overblown. it doesn t make any sense to me. steve, i ask you then, maybe it has been reported that you re in the mix for hope hicks former position. does this piece give you pause? are you auditioning? trying to figure out how you put a bow on white house chaos or staff turnover right now? because the president, sometimes he watches. well, of course he does. as well he, should right? by the way, don, are you trying to kick me out of cnn? i work for cnn, you want me to get a new job? i don t have the power to hire you or fire you, just want you to answer the question. he doesn t want to answer. thank you, angela. am i awe duditioning, no r. love to talk to the white house, i love advocating for this administration because i love what this administration is doing for this country and i ll advocate for them wherever i m planted, whether inside the administration or at cnn. here s the point i really want to make. despite the palace intrigue again, i ll concede there s more o
dealer or a doctor who overprescribes medication. public health experts do not support this. what is the evidence that it would actually have the intended effect of deterring people from opioid abuse? right. don, i agree with you here. i believe in the sanctity of life, whether it s an unborn child in the womb or whether it s a convicted drug dealer. i believe from conception till natural birth that life should be respected. so i don t believe in the death penalty. i don t think it would be a deterrent. i m very glad the president has taken this issue on. i think it s very important, and i do think his death penalty talk was a minor part of an overall strategy which i think was very good. but that particular part, i don t agree with. olivia, no doubt areas that supported the president as among some of the hardest hit places when if comes to this opioid epidemic, although honestly it s hitting everywhere. how does that factor enter in here? from day one in this administration, he
he doesn t have i don t think he has any intelligence experience in the intelligence community. so, no. look, i wait, wait, where s he going with this? i m not saying he s not intelligent. i get what you re saying. he doesn t have experience in intelligence, yes. yeah. so it would be nice if the guy doing this job had some experience in the intelligence community. having said that, obviously he s a skilled bureaucrat, he s going to run a big company, a big organization. so maybe it s not a prerequisite. i think i d probably feel a little more comfortable if the person doing this function where have you been, matt? betsy devos. ben carson. i mean, who has experience in the actual jobs that they have? who needs experience, right? even the president has never been a politician before, but he won. stick around, don t go anywhere. the president calling for the death penalty to punish drug dealers, but would that actually curb drug use?
dana, you re a huge opraha, fan. do you agree or disagree? i disagree with her on this. but i think from a communicatior standpoint, reality is she believes it. and there is a lot of people that believe this. it did not necessarily start with the tea party or anybody that was conservative or republican. remember a in 2008 during the clinton-obama primary in south carolina, the word went out that bill clinton was a racist. a yeah. the obama people hands off. t we don t know who did it. all but they know exactly who did it. they ve been using this as a political wedge for a long timeo how do we get beyond it?i it? really think you need a pern who is a leader that can be like a ronald reagan type and bring people together because we re not going to see it in the next three years. yeah. and it was the hillary campaign that had pushed the whole birth certificate issue. that s where it started, on democratic side. that s where you see some of the
guilty. that s absolutely true r. . t we don t know of evidence, you cannot definitively say there is no evidence. we don t know there s evidence mickey mouse colluded you re proving my point. no i m you re proving my point, no one knows that, except for the investigators i don t want to go down this rabbit hole, because no one knows. you can t sit here and definitively say there s no evidence of everything anything, because we re not inside the investigation and it has not yet been determined. if i may, of course we don t know. we don t work for bob mueller, we re not privy to the information. he is investigating. and so we have to wait until his investigation is complete and all of these protestations that there isn t evidence is simply a way of saying he shouldn t do what he needs to do to assemble any evidence that might there be that s really not fair because i never said that no, no i never said he shouldn t be allowed to do what he needs to