worry about the sanctions. this is important and i know the president is focused on talking about the lying press but he should worry about those in his national security apparatus that lied to him. strong words. i want to turn to immigration. big issue domestically. president obama when he was in office signed an executive order that made it possible for 750,000 young people brought to the u.s. illegally as children to stay and work in this country without fear of deportation. during the campaign, president trump vowed to repeal that order. he now says he finds that situation, though, to be very difficult. listen to his words on friday. the daca situation is a very, very it s a very difficult thing for me because i love these kids. i love kids. i have kids and grand kids and i find it very, very hard doing what the law says exactly to do and you know the law is rough. listening to those words, it sounds like president trump may
trump seemed to be eager to reengage with his core supporters after what was a bumpy week in washington that saw him fire his national security adviser for lying to the vice president and also growing calls for an investigation into alleged ties between his campaign and russia. meanwhile, vice president mike pence, he headed to munich, germany, where he saw to reassure european allies of america s commitment to nato, despite president trump s harsh, sometimes dismissive words for the alliance. let s go now to munich, germany, where ohio governor and former republican candidate for president john kasich is attending the munich security conference. governor kasich, thanks for joining us. i want to ask you, the conference there, a lot of world leaders, many others, what are they saying to you about president trump? well, the interesting thing is, jim, is what they re saying we can hear from the vice president, we can hear from general mattis, we can hear from general kelly but we re n
the national security adviser sits as the chairman of the of one of the four committees, the principals committee, one of the four committees that keys up the issues just before the full nsc where the president is present so the national security adviser has to have direct access to the president of obviously you keep appropriate people informed. the vice president, the chief of staff and so on and so forth but that relationship has got to be very strong and very direct and i think the national security adviser has to have the confidence of the cabinet members and has to be fully aware of what their views are on each of the important subjects that are being discussed so access and confidence, trust and confidence on the part of the president far national security adviser is absolutely key. i want to turn to the deployment of u.s. by the way, there s a wohl
strategic thinker. it s got to be someone who understands the coordination, the strategic coordination is very important and above all someone who can resist and cause the nsc to resist getting involved in the tactical operations of our efforts around the world. let me ask you this. beyond qualifications, it s our reporting one reason vice admiral bob harward turned down the job this week is that it wasn t year the chain of command was. he wanted a direct line to the president. there s some questions about the role that steve bannon plays in the white house. how crucial is it for a national security adviser to be in effect in charge of these issues? have a direct line to the, have his or her own staff. how important is that to being successful in this job? i think it s very important.
to work at it hard. i don t question their commitment, but there are so many different elements of this. foreign relations, where i sit on, could be looking at foreign policy vis-a-vis russia in the effects that it has in this regard. you could be looking at it an intelligence angle. you could be looking at it from a judiciary angle as it relates to the election process in this country and how russia tried to affect it instead of having dispirit elements, a commission that is committed ultimately i think would be the greatest course. in the absence of being able to create one, because i think those calls have been rebuffed by the republican leadership in both the house and senate then we need to vigorously pursue it through each and every one of these avenues. ties to russia ended the career of a national security adviser this week as you know, in an interview last month with the fbi general flynn denied he had discussed u.s. sanctions against russia with the country s rams dorr befo