cnn also learned congressman, the director of national intelligence dan coats, who you just heard jim acosta report, might also be on his way out. what impact would that departure have on president trump s overall national security team? it is concerning because this president has a pattern of removing those who stand up to him or give him information which he disagrees with. he got rid of mattis because he was standing up to him and shanahan, there was the scandal that was in part leaked because shanahan may not have supported the president, and coats has had the temerity to sometimes question the president. so we see that the president just wants yes people around him. the house oversight committee held a hearing today on family separation and conditions at various migrant detention facilities on the southern border. lawmakers became very emotional and at times very angry as did the former acting i.c.e. director tom homan who was a witness. watch a little bit of this.
the crowd sizes and we ve seen what he s done at military establishments around the world where he s gone to either korea or germany and even japan on military bases and he s talked about his own election and what he s done for the country, we saw how even acting secretary of defense shanahan reprimanded some soldiers who were wearing maga hats going back to what chris was saying, this is not the protocol, they are not supposed to be political, those who serve in the military. so this is something he did it in front of the boy scouts as well so something he s done repetitively over the past two years. history suggests, quickly, whatever his plan is, if there is one, there is a speech written on the teleprompter, he gets up in front of a big crowd and what is the first thing look at this crowd. the biggest crowd. and all of the media. academy awards. so even if the plan, and that is what is coming out of the white house, it is not a political speech, when you ask yourself if
undertaking. reporter: that s a good point. one difference between mick mulvaney and stephanie grisham, is mick mulvaney if he s no longer acting as the acting chief of staff, he can go back to his first job which was head of the omb, office of management and budget, the director of that. the president clearly has a preference for actings. he feels like it gives him an advantage. he can keep these people on their toes. it leads to a certain amount of uncertainty at the staff level. the president seems to foster and enjoy that uncertainty. it also allows the president to move on quickly if he does decide to go in a different district. i think this was most acute at the department of defense where he kept shanahan as acting, and eventually shanahan withdrew his nomination because the president at the time needed his secretary of defense to do his bidding on saying using money from different accounts to build the border wall. it s something the president invoi enjoys. there are some leg
because i m not so sure there is a vetting process. i mean, look at what happened with shanahan. who was going to be the secretary of defense, and now he s not. i think that what you saw in these vets, which was so interesting to me, is at the very top were quotes from people, things they had said about donald trump. he said you re a bad guy. he said you re a con certify on t the presidency. they knew those are the kinds of things that donald trump cares about. and that remains until this day. so the singular vetter, if that s a word, in this administration is donald trump. and it depends on how loyal he thinks you will be to him, what things you have said about him in the past, and whether he thinks he can mold you into the kind of yes person that he might want. and so when christie was saying, no, no, no about, say, general
the middle east. exactly to your point the economic consequence could be staggering. a fifth of the words oil tra versions the straits. and japan relies on about 85% of the middle eastern oil. it has huge economic impact across the entire global spectrum. and i think it s a very dangerous place to be. we need a leader who navigates that better. we don t have a secretary of defrs. we had an acts one in shanahan. who decided to back away from the process. we have one in who is supposedly respected. this depose to planning. and walking away from the deal is without a plan. and not having a diplomatic back up and alien ating the allies. where does that leave us in terms of options without military? it is a bankrupt policy. and this is what congress should be focusing on. there is no real obtainable objective here. pompeo gave a list of 12 demands back in january. but they essentially mean iran wouldn t be iran. iran has to cut off relations with the surrogates around the world. forget