that he may or may not trust angela merkel is understandably causing germans to get very nervous because germany is one of america s closest allies. you know, it s the comments about american allies that it s truly i don t want to say head-scratch, but head exploding reactions for diplomats in europe, but even here in the u.s. and, again, republicans. keep in mind, wolf, you and i were listening to confirmation hearings last week of all of donald trump s senior national security appointees who diskbrae wi disagree with him on this issue. mattis talking about how essential nato is. what s happening here? he has an enormous disconnect. it s not even a disconnect, but a diametrically opposed position with his appointees and every republican in congress. it s inexplicable. it s hard to figure out what message he is trying to send. you know, and jim, listen to
all of now which are going to be in question, same as the 200 that preceded them. this is not a service to the entities that have brought their cases before the nlrb who are now going to have to litigate everything if the supreme court upholds the lower court ruling, takes the case and then all of the cases in which there s been a ruling will not only have to be cited upon by a further court, in this case it should be the supreme court to come to a quick resolution, these companies, these unions are all going to have to relitigate, retest every one of these issues, and meanwhile, we are watching a confirmation process unfold in the senate on two appointees, national security appointees that the secretary of the department of defense, and the head of the cia, john brennan, they are in a stalemate here. we have just written what looks to be a death nell for the nomination of chuck hagel,