this isn t just a president whispering in someone s ear saying i m telling you a rumor or this is possibly happening. it seems they were emphatic this is happening and sally yates went to the white house to tell them there were issues with it. this isabout just someone whispering and maybe you like the guy, maybe you don t. whisper or not it depends what that was and whether it was pressing and right to accept what president trump was being told. he may have thought it was not valid. i don t know. the question i had how would it behoove sally yates or a
trump who are in the president s ear saying, if not moderate, move in a less edgy direction. catherine, i have to ask another question about our business. you ve got passover, you have spring break for a lot of kids in school. tomorrow is good friday. we head into easter weekend. civilians get to look at this period of time and look at an opportunity perhaps to relax. reporters, on the other hand, we get nervous and shifty because good friday, any time over easter weekend, is a dandy time to drop a psonnel change, a negative news story. i assume the associated press is ever on guard. well, i will certainly be at work tomorrow. so, if there is a you and me both. if there is a news break, we will be ready. yeah, obviously it s a holiday, holiday weekend. you know, he also congress is out. so, things are a little quieter. but with this white house, we really can never stopwatching closely. this is a president who doesn t
[ applause ] that our great service members have the tools, equipment, training and resources they need to get the job done. as george washington said, being prepared for war is the best way to prevent it. katy tur is earning her pay today. she s still with us. you were listening to the boein event. you ve covered him for, what, a year and a half now. talk about the change in tone from yesterday to today. this was a very different event. we would see this on the campaign trail where he would go off at a rally and next day be back on message, back on prompter. that was mostly steve bannon getting in his ear saying, bud y time to get focused. you re going to lose this election unless you really adhere to a message as much as
overturned by the supreme court. i think that is separate from an executive action. i get what you ear saying. i understand. the president has done things like this, executive actions at a slower rate than george w. bush or reagan or carter. what he has done is so big and huge, his decisions are so big it is up to congress to decide these issues. he is doing what is called, what i think is an ad hoc line item veto. that s like a line item veto that is not allowed under current law. what we sere see something it s not just healthy for them. it s immigration, education, the environment. across the board. big decisions that congress is not getting to weigh in on. to john s point that this could take years and years to decide, they decided hobby
jong-un. because what rodman is doing is he s showing that everything is normal in north korea with all the basketball diplomacy. this just after the execution of kim jong-un s uncle and all of these regime figures leading pyongyang. should the u.s. try in some way? should we be trying to use this guy maybe some back channel, somebody gets in rodman s ear saying, ask this, or would it be a disaster? i think it would be a disaster. what s interesting is rodman wants to bring ex nba stars in and maybe we can talk to those people. now, the issue is whether anyone will be going for this exhibition game on january 8th, which is kim jong-un s birthday. why would they is my question. why would anyone want to go over there and celebrate this guy s birthday? the question there is well, you