and one other thing i think is worth noting out, worth pointing out with regard to representative cummings is that there is a really interesting piece in the atlantic by peter nicholas who talks about the relationship that cummings and trump formed early on in trump s presidency. that, to me, doesn t sound like a man, a president who thinks that i lee elijah cummings is at or is this terrible public servant, i think it s really political opportunistic. opportunistic and maybe we have seen in the past how the president turns on people who he once liked. so jeremy peters, kimberly atkins, matt gorman, steve kornacki, much appreciated. police are still trying to figure out if a second suspect was involved in last night s mass shooting at a california food festival, four people are dead, including a gunman. we ll go live to the scene where
your friend and colleague maggie haberman tweeted this tonight. goppers and trump supporters saw last week as one of the few good ones of his administration. consider instead of continuing any momentum the week is instead likely to be about nikki haley and the president s house guest coming up this thursday, kanye west. jeremy, have at it. i don t think anyone wants me to talk about kanye west, so i ll talk about nikki haley and the political ramifications there instead, brian. what nikki haley has done here really and this is not lost on any republican in washington that i ve spoken to, but any republican, period, she s kept her political reputation intact by leaving before the midterms, which are likely to come to a rather unpleasant conclusion for republicans if they were held today. she avoids that taint of looking like she s leaving on a bad note.
the other candidate is a top aide to national security adviser bolton when efls at the u.n. as ambassador and bolton was a recessed appointment, never confirmed by the senate, just likes the united nations. he s defended angela merkel in germany, but is very close to bolton and well thought of by the president. so jeremy peters, when the president said today nikki haley made the job more glamorous, i m going to assume that wasn t a comparison so adlai steven sson. what do you think he meant? i think that s a safe bet. look, how trump views success is through image. when he looked at nikki haley, he saw someone who fit the part. he is somebody himself who has said he picks people from central casting. that s part of why he picked rex tillerson for secretary of
does lindsey graham have a place in your administration after well, lindsey s a terrific guy. i think wants to stay right where he is. i would. but i think he s really happy. lindsey has really stepped up in the last two or three weeks. i thought it was fantastic. lindsey is a popular guy, and jim is a popular guy. i think those are two people and nikki doesn t have that in mind. the tim he was talking about there is tim scott, the other republican senator from south carolina. tonight trump hinted at his thinking on haley s replacement. he said he has five people on his short list. among them dina powell, a veteran of the bush 43 administration and a former goldman sachs executive who was trump s deputy national security adviser until late last year. let s bring in our lead-off panel for a tuesday night. andrea mitchell, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent. also of course the host of the noon hour eastern time every weekday on this very network. jeremy peters, politi
how many people have left this administration on good terms with the president, even though she has, in the past, disagreed with him on some issues? you pointed out russia. and sitting in the oval office with her own moment without any kind of tension with her script, and that s the way she wants to leave, before the election, which has an uncertain, you know, outcome certainly for the republicans. this way if she leaves after the election, there is going to be a lot of departures. she would become a footnote in the resignation or firing of jeff sessions, and the sort of checkerboard of people leaving. now she has a full day or more as the lead story. and jeremy peters, andrea raises so many interesting points there. number one, how few have come away from this crowd with their reputation, a, burnished but b, even undamaged. and it occurs to me that nikki haley and dina powell are two of those names on that short list. also, jeremy, let s stick up for the new york times.