understand the new media environment. under social media and the art of the deep tease and say, screw it. i don t care about all your niceties and traditions and established norms. i m going to play this game in a different way and it s the first person who has met trump on that playing field and has made him an incredibly powerful opponent to the president. he said on this show a couple days ago, the biggest surprise for him has been how weak the president s defense team has been. he thought he was going to be up against murderer s row. he said this is pretty easy for me. trump s management style is pure cronyism. the kind of people trump needs now, he doesn t know personally but he s not going to bring them in. you see goldberg and giuliani and this rogue s gallery of people he knows and that s why he hours a them. that s not going to be the best people. what rod rosenstein reportedly told the president that may have saved his job, for now. we re back in a moment.
a murderer s row of 19 prosecutors with subpoena power, money laundering experience, and on the other side you have two guys with yellow pads of post-its. manafort is the regime, rick gates is the made man and papadopoulos is the wise guy in the social club in brooklyn. if they flip, there is no telling where this could go. i think donald trump is beginning to realize that the walls are closing in. dan, the white house has said this all happened a long time ago, long before the trump campaign. does that necessarily vindicate anyone in the trump orbit? wasn t he supposed to hire the best people, have the best team ever? right. it raises real questions of judgement about the decision to hire manafort. people in and around washington knew he had been in bed with very sketchy people, dictators, people sort of on the margins of democracy. so it was a very strange choice
to john mccain, lindsey graham, marco rubio, the intense questioning of rex tillerson as secretary of state. the fact you have the fewest number of national security council staff members. now, a lot of talk that it s always been bloated in recent years, but they don t have directors, they don t have deputies. when there was a training exercise at the white house, i was there last week, they were just coming out from it, had you all of the cabinet and subcabinet, the entire obama outgoing team ready to train the incoming team and there was only a handful of people to train. they re not up to speed. all right. andrea mitchell with a rather dark assessment of the time that s going to start, the clock that s going to start at 12:00 noon on friday with the new administration. we ve been watching the briefing room on the left-hand side of the screen. we have seen the president s water and notes, his notebook brought out to lectern. you see murderer s row, the reporters, our murderer, kris
and other congressional leaders tonight. the president is calling from a clean funding bill with no strings attached. an official tells fox news there has been no break through in the standoff. and on this day future hall of famer babe ruth hit 60th home run of a season. a record that would stand for decades. ruth had grown up at reform school in baltimore. as the story goes, patience sent him there at age 7 for being a bit of a problem child. at 19 years old. ruth inked a deal with the baltimore orioles who later sold his contract to the boston red sox. from there, babe went to the new york yankees, eventually joining a fierce and batting lineup known as murderer s row. ruth s 60th home season would be go unhatched 34 years until roger marist bested him by one. 86 years ago today swung his way into history.
what was the reaction in congress as that unfolded? was there a sense of, okay, we ve got to do something, or was it sort of congress people throwing their hands up in the air saying, here we go again? it was no newtown. you know, people i think are almost aneuroedded to it because they ve seen what happened in the senate and the votes couldn t be cop ld together. on the judiciary committee, which i sit on, that s murderer s row. they all like their guns. in fact, there was a proposal there to have handgun permits from each state be honored by another state, even if they were less restrictive, and it overrode states rights, which is supposed to be like the 11th commandment of the republicans, yet guns trumped the states rights. they passed a federal law in the house to say all state handgun permits would be honored in another state regardless of the fact the other state might have more restrictive limits. so the guns i think guns trump bibles on that side of the