when he took the position. then why did he take it? that s a great question to ask him. i agree with lauren. this is the interesting thing. in any other administration, this would be huge news. this would be on the cover of every paper. but that s not the case because this is something that the american people are so used to hearing already. so the fact is that rex tillerson, while he said some pretty incredible things, didn t make any news. he s corroborated everything we knew. on the leadership side, that s an interesting.that lauren raised. tillerson also is a former ceo. one of the differences is tillerson was a ceo of a successful company, donald trump was ceo of one that had its troubles in the past. julie: they re working for america not necessarily the man in the white house. but then to go and talk about the white house, or whomever is
doesn t even feel right to do this. that shows the humanity of this man beyond the political miscalculation based on where the media is going. he just couldn t understand how it s humanly wrong to do it. heidi, you have the human side of it we ve talked about. you have the political side of it we ve talked about. then you have the leadership side of it, the management side of it that we talk about. for those that don t know, everybody is talking to everybody. when four storms hit north florida, bill clinton was on the phone nonstop. the governors of the surrounding states were calling throughout the day. whether it s trucks to get electricity there, relief, what fema is doing, it s pretty much
the president has had this unprecedented move of removing security clearance from mr. brennan and many have objected to it for several different reasons and many including nader has said, well, this is just dead wrong. yet we have not heard a lot of the republican leadership speaking any collective about this issue either way. it seems to be like everyone seems to be on the republican leadership side, kind of ducking it or kind of playing it down. what sayeth thou, matt? i d say, first, it is the august recess. the house has been out of session. the members are not in washington.
do any developments surprise you. a new secretary of state is out of the gate quickly, on the middle east legg, the first trip abroad in the new role has met with the leader of israel and confirmed with his intelligence background having headed to the intelligence agency. and what we promised the rainy nuclear deal, and is not true. that is a huge story, on the israeli side on the american leadership side. heather: people suspected they were not following it, after signing the nuclear deal, and
we know there are gaps in the gun laws. we passed a bill to do that, and we think that should get done, clearly. let me just say this on it. we shouldn t be banning guns for law-abiding citizens, we should be focusing on making sure that citizens who should not get guns in the first place don t get those guns. that s why we see a big breakdown in the system here. there is a colossal breakdown in the system locally. let s get straight up to capitol hill and phil mattingly. phil, when you listen to the speaker, you list to whip scalise, pretty clear they re not willing to do anything at all. is there any clear path forward for anything significant? it also relays what i was told by a republican lawmaker about an hour ago. he said people have spent the last week talking about this as some kind of moment on gun control. they were wrong. now, he didn t say that in a taunting manner, more of a reality manner. when you talk about the house republican conference and you listen to where t