the president needs to coordinate with his own cabinet officials, just like with the russia story, before continuing with this, or north korea will continue to pull away from any promises. siraj, we were looking at those beautiful pictures back from the summit in singapore and this is part of the reason why previous presidents have not had this summit with the leader of north korea. big beautiful wedding, marriage in shambles. i wouldn t call marriage in shambles just yet. you have to remember that negotiations are still ongoing and mike pompeo is nuance on this type of policy and is probably the best decision that trump has made is making mike pompeo the secretary of state and getting rex tillerson out. tillerson would probably be do far worse in negotiations than mike pompeo ever would. still, though, the trump administration is not in a good spot to echo julian s point. the north koreans seem to be
were addressing each of the points in the story, a white house official said, well, you know, mattis knew that it was possible that trump may do something like this. but the president was in the meeting with the leader of north korea, and just made the decision. so he had to then inform another colleague, another administration official that told the defense secretary that this had happened. and you had to then find a way to prepare for that. and robert costa, it s the ad hoc way that this administration conducts foreign policy, there isn t a process, they don t have meetings to hash out these issues. this is not the way john bolton operates and not the way most importantly donald trump operates. it s also a reflection of the new dynamic inside of this administration with former secretary of state rex tillerson out of the picture. now secretary of state pompeo, national security adviser bolton, based on my reporting, are the president s real
distracting us from all the policies in my view many of them damaging that trump is pursuing. a lot was placed in these generals, general kelly, general mcmaster and general mattis. mcmaster is gone, kelly clearly has not brought much order to this administration. general mattis is the only guy hanging on there who hasn t really disgraced himself the way kelly did. so it is a mess right now. e.j. was talking, christina, about three individuals that a lot of people had put hopes on to try to rein in the president. the a.p. has been reporting for some time that kelly has been frozen out in large part because of constantly telling president trump no on some of the key issues. but when you have h.r. mcmaster out, when you have rex tillerson out, when you have john kelly now by some accounts maybe on his way out. he s definitely on his way out. you think so? official countdown clock? this is the bachelor meets
obviously now is in question, he is the one who got along with rex tillerson ideologically on a lot of things. a lot of countries around the world didn t like them. h.r. mcmaster went along with more conservative like iran. you heard jeff zeleny talking about john kelly. so what happens here? what you ve seen, and i think you have to basically go from gary cohen resigning to today. it s in the past two weeks we have seen these things. yeah, it feels like 200 years. go from cohen today, you ve severe overhauling of domestic policy, rex tillerson out, mike pompeo in. you ve seen overhauling of diplomacy broadly red.
places like south of pittsburgh. let s listen to what the president said yesterday, shakeup, rex tillerson out, mike pompeo going in over at state. the president stood there and talked about how he s getting his stride in terms of who he s surrounding himself with. i ve gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year. and i m really at a point where we re getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. getting have very close to having getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i should. who should be nervous in washington today? i think supporters of free trade should be very nervous. if you look at the people gary cohn was out last week. rex tillerson, one of the, you know, more internationalist members of trump s cabinet is gone now. the people who are staying are a lot more ideologically involved with him.