that s going to resinate. i think that something likes that he s going to have an easier time walking away from, contrary to expectation about the advisors around him. i think they re going to be realists, but i do think there is going there is a real risk as we move into this administration the more he looks like a conventional politician that his own base is going to be skbrup set. the wall as mentioned earlier, he has the authority to move forward with it, but he has to learn how to pay for it. he needs to go through the appropriations pros. and then he has to deal with potential environmental lawsuits along the border private property lawsuits as the wall would go through private property and native to the land in arizona as well. so a lot of hurdles. some people predict that even if tour go that route, there will
and a long back and forth with the briefers. 51 likes longer paper and not as much time back and forth with the briefer. we will see to what extent and how mr. trump does it. one thing we should caution on all of this, when we are talking to sources in terms of what the president-elect is likely to do, he is likely to have realists and hawks. that s the guy that will be driving his decisions. not so much names that are important, but you want to lock for people who are hawkish and realists. one quick final note. as of this afternoon, the transition team has not gotten in touch with the pentagon or the state department. steve? hans nichols, thanks for that. the president-elect is spending veterans day at trump tower meeting with advisers about the shape of his administration.
actions, like the potential invasion of iraq. there were many republican realists, very opposed to that action, worried that we d go the wrong direction. and there were many neoconservatives that were pushing bush to take that action and to sort of own the middle east in a way that we never had before. and i think what jeb bush is doing is he is trying to paint those skeptics as fringe elements. and they simply aren t. they included people like brent scowcroft, his father s best friend, something that hasn t come up much in a media discussion. so there were a number of people that were all of the same ilk, having concern. not necessarily blaming president bush for the 9/11 attacks, but very skeptical of some of the actions taken after. steve clemens, joining us from london, thank you very much. thank you, richard. coming up, martin o malley serenades the ladies of the view in his latest campaign stop. how are the other candidates courting voters today? we ll show you what s tre
taken, because of the concern of collateral deaths. so, that was another element to this story. but, yes, we were tracking him, far earlier than 9/11. so the republicans said at the time, it was a sort of wag the dog scenario, like the movie at the time. now, jeb bush, he s got an op-ed in the national review, titled, a a clear choice on national security. i want to quote a little bit from it. he said, in the latest episode of the reality show, there is donald trump s campaign. he has blamed my brother for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on our nation. that trump echoes the attacks of michael moore, and the fringe left against my brother is yet another example of his dangerous views on national security issues. is it really just a michael moore and fringe left position to say that george w. bush should have paid more attention? well, i think jeb bush is trying to paint that. the fact was you had a deep, i mean, a serious level, a deep fissure inside republican circles. those that were
repeatedly. repeatedly, repeatedly, time and time again he caved to his extremists. the ideological differences between him and the other camp doesn t make a difference. what makes a difference is they led him around rather than the other way. norm, how do you read this in terms of the path forward? is it effectively the end of what some people would call a blue state republican party and a red state democratic party or representatives from those respective wings? are we going to see those people elected to congress ever again? not for a very long time, alex. we have seen not just the sharp polarization and the regional divide take place the way it has but it s turned into tribalism and we re not going back from it anytime soon, and if we re looking ahead the republican party is characterized by basically a struggle between radical crazies and right-wing realists. and boehner was a realist.