policy, because what he hasn t before, clear from president obama, was a vision, a doctrine, and we don t really know what his is, and so if she is confirmed, she could have a tremendous amount of influence. one of the knocks on some of the selections, kevin har, hasn been a lot of diversity. five white guys picked. but now you have nikki haley. as bakari said, sort of this american story. and ben carson,it appears coming onboard? will this quiet critics? and talking to michelle rhee. let the process play out. only four picks in and nikki haley will be a heck of a u.n. ambassador. a hypercompetent successful governor stepped into the breach as we all know when the shootings in charleston happened and really brought the state together and the country together along with the victims families and brought the flag down. that was a real moment in this country s history and for racial healing. she now gets to go to the u.n.
than cordial. you probably remember, quite critical of each other during the election. seems to have changed, and a statement announcing haley to the u.n. ambassador to the u.n. president-elect trump said governor haley has the ability to bring people together for the betterment of her state and our country. discuss this turn e events joined by congressman adam kinzing kinzinger? what was your reaction, doesn t have a lot of foreign policy experience but also are feeling better, republicans are, because she s a little more hawkish than donald trump? a great pick. i mean, it shows, again, something that literally from donald trump election speech where he came out it wasn t like gloating or bragging. it was, there was a sense of humility of, hey, we need to come together as a country. we need to unite as a party and a country, and this furthers
us in florida. thank you. bring in our super panel to discuss all of this. we have bakari sellers, cnn commentator, former south carolina house member. kevin sheridan, former senior adviser to romney for president. carol lee, white house reporter for wall street journal wmp and washington post reporter davis nakamura and washington bureau chief for the daily beast. a mouth full. bakari, you have obviously perspecti perspective, someone from south carolina. you heard what jason miller said about nikki haley having experience doing basically trade negotiations. what do you hear about what must be a lot of surprise from people in your state? well, let me first say that i actually served nikki haley in the south carolina house of representatives. our desks sat side by side and i consider her to be a friend. i think jason miller wa oversells the experience quotient a tad.
we don t deal with the complicated issues our geopolitical foes as far as her as ambassador. i applaud myself by donald trump. nikki haily is a statesman, more than competent and nikki haley surrounds herself with good people. she s an american story. she s the daughter of immigrants, and i think she will serve well for young girls throughout the world looking for a beacon of light in this trump administration. i applaud him for making the nomination. all right. what do you think about this, carol? look at obama white house, and he s moved foreign policy, sort of this in-house operation. this is someone who could have a lot of influence, right? yes. definitely. u.n. ambassador has a lot of influence on the president. she will now have three women, if confirmed in a row. is in all of the major meetings and interesting to see how donald trump runs his foreign
going to paris to meet with russia and talk about syria. we just have a lot of these different conflicts that involve his children. evank k evank ivanka sitting in on meeting. we ll see how it plays out. thank you all so much. governor nikki heil haley major critic, called out trump on not releasing his taxes among other things. does this bridge the divide between donald trump and the never trump republicans? we ll be asking one after the break. plus it is the strongest chokehold yet on isis in mosul as iraqi-led forces surround the city completely. live on the ground in iraq later this hour.