said that he had a short list of three names after ratcliffe withdrew himself and he might name one of them on monday. that didn t happen. but some of the names that we are hearing, among them are the former nsa director mike rogers, former congressman sax bee chambliss and peter hoekstra. we re mull mike mulvaney is very much involved in the search and the vice president is lending his voice. but they re casting a wide set in terms of opinions. they ve reached out to richard bird, the head of the intelligence committee. that s going to be the first hurdle for whoever the nominee is. they re asking other people on capitol hill. they re asking other national security experts. time is ticking. one week from today dan coates is leaving, and not only that but the white house has not named an acting dni. the logical name would be sue gordon, who was dan coates number two.
viciously attacking him or personally attacking him, but these comments are inappropriate. and, frankly, the party ought to say it s inappropriate. so what? frankly, he ought to apologize for it, okay? it s not a big deal. i had to apologize to somebody that i did something inappropriate to. not that i m the saint of everything or the, you know, know all these answers, but it just takes a little i m sorry, you know. i was talking to peter hoekstra, the new ambassador over in the antho netherlands. i said, hey, pete, tell them you made i a mistake and you re there to learn. let s get over it. the parties, this is another symptom of the split between the parties. i think we can agree the language wasn t good. president is saying he didn t say it because he knows it was a mistake. the leaders ought to have something to say. every day there is another thing. this like reality tv, right? it s not healthy for our country
appreciate it. always fun with you. it s not fun here but it s always good to be with you. i appreciate it. lots more to talk about. president trump backing out of a trip to london, blaming obama for something george bush did and blasting the new embassy there, but he 3450i9 have been talking to the guy he pick today be ambassador before he went off on that tangent. we ll talk about that next.
much. here now pete hoekstra former house intel committee chair who served as national security advisor for the trump campaign and austan goolsbee. welcome. good to have both of you here. let me start with you, pete. you just listened to that conversation and to the statements by nunes and central s piece in the wall street journal today. what do you make of her argument? i think her argument is right on. i m sure devin has been clumsy going through the process. you take a look at this, this is a pattern. the democrats didn t show a whole lot of interest in lois learner and the irs targeting that took place there. when the cia director brennan, when he abused his powers, and investigated, and had his people hack into the computers of senator feinstein s staff on the intelligence committee, the democrats were silent. so i m not at all surprised that they don t really have much of an interest in to taking a look at what happened in the obama oval office.
elsewhere who are actively working to kill americans. the russian government is not trying to do that. if relationship goes bad i think we have to envision a possibility of more russian weapons going to iran, more russian weapons going to north korea. more russian weapons going to china. russian weapons going to the taliban. martha: fascinating. these are things to be quite concerned about. martha: paupaulison ders great to have you with us here tonight. backlash to house chairman devin nunes. who better to talk to about that than howie cutters. peter hoekstra and austan goolsbee. president trump warning that his upcoming meeting with the chinese president could get difficult at times. we will take a look at what s ahead. we can t continue to