they worried about not only ratings but what was happening to the evening news. where was the audience going? ratings are down. they were making progress on the cbs morning news. right. with why best this morning. a lot more money. which is longer, has more ads, more money. and they were making progress with john dickerson at face the nation. and i m also told very strange relations between scott pelley and cbs news david rose was not the guy who gave pelley the job. beyond the personality clash, which are often a factor here, look, you worked in cbs. i covered the story when katie occur i can got the job. a big star at abc. now one of the victory network anchors gets dumped, and it hasn t caused. of a ripple. what happened? what happened is what happened to television, to the evening news broadcast as a centerpiece. there simply are no more
and yes, on the one hand, a personality clash. but it is also a battle for the direction of the trump presidency. and just how true to his core campaign convictions president trump remains. and if you measure things by access, maybe we should or shouldn t, jared kushner travels to iraq with the chairman of the joint chiefs and steve bannon is getting moved off the national security council. yes. jared kushner, the rules don t really apply to him in the same way. but certainly it has been a feature of trump s political organization during the campaign. in the transition, now the white house that there are rival factions and you can measure sort of who is up and who is down by how close different members of those rival factions are to the president at different times. jared kushner, the rules don t necessarily apply to him. he is first among equals. he is the one who decides which rival factions and which are the
for part of a work it out session on friday. 81 days into the trump presidency, the one constant has been rumblings about turf wars and policy battles. the president told them to work it out and cut it out. so it s done, right? everyone got their wrist slapped. the president could have said one of you is out of here and clearly they decided not to go that out. it s almost like they don t want to a major staff shake up end of the of the first 100 days. i think you are seeing very different factions on policy. it s not necessarily a personality clash like we ve seen in the past. steve bannon stands for very different things than jared kushner and worth different than reince priebus. it looks awfully good for him that he looked over his shoulder and said you go make them play
they don t want to alienate hispanics because they believe in the long-term, that s the future of the party. there is a major personality clash going on here, too. mcconnell and ryan are people referred to each other by their titles and they wear ties to work everyday and donald trump, i guess he wears a tie to work everyday as well. he refers to people by their first name. he s calling his colleague, secretary wilbur. the way these people interact it is like oil and water sometimes. sounds like mr. ed. thank you casey hunt. mitch mcconnell spoke out against water boarding after trump reopens that debate on torture.
just those issues alone, it is going to cause a lot of clashes. yes, a lot of donald trump s populist agenda contrast directly of what conservativ conservatives these guys are fiscal conservatives and they are big on bordered security but they don t want to alienate hispanics because they believe in the long-term, that s the future of the party. there is a major personality clash going on here, too. mcconnell and ryan are people referred to each other by their titles and they wear ties to work everyday and donald trump, i guess he wears a tie to work everyday as well. he refers to people by their first name. he s calling his colleague, secretary wilbur. the way these people interact it is like oil and water sometimes. sounds like mr. ed. thank you casey hunt.