personality clashes. the basic things like the way h.r. mcmaster briefs i m told grates on the president because of his style, because of his speaking style. still, it s not like he s kicking him to the curb. it seems as though they re trying to find a soft landing, a way that is not as untoward as what happened with rex tillerson. right. even james comey for that matter. yeah. paul, i should point out i think the president called the reporting earlier on this, from days ago, fake news about mcmaster, also i think he used that same term for reporting on tillerson and being on the outs over time. so two examples where fake news, of course, turn out to be real news as it has most the time. what do can you make by this decision by the president? the president is commander in chief, no one else, he has the right to have whoever he wants especially as his national
paula, i should point out i think the president called the reporting earlier on this, from days ago, fake news about mcmaster, also i think he used that same term for reporting on tillerson and being on the outs over time. so two examples where fake news, of course, turn out to be real news as it has most the time. what do can you make by this decision by the president? the president is commander in chief, no one else, he has the right to have whoever he wants especially as his national hey, paul, sorry, we got a problem with your mike. we re going to try to repair that. michael caputo, what do you make of it? we ve been hearing about h.r. mcmaster s days being numbered for quite some time. it must have been a really high number when they first started calling it out. you know, h.r. mcmaster came in after, you know, kind of a real kind of a debacle with general flynn and i think he gave the white house some stability. and i think, you know, also you have to understand that, you
operations. sources say there was no warning for mcentee s abrupt firing. the steady march out of the white house may not be over. sources say president trump is irritated with the embattled veterans affairs secretary david shulkin. another source says he s considering energy secretary rick perry as a possible replacement. and time is said to be running out for the national security adviser as well, h.r. mcmaster. mcmaster like tillerson has been opposed to withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal but he s pushed european allies to make changes to it. mcmaster and shulkin would be the latest in a string of administration departures. president trump said tuesday he s very close to having the cabinet that he wants. joining us to talk more about this is scott lucas. he s a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham here in the uk. first of all, on tillerson, the idea that he was fired on twitter, how damaging might that be actually to donald trump? i don t thin
appealing. that i have been discussed ad nauseam. what they have opened is general warfa warfare on north korea. so don t engage in that kind of rhetoric. use diplomacy, stabilize, stop threatening. use china, russia, sergey of state tillerson tried to move down this path but it s been blocked by the rhetoric. the united states has to understand what its objective is. we re not going to roll back the new york car program that are not going to give that away. there s so much he said, you know the secretary of state tillerson said but there have been mixed messages coming out of white house on tillerson saying one thing, the president saying another thing. have we been focused enough on deterrence, how do we get to this point? there is a lack of discipline
vote now and if marco rubio also votes no, there are more no voits than yes, sir notes. you have a negative recommendation come out of committee, you can still take it to the senate floor, but if marco rubio twor vote no, if you were to get a negative recommendation out of this committee on tillerson. look at what the rest of the senate looks like. look at the potential domino effect, the republicans have the majority, they do not have a lot of votes to spare. there are other senators, like blooub are hawkish on russia, hawkish on putinen. worried about the posture. lindsey graham made a noncommittal statement. there are others. if rubio goes, does mccain go, does graham do? do the other republican hawk goes? does tillerson have under 50 votes. the flipside of course, are there democrats who might then bail out the republican nominee, donald trump s nominee. think of joe manchin, heidi