jonathan, you re not a gun advocate or proponent, but do you see steps in dealing with gun control? absolutely. but to deal with this problem, it s not solely a gun issue. we have to look at this through very pragmatic strategiestrateg. basic risk management strategies. we have to dissect what went wrong. did the health care providers properly assess the individual of this individual and relay it back to the police? i think we continuously are looking at things from certain opti optics, from the educator s standpoint, the community leaders s standpoint. we need to start breaking down all the barriers and really looking at this who willisticly
general threatened to resign after the white house pinned all of this on him. he threatened to resign. what kind of pressure do you think he is under right now? and if it is true he threatened to resign, what is keeping him on the job? it is interesting the idea of opti optics. rosenstein is the person you want to even gender loyalty from because he will be an open line of communication. so you have a situation now where you have not only used rosenstein as a pawn, but what message does that send to him going forward if he s asked a question to make an assessment, how will he know his words are not going to be used the ability to undermine the president of the united states, perhaps. so you have the optics looking bad in russia. you have the optics looking bad in terms of being able to have people who are reporting to you or a part of other agencies
watched, especially the democrats, a lot of people were looking at the republican brand going, oh, my gosh. you know, what s happening inside the republican party? with this, this is a very big olive branch that i see with mitt romney coming to speak with donald trump. and you know what? there might be a really great place. and i agree with your other guest that the fact that mitt romney could actually be a very key connector. mitt romney could be a very good cabinet person. but, yes, i agree with you. this was this is it s good opti optics. for once, this is good optics. when end he was unfit, it was so believable. i mean, do you believe that he genuinely thought that? and if so, do you think he still believes it? i mean, your beliefs don t just go away in a few days. you can extend an olive branch, but do you believe there is a piece of him who doubts? i m not going to candy coat it for your viewers. absolutely. i think mitt romney was telling us exactly what he thought at
candidate he made in 1998 when he said james hormel was openly gay. hormel said he accepted the apology. chuck hagel hasn t been selected yet. given what happened to ambassador rice, the question becomes will the president get the cabinet he wants or settle for the cabinet he can get confirm? richard, bob, lizz and raul reyes. this is about chuck hagel and opti optics. it s the president putting one forward saying is this okay. when they say it s not okay, it pulls back. is that the problem here? it s what i think. chuck hagel needs to look back
that he s going to go after the leaks, but i m not sure if they re they call it the opti optics. it s sounding like the house of the borges. the leaks are like trump s hair. if it s real, it still looks bad. what does that mean? they re not working on the business of governing the country. no, you said searching out the leaks looked like trump s hair, even if it s real, it look bad. searching out leaks is bad? scaramucci is putting his foot down saying the leaks are stopping or you re getting fired. that goes all the way to the top. by the way, reince heads up, you re not above this i think i don t agree with the way they make it sound. like a healthy competition. when sharks are being born and eating each other in womb, that s healthy competition, too. here s what joe is talk