drawing attention to acosta s work on the plea deal. they add there was no substantial vetting done on acosta until after trump decided to nominate him. democrats and congress and as you might imagine 15 of the democratic presidential candidates are pressing for acosta to step down or be fired. republicans have yet to join in. there is growing pressure from other trump allies to move against acosta. this is telling. nbc reporting tonight that officials inside the administration including acting chief of staff mulvaney have had concerns about acosta s performance in his day job, his cabinet job, particularly his perceived lack of urgency on an acting deregulation. is this a foreshadowing. politico reporting mulvaney told trump on monday that the continuing drip of damaging information surrounding the 2008 decision would hurt the administration.
against acosta. this is telling. nbc reporting tonight that officials inside the administration including acting chief of staff mulvaney have had concerns about acosta s performance in his day job, his cabinet job, particularly his perceived lack of urgency on an acting deregulation. is this a foreshadowing. politico reporting mulvaney told trump on monday that the continuing drip of damaging information surrounding the 2008 decision would hurt the administration. indeed tonight mulvaney gave nbc news this response. we quote. i push all of the cabinet secretaries on the deregulatory agenda as it is a top priority of the president. that in no way should be interpreted as displeasure with any cabinet member including secretary acosta.t trump s relationship with jeffrey epstein is coming under
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said about this president a few years ago, and it s one thing to criticize a person s policy. he said he s not a good person. he s not a good person. and yet, now he s his chief of staff. that s what we ve seen many republicans have to do. they express reservations about donald trump, the candidate s character back in 2015, 2016. now that he s president, they are mostly terrified of his twitter account, they ve fallen in line. mulvaney is a perfect example. he s done a good job of cozying up the president. he has fallen in line with a lot of his core principals and ideology. mulvaney is someone people are revoo relieved was chosen for the post. they feel he s reasonable and has got hill experience. he s pretty well liked but can improve relationships there and
some of what mr. mulvaney said years ago has resurfaced. he used some harsh words to describe then candidate trump. do i like donald trump? no. is he a role model for two of my 16-year-old triplets? for my sons? absolutely not. yes, i m supporting trump. i think he s a terrible human being, but the choice on the other side is just as bad. to be clear, for folk who is may have been listening on radio who couldn t understand what he said, he said at one point he is a terrible human being. that s how he described then candidate trump, now president trump. what do you make of that, bill? can you go from just a few years ago saying someone is a terrible human to yeah, i m going to work for the guy and help him run his administration? apparently you can, craig. we have evidence before our eyes.