individual. sure. impressive guy, impressive resume in, the cia. will hurd vote ford this. that s how stronging this lure of sticking with the tribe, sticking with the pack is. and it flows from the top. paul ryan sent out the signal. we re going with nunes. everyone line up. we re not going to kick out none nunes. we re going to cleanse the fbi, probably the most horrifying phrase i ve heard in this latest iteration. and they take their cues. their money is going to come from their party. their support, getting republicans into their district to try to turn out their base. they have convinced themselves they must go along withing there bizarre shenanigan at the risk of national security, at the risk of their own if they have any left intellectual integrity. i also do think that there is something esgoing on here. and that is that they have genuine fear. they have genuine fear come
exceptionally bright talented individual. sure. impressive guy, impressive resume in, the cia. will hurd vote ford this. that s how stronging this lure of sticking with the tribe, sticking with the pack is. and it flows from the top. paul ryan sent out the signal. we re going with nunes. everyone line up. we re not going to kick out none nunes. we re going to cleanse the fbi, probably the most horrifying phrase i ve heard in this latest iteration. and they take their cues. their money is going to come from their party. their support, getting republicans into their district to try to turn out their base. they have convinced themselves they must go along withing there bizarre shenanigan at the risk of national security, at the risk of their own if they have any left intellectual integrity. i also do think that there is something esgoing on here. and that is that they have
does it bother me? of course it does. nobody likes to have low approval ratings. do i care? no. i know i ve done the best job i can and made a huge positive different for the people what was your biggest mistake as governor? hiring the people who focused s shenanigan at the bridge. what about having more control? do you regret that? listen, that s it s an independent agency port authority. it s supposed to be independent. i hired one of those people, just one, and i sent them over there trusting them to do the job. you don t think they were doing that for you? oh, i think they thought they might have been doing it for me, but they weren t doing what i wanted. when you look at, joe, at that time as you ll recall, we had
to weigh in on this. you have not only north korea, although that happened at the cabinet meeting and you also have this issue with russia and the expulsion of all these diplomatic staff members as matt bradley was still talking about. they still think they will have a relationship with vladimir putin at this point. can it? this is what the trump administration said why they wanted to avoid sanctions with russia. and regardless of and you can argue the counterside of that, we re trying to work with them. trying to work with them in syria and ukraine and north korea. it makes it very difficult diplomatically for us to work with them when congress slaps these sanctions on them. but their hand was forced. they had to do something. and congress, you know, rightfully felt they needed to act after the elections and the hacking and the meddling and the invasion of crimia and every other shenanigan. i think it was notable when we were looking at the cabinet meeting the two people at the fo
1979 between the leaders of taiwan and the united states. he said taiwan s president called him. taiwan said both sides agreed to the call beforehand. in any case, beijing was not amused. translator: it was a shenanigan by the taiwan side. it won t at all change the structure that the international community agreed upon. it won t change the policy that the u.s. administration s adhered to over the years. cnn s alexandra field joins us from beijing. she s been following developments there and what more do we know alexandra, about the circumstances with this phone call? well, natalie, we don t know what precipitated the phone call but we re hearing from a spokesperson that it was a prearranged call. that would indicate that the trump transition team and president-elect donald trump were not taken by surprise by the phone call even if the rest