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and they got that. he was going to take care of them. but he was going to get that mission done. time and time again i saw him at the front, and i thought this can make an interesting book about how he led, even when you had policy chaos. we went through three presidents, it wasn t just president trump, president bush and president obama, all three of them took on more than they should have taken on. can we stop right there. let me open this up to both of you all. because as you say at the end, we live in a tribalized culture, if i talk badly about president trump, my relatives don t talk to me. if i talk badly about barack obama, i got other people who don t talk to me. it s just, we re so tribal, nobody seems to be able to step back. i want it talk about the last 19 years, because in 2000, we were really at the height of our power. probably in our history. we stood alone in 2000. the last 19 years, we had one
president can claim credit for something that was already expected to happen. in addition to the policy chaos, there s the blow back. sources tell nbc that the treasury secretary and the u.s. trade representative both oppose the move. business groups were not notified and relevant congressional committees were not even briefed. mitch mckconnell is withholding his support. we have seen other rank and file republicans oppose the mover all together. don t forget, this threat has the added risk of torpedoing the administration s efforts to ratify nafta 2.0. why was this hastly assembled threat rolled out the door? why now? it comes amid an influx at the border but also it comes amid a growing number of democrats calling for impeachment after
immersed in their own big domestic problems. netanyahu will certainly celebrate the movement of the american embassy to jerusalem whenever that happens. but the big issue that is up between the two of them right now is does the president essentially exit the iran deal and the deadline for that is in may. netanyahu has been arguing for it, but much like the policy chaos that we have just discussed about steel and aluminum, inside israel the military that reports up to prime minister netanyahu said the deal has been in place for the past two years and has actually meant that israel has not had to think about taking military action against iran because there is no right now, no considerable nuclear threat. and so you got netanyahu having to decide as he s pushing for this how far out ahead of his generals he can get. that s pretty complicated.
scandal has become so overwhelming and the policy chaos and confusion has become so overwhelming. in a way the white house, kimberly, is so divided on these economic issues. you have mnuchin on one side. the national economic council which is supposed to be an honest broker bringing cabinet secretaries together isn t functioning the way it was envisioned when first created. not at all, not in this administration. this is something we ve seen frequently, different sides or divisions within the white house pulling the president one way or the other. it seems he likes that in a way but it s tougher now because there are fewer allies in the white house as each new person departs. the president seems to have lost his mooring amidst all of that turmoil that he had in the past but at the same time this calling for this tariff that he did unilaterally saying he s going to do it is right in line with his campaign message. and i think at the end of the day, he likes to go back to what