he s now calling the shots. i just keep thinking of all the people who recently lost their security clearances, all the people who aren t in the room anymore, so that pull has gotten smaller. even if people thought jared kushner should have never been getting the presidential daily briefing, here he was a moderating voice. he tried to keep the president kind of in a moderate line. that s one person less that will be in the room when he s being briefed by john bolton. what is it going to be like when we have a new coalition of jared kushner, a hawk, with the financing of the mentality, you can tell he is, bolton is one of his guys, and who else is in this mess? who is going to say no, let s cool it here. well, a lot of the moderates have been on the outs with this administration. gary cohn is leaving, mcmaster, a moderate, you just said that and tillerson, of course. that was one of the big problems. the president last week when he was letting tillerson go, specifically cited his
is helpful because you can get your people in the president can do that. this is not normal turnover. this level of chaos and people getting fired on twitter and not knowing if the chief of staff will be there next week is not good for governing. a lot of my colleagues are happy to see tillerson go. he didn t allow to into himself with the workforce or invest in it. they are a little worried about pompeo. he expressed hawkish views especially in things like the iran deal. he did not put in a lot of credibility and diplomacy. in his confirmation hearing they ll be looking to see if he wants to be a diplomat or not. people have an open question about him. i thought it was poor form. he s secretary of state and i don t think you should be on the receiving end of a tweet to say your dismiss.
will be there next week, is not helpful for governing. i think at the state department a lot of my former colleagues are happy to see tillerson go. they know he was not close with the president. he also didn t do a lot toen dear himself with the workforce. they re worried about pompeo because he has expressed hawkish views on things like the iran deal. he hasn t put a lot of credibility and diplomacy historically. in his confirmation hear they will be looking to see whether he wants to be a diplomat or whether he will continue down this more hawkish route. i think people still have a bit of an open question about pompeo at the state department. chris: you sound like you want to say something. i thought it was poor form. the secretary of state has put his career on the line to be a secretary of state. i don t think he should be on a receiving end of a tweet to say you re dismissed. you want to have somebody who is reflective of the president and mike pompeo fits that bill.
hallelujah. to have the secretary of state fired and mbcmaster, national security adviser leaving in the same week or same month would be probably historic in terms of the chaos it would create and uncertainty about the national security team and who s in charge so i don t know what he s gauging in terms of exaggerated but that would be quite significant. there have been all sorts of reports about what mcmaster is going to do next, h is desire t have a fourth star. prospects of going to a think tank. a lot of things are aligning to seem like he s on his way out pretty soon. why do you want to take us to church, ken? why did you say hallelujah? because when you see tillerson go and, look, i have nothing against rex tillerson, but it s very clear that on things like the iran deal, he differed with the president and at a certain point, that became too much. well, mcmaster s in the same place, and mcmaster s been bringing in a lot of people who do not hold the positions trump
a lot of things are aligning to seem like he s on his way out pretty soon. why do you want to take us to church, ken? why did you say hallelujah? because when you see tillerson go and, look, i have nothing against rex tillerson, but it s very clear that on things like the iran deal, he differed with the president and at a certain point, that became too much. well, mcmaster s in the same place, and mcmaster s been bringing in a lot of people who do not hold the positions trump advocated for in foreign policy and national security during the campaign and there are an awful lot of us in the conservative movement who are not neocons who would love to see him go. think he is was a bad choice in the first place. and the fact that he s going near the secretary of state is quite secondary to removing people who do not have a good foreign policy perspective and program in mind, whether that causes consternation and discussion of turmoil or not, it s still better to remove