president-elect trump can do is take those head on, and with appointments demonstrating he s listening to other pragmatic, or moderate voices, he can allay some of those concerns. the task of governing is a very big challenge right now, so i think he has to send that message to some of our strongest allies he s working to apply some of those concerns coming up, the trump cabinet will be taking shape, but will contversionial picks be appro d approved? there is no typical day.
announcements do not include treasury secretary or his chief economic advisor or some kind of special manufacturing zcar, or across the rust belt to the cows come home, know the first blank the president-elect seems to cover is the rarnl one, meaning these controversial picks. i don t think you d be wrong to read into that what you wish. he s a liberal columnist. do you think rust belt people really feel about these disappointments? no, i think they re care about turning the economy around and things like that, and that s how d period willing judged. the most important decision is selecting mike pence as his running mate and to be the vice president, that s a mainstream conservative. he s got reince priebus, joint chief of staff, a republican mainstream kind of guy and
the responsibility for these picks. when the party endorses and puts them in office, the republican party has ownership, and with the consequences to go with it, senator sessions, case in point, they re going to be highly controversial, and the center of the political storm for a long time. general flynn is said to be hot-headed, and was fired by the defense intelligence agency, the d.i.a. and has tweeted some alarming remarks about islam. fear of muslims is rational. poli please forward this to others, and in the next 24 hours a dare arab worlds they are sick and must be healed. are you concerned about this choice?
absolutely. from his point of view, not mine, i just want to hear him talk, and what he has to say is it s about the economy stupid, it is back to the most basic aspects, about delivering jobs, prosperity. from his point of view that is clearly not a racial divide at all. as a matter of fact, jobs benefit everyone. so as carl bernstein said in the last segment, maybe issues of race and gender, and religion are off the rad are if you look about the picks, rather than issues of civil rights. i think absolutely that s true. i think liberals and the media
have had about where this administration is heading once it gets into office. and it s these choices are will be reviewed as a repaidiation of president obama s picks. it doesn t get more hard line than the three he just named. pompeo represents the tea party, which donald trump owed a lot to. i was doing your show when jeff sessions stood on a stage in alabama. very few people wanted to stand by donald trump. there was jeff sessions giving him 110% right out of the gate, so all three of these are predictable picks so it does leave the secretary of state chip to be the one we re watching for. senator jeff sessions accused of using racially charged language. at one point he didn t get a federal judgeship. i just watched a report about that and remember it from the