has put a whole bunch of people around who are ideological. obviously flynn and the things he s tweeted on, mattis, he s got a lot of ability to do things on his own as a secretary of defense. he can move a lot of assets around. unless trump tells him differently, i think what you re going to have with mattis is somebody who s essentially at the same time we re pulling away from nato via trump, maybe pulling closer to our defense commitments. elon goldenberg, i appreciate your time. coming up, why something so simple for the president-elect is and a key update on the inauguration. that s thing 1 and thing 2 right after this break. inauguration. that s thing 1 and thing 2 right after this break.
russian s hacking of the dnc server, trump s views on these things align perfectly with what putin s views are. he thinks the nato is obsolete, the eu is a bad idea and undermine institutions that he believes threaten russian interests so they are on the same page. whether through good faith or bad faith. that s true. they are on the same page. will say, the one thing that gives me some hope and trepidation, it s not clear that any of his nominees are necessarily on the same page with him. we saw last week, rex tillerson, mike mattis, pompeo reaffirming the importance of nato. they are not necessarily all on the same page. what that does tell you is that we have an incoherence in policy coming in. it s okay to have different actors with those positions but then you need a strong president
if you look at the track record at the white house, trump s team has put a whole bunch of people around who are ideological. obviously flynn and the things he s tweeted on, mattis, he s got a lot of ability to do things on his own as a secretary of defense. he can move a lot of assets around. unless trump tells him differently, i think what you re going to have with mattis is somebody who s essentially at the same time we re pulling away from nato via trump, maybe pulling closer to our defense commitments. leon goldenberg, i appreciate your time. coming up, why something so simple for the president-elect. and a key update on the inauguration. that s thing 1 and thing 2 right after this break.
things align perfectly with what putin s views are. he thinks the nato is obsolete, the eu is a bad idea and undermine institutions that he believes threaten russian interests so they are on the same page. whether through good faith or bad faith. that s true. they are on the same page. will say, the one thing that gives me some hope and trepidation, it s not clear that any of his nominees are necessarily on the same page with him. we saw last week, rex tillerson, mike mattis, pompeo reaffirming the importance of nato. they are not necessarily all on the same page. what that does tell you is that we have an incoherence in policy coming in. it s okay to have different actors with those positions but then you need a strong president who can actually take the time
this is the nature of espionage. the problem the question really is, it s not just about what s happened but about how you deal with it going forward. it isn t an easy answer. do you think that the russians see in donald trump someone who isn t interested in doing something about it moving forward? i think i believe in the kremlin. i m pretty confident in the kremlin. they still view president trump as on their side. whether right why wouldn t they? so do i? well, they they uls believe that we only have his body of public statements and if that s we dont know what has been said in some closed door meetings between the president of the united states and the president of russia. that s definitely what the russians think right now. you know, they believe that around president trump are a large group of people who are opposed to russia. that s probably true. mike mattis and so the question is, at what