our attorney general and rest of cabinet? there should be ashamed of themselves. no wonder d.c. doesn t work. the democrats approved elaine chao. chuck schumer declaring because the white house is suffering a crisis of confidence. mitch mcconnell fired back, the democrats are fools because they haven t got over the election results. a reversal of february 2010 when president obama cut off john mccain in health care summit. with a less than gracious, you lost, get over it. let me just make this point, john. we are not campaigning anymore. the election is over. why your reminded of that every day. we can spend the remainder of the time with our respective talking points going back and forth. we were supposed to be talking about insurance. economist of the bestseller the great equalizer declared today that blocking a new treasury secretary is actually
their political will. is trump off his game or is he just learning how to play a new game? what he is good at is exploiting opportunity, right, and using it to melt with his own message. here he seems to be motivating his own resistance in a new way. this is taking a shot at political opponents. in another tweet this morning, he said, look what the democrats are doing. no wonder d.c. doesn t work. that s a hard case to make when the whole function of opposition for the last eight years was galvanized by republicans and they were open about it. it s interesting that he seems like he s missing his mark with these ironic, right, because it echos the complaints even when the republicans were in the minority, gumming things up and not making things work, and i think you now see president trump dealing with chuck schumer pursuing the same kind of moment. you are right.
i president obama could receive up to $20 million for upcoming memoir which is more than any other president. i guess he has already come up with a few options for the title. first there is fifty shades of grey . [laughter] then there is good night-uhh moon. [laughter] final there there is, of course, the sisterhood of the traveling mom jeans. unfortunate that he wore those. steve: the mom jeans. that s funny stuff. brian: good to see after nine days barack obama back in the headlines and did not slip by jimmy fallon. steve: that s right. did not slip by president trump either. he is already awake and tweeting this morning. he just tweeted in the last five minutes when will the democrats give us our attorney general and the rest of the cabinet? they should be ashamed of themselves. no wonder d.c. doesn t work.
correspondent john roberts is monitoring all of this and joins us now live. good afternoon as we are here in the brady briefing room awaiting sean spicer s arrival, should be in the next few minutes. the relation between the president, democrats on capitol hill has erupted into all-out war over what the white house claims is democrat slow walking the cabinet picks. here s what president trump tweeted this morning. when will the democrats give us our attorney general and rest of cabinet! they should be ashamed of themselves! no wonder d.c. doesn t work! this work erupted into full froth last night when the president fired the acting attorney general, one of about 30 holdovers from the obama administration, sally yates after she said she would not instruct her attorneys to defend this new extreme vetting executive order, nor did she even know if it was legal. sean spicer had addressed such talk at yesterday s briefing, almost seemed either prescient or foreshadowing in what he said.
removing the acting attorney general only hours before a senate committee votes on jeff sessions who is president trump s choice for the job. sally yates dismissed after sending a letter ordering federal attorneys not to defend the president s executive order on immigration and travel. the vote for jeff sessions set for the bottom of the hour 30 minutes from now. as we await that, kristin fisher starts our coverage live at the white house. good morning, there. the president took to twitter already. what is he saying this morning, kristin? president trump is furious with democrats for what he sees as their delaying the confirmation process for his nominee for attorney general senator jeff sessions. he tweeted out when will the democrats give us our attorney general and the rest of their cabinet? they should be ashamed of themselves. no wonder d.c. doesn t work. it comes hours after the announcement that president trump fired the person that was the acting attorney general