repeal obamacare. senator john mccain under pressure to vote yes, but not tipping his hand yet on what he is going to do. so let s discuss. cnn political commentator anna novarro. she s the former policy director for hillary clinton and senator political commentator jason miller. okay. so let s have this conversation, guys. anna, regard to you re okay and you re okay after these devastating storms. by the way, she lives in florida. that s why i said that. senator lindsey graham and john mccain s close friendship will impact his decision? yes and no. i know both john and lindsey extremely well, and i ve seen them interacting for many, many years. their relationship with them cannot be overstated. it is a friendship that goes
that was donald trump last march giving his views on islam and muslims while the executive order issued friday bans citizens from seven majority muslim countries for 90 days. trump insisted yesterday it s not a muslim ban but, quote, extreme vetting. lots to discuss with our panel, we have anna novarro, jan brewer and cnn political commentator bakari sellers. your job for president barack obama was to explain the muslim world to the white house and help to explain the united states to the wmuslim world. what do you think about the events of this past weekend? we must keep america safe. and we want president trump to be successful in defeating isis and related organizations. but the executive order has a premise of 9/11. and by that rationale, it doesn t make any sense.
extremists and will not get us where we need to go. the measure of success and seriousness of the trump doctrine on terrorism really will be how serious they are with regard to saudi arabia where. the ideas have actually been sprouting for decades. so as we think through what they re doing and why they are doing it, the rationale doesn t make sense. it is flawed. and we have to really be thinking about the long-term impact. our actions make a difference. our words make a difference. and the bottom line is we need to have partners that can work with us to stop recruitment. anna navarro, are you surprised that the republicans who came out against the muslim ban a year ago, that this is a ban on seven majority countries, are you surprised that republican officials are being so quiet? i think people are exhausted. i think the flurry of this week
is engaging in the parlor games against romney is doing him no favor. all right. romney and those around him, hearing anna novarro loud and clear, though, jfry, what were you going to say? i was going to say the russian involvement goes well beyond what anne is talking about, what about wikileaks and the every day releasing some of john modesta s e-mails and what is the responsibility of us in the news media who reported that day after day without pointing out day after day that it was a russian propaganda effort. we did point it out. even then it still is. i felt like we pointed out that even then it s out there and you can t put that back in the bottle. i wonder general hurtling, i agree with you on that thing, general, when for you for someone who has served your country for so many years i wonder what your perspective is on the meddling? well, russia is known for
anna, hang in there, girl. it s a long haul, baby. we have a few debates to go. i m outcampaigning everybody. i m working hard, we re raising the resources. we have the best ground games in these early states and president cain, president clinton, when she got beaten by barack obama, giuliani and a whole list of people who were leading in october a year before the primaries. and we ve i m confident to in where we are. now, the other issue with jeb bush, john, has been all along that he certainly has a record to talk about. what he says is a conservative record in florida that despite his name he is an outsider. he s never worked in washington. but the problem has been that even his supporters say this, that his inability to really communicate that on a national level via television, which is kind of how you have to do it when you re running for the presidency. and his answer was, i m not