first year? break it down. politically going into this next election in november, the tax cut. that s what the republicans will beat the drum on everyday till then and possibly save the house with that strategy. so that was his big decision. what about the mobilization of women? that s extraordinary. i m looking at the numbers we did last night and clearly the passion factor i think it s there if the democrats get the rallies going and resistance going, freshen that up to the election day, this could be a big shocker. i have a prediction and much to the chagrin of nerve 2015 mika said donald trump could win the republican primary, february 13, 2018, i predict women are going to win the house and possibly the senate back for the
we ll bo that at the top of the hour. let s bring in former nato supreme allied commander and dean of the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts university, retired four star navy admiral james trevitas, he s the chief diplomacy and security analyst for nbc news and msnbc with a minor on commenting on omarosa reality shows. that s important. we ll put that aside for now. good. good. i want to ask you about north korea. there have been hopes raised about our relationship with north korea, how short an attention span we have, vladimir putin was on his best behavior during the sochi olympics four years ago and then, of course, all hell broke loose after that. what s your read on what s happened over the past week in north korea? i wish i had a better assessment, joe and mika, but to flip the old cliche on the head, i think it s going to get better before it gets worse again.
were, we watched him for five minutes. the dow was collapsing, this porter story was just going out, he should have been destroyed and mika and i looked at each other and we re like, are we allow pedestrian ed allowed o say this guy s really good at this. sarah huckabee sanders was out of town. you all are telling me the most fascinating thing that the first highly competent person could go up and answer questions in a professional way without being conden scending to the press but also being very direct and not taking their you know what that guy got hammered by the white house for bad performance? that s like going four for four in the world series. we we could have done a better job. which obviously if anybody
match. leave me alone. i had an identical weekend. this administration leaks a ton. i love it. i m grateful for it. it provides this show with a lot of i think it shows how nervous people are. yeah. it also shows that despite trump s loyalty test he s surrounded by people that really aren t that loyal to him. if you looked at sarah huckabee sanders argument it s so silly. it s a very childish argument. what with she s saying is you guys are doing a really bad thing therefore you shouldn t get mad at us for doing a semi-bad thing. but it is pernicious in a way to say that everything is deep state motivated or the news is all fake because in the end, what they re doing is they re eroding trust in people who cover them. every single day. mika, so i ve been really involved in washington over four administrations. yep. about 25 years. um-hum. and i m just looking at the
they re in a position like that? a senior pentagon official who was part of the transition team could not get passed the white house vet for permanent job at the pentagon, why, because he had once retweeted something that was less than complimentary of the president during the republican convention. they bounced him out of a permanent job. they do have a vetting operation but it s all about who says what about the president, it s not about character or judgment, or about trustworthiness to handle sensitive documents. we were watching the first episode of homeland. we don t watch it all the time. i actually watched it. i actually got mika to watch it and it is it s about loyalty oaths. it s not about national security. it s about, you know, how much are you willing to obow down to donald trump. it s not about again being able to pass the most basic security