this is the agency you used to lead. i m sure you have heard a lot about mike pompeo s leadership of it. is he the right person right now to be secretary of state? well, obviously we ll find that out. mike pompeo, as far as i can see, did a good job as director of the cia. he certainly had the trust of the president, which is important. so i think it is important that he would have a better relationship with the president of the united states. secondly, he is more of a traditional foreign policy approach in terms of how you deal with russia and recognize russia as an enemy, how you deal with other countries. i think it s more in line with how mcmaster and jim mattis and john kelly, for that matter, all view foreign policy. so that s a plus. i think the big problem for mike
mistakes that new york state made in this war on drugs, where they disproportionately managed to penalize and imprison african-americans, inner city people who were drug dealers for a number of reasons, but letting off the suburban users. that s so right, andrea. it s not a law enforcement problem. it s a supply problem. but president trump doesn t want to go after the drug dealers and the drug companies that are flooding the market with these pills. and studies have shown that the problem is where the pills are. and you re going to make a lot of money sending them to small pharmacies in west virginia and other places like that ohio, pennsylvania, new hampshire. president trump has done almost nothing. he proposed cutting the budget from 328 million to 29 million. this is after a year ago wanting to gut the office completely. as you said, he appointed that
honest and much more direct in focusing on the threat that putin and russia constitutes. what they do in terms of assassinations, what they do in terms of their aggression around the world is all obvious to those who have paid a lot of attention to russia. putin has basically placed us in a new chapter of the cold war. and i think the president needs to recognize it and deal with that directly. leon panetta, thanks for joining us today from monterey. and one nation overdosed. president trump expected to announce his long awaited plan to fight the exploding opioid epidemic, but is it the right fix? you re watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. stay with us. a tip that ll crack this case wide open! turns out the prints at the crime scene- awwwww.did mcgruffy wuffy get a tippy wippy? i m serious! we gotta move fast before-
particularly the leadership. i have been dependent on independence counsel, it can be a slippery slope, director mueller is a standing of distinction. andrea you saw republicans speak out strongly, including sharm tray gowdy and other, lindsay graham bass very strong. so i think it s now under active consideration about passing some legislation just because of the events as you just outlined i think a month ago that would not be the case. pageing paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. you can bitterly add to the must pass omnibus bill a sense of congress, that it would be inappropriate to in anyway impede or interfere or short circuit this investigation. it s a little hard to actually stop the president from exercising his articles of power and at least get people on the record. i think republicans would hope they would vote for that. some said they have said that. not all of them have. if i were a democrat, i d think
organizations. so on the one hand, they re saying this is a witch hunt, it s a hoax, but on the other hand, they re using that very information, those findings to basically go after russia and in fact acknowledging there s something to this. indeed. peter alexander and bob costa, thank you both so much. wisconsin democratic congressman is offering andrew mccabe a job to help him qualify for his job. congressman, thank you very much. tell me how this would work, and have you heard back at all from mccabe? yeah, hi, andrea. thank you for having me. so we ve definitely talked to his folks this morning. we re hoping to have a personal conversation, but clearly this is a very legitimate offer. what the president did was one of the biggest, i think, character flaws that we see in him. he just lacks human decency. it was cruel the way he did this, to fire someone literally hours before they would have got their pension. so we need to be a check in the balance of this system.