it s almost purposeful in nature. you have to contemplate, people who work in the intelligence community, just like people who work in the military, work in the state department and journalists who work around the world, they risk their lives, they risk the lives of their families, they risk the lives of their assets. and they do this for country. when you have a man who has never risked anything in his entire life to be sitting on some ivory throne someplace and talking about this without any true understanding, any willingness to be as ignorant is possible is simply outrageous to those of us who work and continue to work. there is beyond a tone deafness. there is an ignorance in the way donald trump has talked about it. clapper hit that today. he talked about how skepticism
and so many other things of far greater importance. we all were watching and saw amanu s reporting, what s this day one of congress and he s unifying the rank and file with two tweets, jim? reporter: unifying them or knocking them upside the head. sure. reporter: i think this under lines there are no limits to being tone deaf in washington when you consider the fact that republican house leadership was against this idea of putting the ethics watchdog under the purview of the members up on capitol hill. and that tone deafness was felt all the way up at trump tower, that s why you saw the tweet saying really, is this the first thing you have to tackle, the
we haven t talk today eye in you in a while. i think all of it is that donald trump has proven he is reluctant to change and often takes things to the absolute edge. it is extraordinary but he is in the process of putting together the federal government but takes time out to tweet about the hamilton actors and talk about snl and handle his private business. the ethical tone deafness of this is a concern. this is going to be a gigantic distraction and a problem. if the you know, if the word of the year in 2016 was post truth the word of 2017 might be cl keep tok ra si.
approval rating amongst registered voters is at just 40% there. can he move the needle? i think that finding reflects the kind of tone deafness that he s had on the terrorism issue in the last few months. and he tried to address this in an oval office speech. not very successful. it was his second kind of unsuccessful effort to get in tune with where the american public is on this issue. you will see him make a third effort in the state of the union to convince people that he is responding appropriately to paris and sanbernardino. that will entail a good chunk of that foreign policy part of his speech. why is it a week earlier? why a week earlier? you know, i m going to say something we don t say very often on television. i don t know why they are doing it earlier. jonathan alter does not know.
other than carpet bombing. no. republicans have no alternative. they don t want ground troops. if they wanted ground troop, then we have a debate. but that s not the position of squabbling republicans. the advantage the hillary clinton has, she and the president sound like adults. the republicans sound like children. the democrats are not responding robustly enough to the fears of the american people. and the american people sense kr correctly that what we ve been doing has not been working. and have been look for some kind of a change in strategy, and they re not finding it. so somehow there s a little bit of tone deafness that s going on here. erg she says sounds good. it s adult, it s necessary. but insufficient. and, you know, it just sounds to me like you ve got to say something, so we ll just say the