come together to try to solve difficult problems. when nikki haley talks about our sovereign choice of declaring jerusalem the capital of israel, she s not wrong. that was the choice by the president in general but the other countries have sovereign rates to state the opposite. one of the things that came out yesterday that people need to remember, these other nations that voted against us, weren t just voting against us. they weren t simply trying to rebuke donald trump. they were also restating for themselves, for governments and their peoples longstanding commitments that they have made as nation states to prior u.n. resolutions that determine that the final status of jerusalem would be the outcome of negotiations between the parties. and that a two-state solution was still the thing to be desired. of course the united states is now, by doing this look, we all recognize jerusalem even prior presidents recognized it as the capital of israel.
looked at so closely and trying to sound the alarm that they are on the right track somehow. any president is susceptible to the argument from the outside from advisers and friends that your problem, your political problem is your aides are not serving you well. this president is more susceptible to the argument than most. there is something to that in the accepts of the white house being more kay chaotically staf. in alabama, 93% of the people who disapproved of donald trump s job performance voted for doug jones. they gave the democrats this extraordinary 18-point advantage in the generic ballot, one of the largest i have ever seen in polling. roughly 85% of the people who disapproved of donald trump said they were intending to vote democratic in 2018. the problem they have politically is not the white house political office. you have a president with a
anymore. the united states needs cooperation from allies, partners, and friendly nations to get things done around the world. you know, one of the things, if you look at the president s national security strategy, he really focuses on homeland security. that is a good priority to put up front. one of the ways you secure ours is by help to go secure the population of people living elsewhere around the world. that s why foreign aid and assistance is so important. if you can make things more stable, those problems won t migrate here at home. he is basically spinning in his own eye here. to rebuke, publicly rebuke through nikki haley s speech yesterday, the allies and partners for whom they need our help and we need those. afghanistan, pakistan voted against us. do we think we are no longer going to send them aid? exactly. john kirby, thanks so much. have a good weekend. you too. if he covered it, you knew the event mattered.
the surface where he s, you know, very humble and kind of, aw, shucks, folksy, he is very ambitious and has been for a long time. i talked to people he knew in college, one of his former frat brothers, who told me they knew he wanted to be president back then. this is somebody who has a deep sense of personal ambition. maybe is a little bit more calculating. he is all tangled up in his faith. he doesn t just want to be president. he doesn t want power. he believes it is god s will. he was called into the realm of politics. god has placed him by the right hand of donald trump. when you start to think about yourself and your career in those terms, it s easy to kind of compromise a lot of things and justify a lot of things because you think ultimately there s a bigger plan being made. this is very interesting. very quickly, trump s perception of mike pence was not always
that will be interesting, joe. thanks so much. we have cnn political analyst ron brownstein and jeffrey toobin. nine hours from the deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. it was a closed door meeting, but a few things leaked out. let s just remember why this whole thing is an issue. part of the mueller investigation involves obstruction of justice. did they fire james comey because james comey was not cooperating with him in limiting the russia investigation. one of the key conversation also that comey testified about was his interaction with the president where the president asked him for loyalty which comey said made him feel very uncomfortable because it seemed