briefings aren t needed. are you going to do away with those? it s not a question of getting rid of certain things. maybe we add certain things. i believe we will have daily briefings. maybe we add an element to them. maybe not everything is on camera. maybe we bring more people into the process. there s an amazing group of folks. what do you think about this potential changing of the daily interaction with the media? i have never seen a guy work so hard before his official job has started. sean has hit the ground running. we re missing the big story here. did you hear why bob corker didn t get the secretary of state job? because he was short. did you see this? donald trump was concerned that at 5 7 , he couldn t be secretary of state, even though churchill was 5 7 . you know who wasn t? bin laden was 6 4 . i have a theory.
talking about democrats. general petraeus is being considered for the secretary of state job at one point, saying if you talk like this about muslims or you lump them in with islamists, you run the risk of helping recruitment. and they worry that donald trump, his rhetoric is going to have a strong effect on that. that s right. one of the things that donald trump is going to need to begin to recognize, and it doesn t look like he s quite yet, is how much weight your words have when you are president of the united states. not only domestically, but internationally, and words have effects on your relations with other countries, your words have effects on things you were trying to do as president. donald trump doesn t really have a filter. he uses imprecise language. he hasn t even mapped out for us the exact plan he has in place for muslims coming into this country, muslims who are already in this country. he s been really vague by what
that would be a real departure from his relationship with the state department in the past. you know, he is an experienced leader at a high level. he knows how to do that sort of thing. whether he has a conviction that he wants to make the state department really his own or just stay up there on the seventh floor and deal with the white house and run around and negotiate with foreign leaders, which i think is more likely. jeremy? you talk about one institution that s had a profound impact on his life and that is exxon. the other institution i think that has really informed his world view has been the boy scouts. can you talk a little bit about how that has shaped him as a leader and what he has picked up from the boy scouts that might change the way that he approaches the secretary of state job? i take it at face value. he was an eagle scout. the values and integrity and the sort of mantras of the boy scouts shaped his sense of how a person should live in the world, and i think o
that, then i will salute his presidency. but he is not doing anything, anything at all, that suggests that that is going to be the direction he works in and moves in. in fact, his entire cabinet is full of billionaires and ceos of big companies. who know how to make money. they know how to reduce wages and create profits by shipping jobs abroad and squeezing wages and fighting unions. that is not helpful to working people. robert reich, jeffrey lord. thank you. to be continued. meetings at trump tower and dinner in a fancy restaurant notwithstanding mitt romney didn t get the secretary of state job. now we re looking the back story about what some folks around donald trump wanted him to do that he would not. that s next. [ sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i m so stuffed up, i can t rest. nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don t unstuff your nose. they don t? alka-seltzer plus night liquid gels fights your worst cold symptoms. plus, unstuffs your nose. oh, what a re
they know how to reduce wages and create profits by shipping jobs abroad and squeezing wages and fighting unions. that is not helpful to working people. robert reich, jeffrey lord. thank you. to be continued. meetings at trump tower and dinner in a fancy restaurant notwithstanding mitt romney didn t get the secretary of state job. now we re looking the back story about what some folks around donald trump wanted him to do that he would not. that s next.