two, holding a foreign country hostage to get them to do your political bidding is another. and then let s just think of this overall. in terms of international relations, you are sending someone who is not affiliated with the united states at all to conduct foreign policy with other governments whether it s good, bad, or otherwise. rudy giuliani, no matter how much i may think he s a joke or how much other people may think he s unstable, the president cannot send him or me for that matter to represent the united states in foreign matters. i just think why not? can t a president pick any envoy he wants? no, he can t, and he should not. first of all, you need to have security clearance. second, you need to be speaking with some authority besides the fact that, you know, the president gave me a wink and a nod to come over here, ask you to investigate joe biden, and by the way, we re going to send you those couple hundred million
how much other people may think he s unstable, the president cannot send him or me for that matter to represent the united states in foreign matters. i just think why not? can t a president pick any envoy he wants? no, he can t, and he should not. first of all, you need to have security clearance. second, you need to be speaking with some authority besides the fact that, you know, the president gave me a wink and a nod to come over here, ask you to investigate joe biden, and by the way, we re going to send you those couple hundred million dollars that congress has already approved. at some point we have to go back to the america that has high moral standards, that we obey the law, and that we don t skirt around the law. and, look, this is not as partisan as it appears. let me just ask you, chris, if this was barack obama, what do you think the republicans would be saying right now? and that s the major question. we have some republicans who
security adviser, john bolton and secretary of state mike pompeo, who is the president s right hand guy. we re hearing from a senior diplomatic source tonight, too, that lately there has been some tension between haley and pompeo. she hasn t liked things bolton has said. that could have gone into her decision today wolf. whoever the president nominates has to be confirmed by the u.s. senate. thank you very much. let s get more on this. democratic congressman joaquin co castro joining us, a member of the intelligence and foreign affairs committees. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. is there anyone in particular you would like to see the president pick to fill the role of u.s. am babassador to the u.? i don t know that he ll take my suggestions. but i think he should pick a seasoned diplomat, somebody who is going to go over there and will be able to have good relationships at the u.n. and also have good relationships with folks in washington. somebody, perhaps, like kat
with the interviews, it s hard to believe that the president is going to go along with this line of, we have more important things to be thinking about. well, you re right, anderson. and i think it s also true that sarah sanders would like to draw attention to the positive things the administration is doing. but who what worse person could the president pick than bob woodward to get into a credibility fight with? this is a guy who s literally published millions of words of prose, going back to the early 1970s, when donald trump was telling lies about his real estate endeavors, bob woodward was telling the truth about watergate. so, this is the wrong person to pick a fight with. and it s going to go on for weeks. we now have a million people having indicated they re going to buy this book. i don t see how the president gets out of this. jennifer, you know, about the anonymous new york times op-ed, is there any national
but look at the results, the economy and so forth and keep coming back to this. there was a time, anderson, as you know i thought they were whipping this up to distract us but clearly they ve let this thing go on so long they need to change course. we re 8 or 9 weeks here before the elections, democrats can only sit there and say keep going, keep going, just do what you re doing. michael, it makes sense for sarah sanders to say, look, we have important work to do, but when you have the president tweeting about this stuff, and as i said bob woodward, he s just getting going with the interviews, it s hard to believe that the president is going to go along with this line we have more important things to be thinking about. well, you re right, anderson. and i think it s also true that sarah sanders would like to draw attention to the positive things the administration is doing. but who what worse person could the president pick than bob woodward to get into a credibility fight with.