i happen to know him. it was whitney at the time and he wanted to make clear to the white house that he was differing with the department of justice on some policy and that was by long tradition, and so i think that tradition has continued and so trump, his attorney general might have to wrestle with a problem. harry says he doesn t think they would breach the policy agreement on no indictments. i m not sure if there is anyplace that would be tested out of the southern district. john, christie weighed in on the former white house counsel don mccann who he says is a friend cooperating with mueller. watch this. i will tell you this, that was forced by the lousy legal advice that the president got to waive privilege to the white house counsel and i think it was dumb advice at the time. it put don in the position where he had to give all that
i recall when the u.s. attorney for the southern district called me as counsel to the president. i happened to know him. it was whitney north seymour at the time, and he wanted to make very clear to the white house that he was differing with the department of justice on some policy, and that was by long tradition. and so i d think that tradition has continued, and so trump his attorney general might have to wrestle with a problem. harry says he doesn t think they would breach the policy agreement on no indictments. i m not sure if there s any place it would ever be tested, it would be out of the southern district. john, christie also weighed in on the former white house counsel don mcgahn, who he says is a friend cooperating with mueller. watch this. i will tell you this. that was forced by the lousy legal advice that the president got to waive privilege as to the white house counsel. and i think it was dumb advice at the time.
policy-wise if you ask republicans. democrats are not going to be happy with his policies and that s okay. but does it s mainly his personality. and can the policy agreement, account things that those republicans who support the policies, can that overrule the personality issues? if you want to break it down to be that simple. we will see. like i said, it s 2018 and we re coming off the heels of a blue wave in the house. we have a red wall in the senate. so after everything has cooled and we get in to the middle of 2019 as we get closer to 2020 that s when we needs to worry if poll numbers like these keep resurfacing. right now we re coming off the heels of a very heated midterm. i m glad we have had such a close midterm because it means more people, red and blue, are voting. i m really happy to see more people are getting involved.
it s about building a stable framework that will contribute to the stability. it s not about securing a policy agreement, but it s about building something new that will quell all of our concerns. these two men help build some reporter rapport after working together. mr. trump saying he wants to make decisions in a very short period of time while mr. macron saying he wants some time. there are two options, either keep the obama deal or scrap it altogether. the significance today, macron seems to be opening the door to a third way. martha: thank you very much. we are watching as you see the red carpet rolled out at the white house, so we re going to go back and forth here with the live events unfolding at the white house. i want to bring in general jack keane, senior strategic analyst and chairman
there has been in the past considerable area of bipartisan common ground around the idea that america locks up too many people too long too high a cost. that appears to be where jared kushner is coming from. question remains is that something that he can persuade his father of and that something that the administration, including the justice department, can get behind in a meaningful way. right, father-in-law, because his dad puts this in a different way with the reports of kushner. that s a whole other thing. very different, obviously between jeff sessions and jared kushner but the white house says they have been working closely. so is there a middle ground here? i think that s obviously the question. working fr sometime. talked about it at camp david. i think also looking ahead to this year, year going into midterms they might be looking to find some areas of policy agreement. vincent, let me go to you for