a business nerd here, look at the
hour, we are expecting around 12:30 p.m. eastern time. he is expected to take questions. of course, there has been a lot going on this morning. he will announce the new labor secretary nominee after his official pick bow it out, andrew puzder ran into bipartisan opposition as we know. we are expecting questions to be taken. in the midst of so much going on coming out of the white house, this could be a very interesting news conference. adam housley is on the couch with us right now. what do you expect to hear from the president? he did sort of indicate when he was sitting in the room earlier that this was going to be a news revealing conference. adam: obviously, he s going to put somebody forth that he thinks will be great for the job. i m curious to see if the media breaks out from just about nominee to some of the other issues that they continue to harp on and hit him on. the fact that it s a solo press conference, as you said, harris, i ve got time, i got a half hour, let s just c
pointed out who has been through the senate confirmation process. aren t going to be surprises here. he should vet well. and the cabinet gets more diverse with this pick. i don t think it s enough to change the subject if you are the white house right now. they do i think, chris, that the ground has softened. you now have senate republicans fighting beyond mccain and lindsey on who gets to investigate russia. before it was let richard bird do it. i don t want to get involved in that. now that suspect the case. you had this you had almost a dozen ten at least eight to ten republicans who were willing to buck the president on this labor secretary nominee earlier. that is evidence that the ground is starting to soften. and yes, if you don t soften if you don t dry that ground in a hurry it will become political quicksand. do the optics help him at all. i was thinking about during
play out, how these intelligence investigations play out. i do think there s a lot of noise that comes out of a lot of these events with the president. you know that better than anybody. the on-the-record statements he makes about this particular issue are ones that are potentially going to be replayed over and over again in the context of these investigations. they go forward. so, putting those down on paper is critical for the work of the contest up here, particularly on the senate side. they ve already said they have a willingness to investigate mike flynn and what happened in the context of their broader investigation. chris jansing, you ve been in that room for other presidents. it s very different. unlike any of us has ever seen. look, let s not pretend this was anything but what it was. it was billed as, i m going to introduce to you my new labor secretary nominee. who wasn t in the room. nowhere to be seen. not in the white house. apparently not in the white house,