european force. who is going to provide the umbrella for that force? it presumably will be france. that s one of the big changes in the strategic picture that we don t talk much about. but it s come back to an earlier theme. when questions like that arose over the last two years, people called secretary of defense mattis and mattis talked them off the ledge. mattis is not here any more. he s not there to talk to foreign ministers, foreign defense ministers. that is part of why this next year will be so uncertain. there is nobody to pick up the phone like that on a question that foreign leaders trust. and you have to look back in order to look forward. with mattis in office serving
reminded me of the story about putting the frog in a pot of water, turning it to a slow boil. the frog not realizing what was happening and pretty soon it s at a full boil and the frog dies. yesterday, that frog found himself in a five alarm fire looking at the movie poster and all the other chaos that was raining around that white house. again, if if and it s a big if. if we had a cabinet that was filled with people with more character, so many that had character have been fired. if we had a house and a senate that took their job seriously, there would be people going up to the white house this morning saying, mr. president, questions abound whether you were fit for this office. if this continues, we are going to ask your cabinet to take a vote on whether you were fit for
house democrats armed with subpoena power and new found political capital plan to hold president trump to account. it is a divided government which this morning remains partly shutdown for the 13th straight day and the standoff could last for weeks. so frame this moment for us. if you take a snapshot of what today looks like, it would be very easy to say that this is the crossing of two paths, the coming not only democratic majority, but coming democratic dominance in american politics. you ve got the republicans on the run. you ve got donald trump right now being even more irrational than before, even more bizarre than before. so much so that there are two editorials in the wall street journal editorial page questioning his fitness for office. one, in fact, suggesting that the questions being raised more and more in their circles,
office sx office and invoke the 25th amendment. if any of the 44 presidents would have behaved that way, those questions would have been raised. if barack obama would have done that in 2013, republicans would have probably tried to start impeachment hearings. and rightly so. this is a man who obviously is not fit to hold the office. and we ve known that for a very long time. but he keeps giving, mika, a preponderance of evidence to those members of the house and the senate that will care that vote. he is not fit, he is not acting fit, and he is pushing foreign policy initiatives that are
one thing is for sure, mika. today, nancy pelosi will be sworn in as speaker of the house for the second time. the first time, of course, in 2007 and now again in 2019. we will see the exactly what happens, what democrats learned from their first four years in office. and i suspect those challenges are going to be great. yesterday marked president trump s first cabinet meeting of the new year. the department of defense is now run bay long time executive at boeing, one of the largest defense contractors in the world. the epa is being run by a former coal lobbyist. the department of health and human services is being run by a former pharmaceutical lobbyist and the department of interior