he said that there was a list of 25 names that his administration cobbled together and he had a short list of about five, though he said he would interview six or seven people, and there are two women within that list of five. here is more from president trump. i want you to listen closely to this exchange. i ll be announcing where are you leaning? we have great people. we have 25 very outstanding people. look, i like them and i will, but i ve got it down to about five. any women on the short list? yeah, i do have a woman. i have two women on the short list. we have three women on the court now. i have two women out of the five. reporter: so in that exchange with reporters, you hear a reporter ask what about amy, a
she just said we re going to take them at their word that they weren t speaking about president trump because they didn t name him and in the past, they ve been blunt and would mention his name. that s great if they want to think that way, but it is impossible for anybody who heard either former president s remarks to not think they were covering and talking about the state of political affairs in donald trump s america right now. they clearly were. and the white house clearly didn t want to engage in that. they really wanted to let that pitch go buy by. like i said, i m waiting to see if the president maintains that posture. it was interesting in the briefing, you heard a reporter ask sara sanders about when the last time president trump spoke to president george w. bush was, and there wasn t a clear answer on that. our understanding it would be sometime ago. there was not this open channel between president trump and other presidents, especially in unusually with presidents of his
meeting, was quote the calm before the storm and refused to say what that meant. here he is. maybe it s the calm before the storm. what s the storm? we have the world s great military people in this room i ll tell you that, and thank you all for coming. what storm mr. president? you ll find out. so, you heard a reporter ask if the president was referring to iran when he talked about the calm before the storm. do you think president trump will go to war with iran, is that a real threat or risk? no we don t think that the context was iran. i don t think it is iran. notice the administration has done a lot of the storm and the result has been all the
response went almost perfectly when eight people died? the response of the hospital went very well. they showed up. they re across the street. the handling and the triage was done extraordinarily well. you heard a reporter ask, there was no 911 calls when they had dead bodies there. they want to know overnight why weren t they checked on. i was it a staffing shortage? was it a problem and they re going to investigate that. this is president trump coming back from florida. he was down there. you saw mike tobin telling at the top of the hour. he was in naples. he didn t go to the keys, but the president made it very clear that in fact the florida keys are being taken care of. we have ample resources down there. we know there s military ships that are working, dropping off
the president called for unity then. do these tweets not undermine that very important message? she went back to her key argument. that the president would fight fire with fire. as you pointed out, a number of inconsistencies in her statements. not only did president trump talk about this on the campaign fwral this notion that he is being criticized in a way past presidents haven t been criticized isn t trooflt i tried to say that he argued that president obama wasn t born in this country so he engaged in the very sharp criticism before he took office. you heard our reporter ask a very personal question. look, sarah huckabee sanders has three kids. she talks about them from the podium. what will she tell her children? what should parents tell the their gharn the president s tweets today? sarah saying only god is