asked about this when it was threatened and he tossed it off as he s just trolling people. he didn t take it seriously. based on history i mean, we all could have, right? when you re saying this is, in fact, freedom of speech and the first amendment could ultimately be a national security issue, you re right because it calls back up something we ve discussed a number of times, the president wants to surround himself with yes men and women. he doesn t want to be questioned. whether that be by someone questioning him on television or around him so it gets back to the point of this president trying to get rid of sort of anybody who in any way he perceives to be criticizing him or who disagrees with him and that does have chilling ramifications. it could, no doubt about it. it s just hard to separate how the president would feel about this absence the russia investigation because as i read his words in the wall street
does not perform well on 60 minutes. and last but not lease, defense secretary jim mattis even makes the list. so who could be next to go? i think we got a hint from the president himself. you know, we have general kelly here, four star. and he is doing a great job in washington. i think he likes what you do better than what he does, but he is doing a great job. he misses you. that was a kiss of death. donald trump likes yes men and women. mostly men. at the end of the day except for his new caa director. we don t have anywhere near the amount of women we need in the white house to have quality in terms of senior positions. anybody who disagrees ultimately with the president perfect example. gary cohn the other day. he didn t want tariffs, he left. the president wasn t going to budge. so at the end of the day, he says he likes infighting.
quite sure if she is really the right person to unite the country maybe a more experienced a moderate politician might be better but then again what do i know i m not even american so my vote doesn t count we re not boring and we ve had the insights is a good way is a good way to look at this too will have to see what happens as we move closer to two thousand and twenty that s for sure our correspondent in washington tonight kirsten phenomena are thank you. on the other side of the world a story about money respect and yes men and women the b.b.c. s china editor carrie greece has resigned from her post over what she calls unlawful pay discrimination gracey a fluent mandarin speaker with thirty years experience reporting for in china for the b.b.c. she quit her beijing post and says that she will be returning to the london
good government type foreign to him, but he thought he could pull the levers of democracy and make it work for him. is this really the learning curve of someone from the business world now in the oval office? well, it s not the learning curve of anyone from the business world who might have won the oval office but it is that way for this executive, for donald trump, a person who has never had to answer for anyone, who is 70 years old. has always surrounded himself with a sort of coatry of yes men and women, people who never questioned him who got things done for him and who looked the other way on ethical things, legal things. they sort of fudged it. you can t do that when you re in a system when you re in a system of government and have all the checks and balances and bureaucracy with thousands of people hop can be checks on your power because they have access to the information. this happened back in march, the same time if the story is true,
just shared here. if there is infighting where is it coming from? steve bannon against jared kushner or more than that? fund mentally there should be infighting in the sense there should be disagreement. i think that the difference between disagreement and infighting can be night and day. for example, you don t want everybody to say the same thing. there is an old saying if i have three assistants and they all agree with me i should fire two of them. why do you need a group think and a chorus of yes men and women? there should be disagreement. but i think when it crosses the line, when it becomes undermining. there have been reports bannon was leaking stories against the president, against jared kushner. bill: is that true? i don t know. the fact the president has seen those reports, maybe he has confronted bannon, i don t know. i think there is room for difference of opinion. there should be difference of opinion. we want the president to hear all of the option, all of the views