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now. hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york and 1:00 here in los angeles. she s not running. that was nikki haley s bizarre declaration as she sat alongside the president she served since the earliest days of his administration. h haley, former governor of south carolina, was once a fierce opponent of trump and backer of his primary opponent, marco rubio, who deferred sharply from trump on foreign policy. this being the time of trump, we glossed over the fact as her departure was being announced and she and the president lavished praise on one another in a display of mutual admiration, nickki haley was on of the administration officials suspected of penning the anonymous op-ped in the new york times a few weeks ago. but today, other than using her departure photo op to announce she would not primary trump in 2020, haley was all smiles. for all of you that are going to ask about 2020, no, i m not running for 2020. i can promise you what i ll be doing is campaigning for this one. so i
perhaps even a personal conduct level, that she was on the suspects list when the anonymous op-ped came out a few weeks ago. wrote a rebuttal, too. right. answering that whoever wrote the op-ped should have come public with their concerns or resigned. nikki haley is one of the most deft political players of the era. the fact that she was able to navigate what you just outlined that basically her foreign policy views are somewhat opposed to donald trump s, and she was actually anti-trump during parts of the republican primary, and then she goes into the administration and manages to be a huge star and leave with her reputation unscathed. much in very similar to dina powell who is being spoken of as a potential contender for the job. and i spoke to a source today who is close to nikki haley who said that ambassador haley is she wanted to control it on her own terms. that it made more sense than having it leaked which was a always a possibility because she had told president tru
op-ped in the new york times, in the woodward book, that a lot of people inside the government describe it as a two-h track presidency. he s allowed to watch tv and tweet but serious questions about american foreign policy, the grown-ups have their hands on the steering wheel. i ve always thought that theory was dubious. a unitary secretary, at the end of the day we call people secretaries. secretary pompeo, secretary matt mattis, secretaries for a reason. undermines their insignificance. presidents get their way. what the president especially gets to do is set the ideological tone of his administration. look, all of these u.n. speeches are world leaders speaking to their own people. they re not really speaking to the rest of very good point. merkel speaks to the germans. president speaks to americans. when he talks about america first, he is appealing to a very old, dangerous instinct that s always been with the united states which is a kind of idea that we can separate ours
something matt said in our earlier segment when we were talk bing about the fact that donald trump junior was saying everything s fine, he s not worried. that s what you expect. you expect people who said these things to mr. woodward to deny having said them. you expect people under investigation to say everything s fine, aisi m not worried. i remember mr. manafort s attorney coming out of court every single day saying it went awesome, up until the time he was convicted on eight felonies. this is what we expect. i m surprised truth doesn t just emerge, it s sort of tumbling out and feels like what bob woodward and robert mueller and the prosecutors in the southern district of new york, and, perhaps, the prosecutors involved in the manafort what they all had in common was they were purveyors in sort of the quiet but sustaining power of the truth. and the truth seems to be either in the anonymous op-ped, in the woodward book, in these feels like there are more and more windows in