national deputy security adviser to be fired, and nothing happens? well, there is so many things to the unpack in that, and it is the first lady as you went through, and she had influence on staff decisions, and there has been intentions in the past, and usually it is handled qui quietly. like everything with this administration, staff shake-ups in general are usually handled pretty quietly, and all of this is very out in the open, but the most extraordinary thing is that the fact that mira ricardel is still employed in the white house after the first lady issued an unprecedented stateme statement, and one school of thought on that is that her boss john bolton is currently out of the country, and that is perhaps some decisions will be made once he is stateside. that would be a big co complication in that the deputy is in effect the national security adviser given the time zones, and he is in singapore, and so he is on the other side of the world.
abby: main role for members of his team is not about them individually. not about their egos. not about them winning every single time. about making their boss the president look better. so it s in on them to figure out how to move forward. it sounds like in these reports, president trump said you guys duke it out. you guys solve this. i think that s exactly right. i think what the president said. you know what? candidly, staff decisions should not be brought to the president s level. that should be done at the staff level. this there is a step i have between two individuals, three or four. they need to get behind closed doors sand say what are we doing to move the president s aend da forward today. what are we doing to make sure we fulfill the promises that the president made on the campaign trail. all these discussions about staff shakeups that should never take place in the media i never remember when george w. bush was the president all the intrigue about andy card who had been t
message sent if it s bannon. if he is the chief of staff, what message does that send? again, we re basically not even 100 hours out from one of the most historic elections in modern history. i think there will be plenty of time for mr. trump to make staff decisions and people for him to articulate why he has chosen different people to carry out various roles and implement his vision. so, i don t want to get the cart before the horse. we ll let mr. trump make those decisions as to who he will ask to serve in his administration at an appropriate time. sean, at the outset of the program i said he s my president. you know, i am of the opinion and i would have said the same thing if it were hillary clinton today that he is deserving of a fresh start. let me ask you this question, do you think that he has an obligation to be conciliatory? i ask that question because the likes of pat buchanan and rush limbaugh say, hey, we won.
modern history and i think there will be plenty of time to make staff decisions and for him to articulate why he s chosen different people to carry out various roles and implement his vision. so i don t want to get the cart before the horse. we ll let mr. trump make those decisions as to who he will ask to serve in his administration at an appropriate time. sean, at the outset of the program, i said, he s my president. i am of the opinion and i would have said the same thing if it were hillary clinton that he s deserving o f a fresh start. do you think he has an obligation to be conciliatory? i ask that question because the likes of pat buchanon and rush limbaugh say, hey, we won, we ve got both houses, and you know, let s go full on now with our agenda. there s no need to be looking leftward as we advance. what do you say? i think tone matters. and i think mr. trump struck