but it really already did strike me sitting in the town hall last night listening to john kasich say weather said that edisappointed as a former house member himself that the house speaker hasn t been more aggressive. you know, that says a lot. he s not the only one to say that. it s not just the house speaker. it s many, many in the rank and file that have tried at least in the case of paul ryan, remember, many times to stand up and speak out when he thought that donald trump did or said thing that was wrong during the campaign and he ended up with political egg on his face when he became the president of the united states. so i think that plus the fact that he still says he wants to try to get his agenda through is why he tries to step back. i think even he realizes they re no agenda to get through if you have a presidency in constant crisis. gloria, i hear you wanted to pipe in. yeah, if you look back at watergate, for example, republicans weren t exactly
and it s no surprise that when we highlight the studies, however controversial, among african-american leadership who are almost uniform in thinking irrespective of the evidence, that s no surprise. we have a political aprech to th approach to this and scalia has a legal academic approach. jeff, you want to pipe in. well, you know, you can certainly understand why african-americans and many others are somewhat surprised that antonin scalia knows better what s good for african-americans rather than, say, the naacp legal defense fund. that isn t what he said, jeffrey. come on. that isn t what he said. he highlighted academic studies showing these policies don t help african-americans and maybe hurt them. you talked about the big lie. it s not the big lie. the big truth is that the disadvantages that you refer to in terms of various legs up for whatever reason, be that you re the kid of somebody, you play a support.
hiss popularity. in so many contexts that even got him fired from the apprentice and the tv contests and it doesn t seem to affect hiss poll numbers. robert our panel is here with us as well, we would like to pipe in. i think actually this might finally, richard, start to bring in it s not going to collapse entirely, because there s 15, 20, 25% of republican voters who are going to vote for him regardless. but in terms of a ceiling on his supports, it s one thing in the republican party to go after mexicans, muslims, you have a demagoguery in that party that s acceptable when it comes to minorities. but most americans have swung they know or someone in their family what s disabled or knows somebody who it s disabled. but he know cow les i can, he knows them well. so donald trump is flat out
young americans in combat. you can t escape it at all, and clearly, a major gun fire operation that was going on. in terms of signing off on this mission, jim, walk us through a little bit of how high the authority went. well sh, it is interesting, because yesterday an announcement quickly from the white house saying that the president, himself, he did not sign off on this igs many, although he was kept aware and include manage the presidential daily brief, and the briefing that he gets every morning with the latest intelligence and he did not sign off on this mission, but it was defense secretary ashton carter who is going to be briefing here at the pentagon in a few minutes who signed off on this. that is the protocol for a mission like this, because it falls under that train, and vise and assist mission. it is not something new, something outside of that mission where the president might have to pipe-in, but it does show to echo rick s point, how quickly the advise and assist mi
directi director doug high and jeffrey lord. jeffrey, i would like to begin with you. you heard donald trump defending his comments about carly fiorina s face saying he made them as an entertainer. he is running for president. is he in your view acting presidential? sure. sure. you know, he is an entertainer in that sense. he was on television for a long time. towards the end of his term, president reagan was interviewed by i think tom brokaw who asked him about being an actor and being president. reagan s answer was something to the effect that i don t know how i could have done the job without it, without his acting background. in this day and age of television and mass communications, it does help. these things help. i think he was quite frank about it. i want to give you a chance to pipe in, doug. i saw you shaking your head. having an acting background is