this is the importance of the to track strategy the us has put in place, the pressure campaign that prevents north korea from being a threat to the united states and its allies, nuclear return, missile defense, heavy sanctioning. it limits his capacity to threaten is that limit his capacity to build a substantial nuclear arsenal that could threaten us so that is in place, that is the safety blanket that protects us and allows the united states to pursue this negotiating track with some degree of confidence and not desperation because before they were desperate to get a deal because the north koreans will do anything to make them happy. the president is not falling for that trap. rob: it does look like a place that kim jong un doesn t have any intention of getting rid of his nuclear arsenal.
understandi ining he s not takee reigns yet. that the subpoena is off the table? does the white house have that comfort and confidence? you know, i don t think they have the confidence that it s completely off the table, they have more confidence than they did a couple of weeks ago and they feel like in whitaker, they have something of a safety blanket or at least a way to control the process more. and to make president trump feel like he s in more control of what s going on. but they know that the investigation s going to keep going. there s no plan as far as i know for whitaker to stop the investigation. if it comes to an issue of a subpoena, it s not clear that whitaker would oppose that despite the past statements he s made and despite what we ve been reporting. simply because he would be making that decision in a different context as the aktsing attorney general with much more visibility and so could potentially arrive at a different decision. but he, whitaker being in that job
reasonable investigator would do. i need the subpoena. what the president did in matt whitaker was, and this is your paper s reporting, two people close to whitaker said he does not plan to take himself off the russia case. he s also deeply skeptical of any effort to force the preside president s subpoena. by putting whitaker there it s my understanding he s not taken the reins of the mueller probe as of yet. the subpoena is off the table. does the white house have that comfort and that confidence? i don t think they have the confidence it s completely off the table but they definitely have more confidence than they did a couple of weeks ago. and they feel like in whitaker they have something of a safety blanket or a way to control the process more and to make president trump feel like he s in more control of what s going on. they know the investigation is going to keep going. there s no plan as far as i know for whitaker to stop the investigation. and if it comes to an issue of a su
after giuliani said that, he ordered an inspector general review and investigation to find out who was leaking to giuliani about this. giuliani we should point out very loyal to donald trump. after the access hollywood tape he was one of the few people to go on tv to defend him. i think he was on three weeks in a row. he was front and center when people were behind the curtains and reince priebus is saying to drop out of the race and giuliani was a strong supporter. one thing that does ken concern me is there is talk he may try to encourage the president to interview or testify with robert mueller. i think that is a big mistake given the president s loose association with the truth, i think that will get him into trouble. hopefully we don t get to that point and that is not an issue but i do think that giuliani as you say, he s a safety blanket for the president and we ll give him a reassurance but certainly not going to speed
what do you say to them? a lot of those guys are still supporting trump publicly because they feel like they have to. they are afraid of the mean tweet, going crazy rip shit bonkers on them. they are afraid of the legal consequences coming. they are afraid of the structural problems that trump is going to bring them in 2018. mike pence feels like a safety blanket. he feels like a soft landing for a lot of these guys. i don t think it would be that easy politically if pence gets caught up in the stipulate stream. i don t know all the information yet. we don t know how involved pence was hiring flynn as the head of the transition team. these things are really complicated right now for mike pence going forward. but the pack has certainly set off a lot of alarm bells. the other point being made in that question was, look, you are not getting anything done, there is nothing happening in this congress, there is no legislative activity whatsoever. there is nothing for us to cover