dollar federal budget. but i m just trying to understand, you know, where trump is coming from and when he decides someone is worth firing and when he s not. frankly, it s impossible to understand. it seems to come down to which side of the bed trump woke up on. at this point, i think he is conflicted as he said on air force one between believing that pruitt is a good person who is doing the right things on policy and then believing that the scandals like this do make him look bad. okay. don, the bigger question is scott pruitt was a leader in the he was leading member, the attorney general from oklahoma leading this fight against climate change and other matters. i think the bigger point is this fits into the theme of the president not hiring the best and brightest. some of these things, this administrator is accused of doing and has done certainly would not pass the smell test in any, you know, county attorney s office, state senator s office. it is striking to me how flagrant
he was following orders. so the question becomes who was calling the shots. as you mentioned these documents yesterday referenced a very senior transition official and senior transition official. the circumstantial evidence and reporting to date has suggested that the very senior transition official is jared kushner. jared kushner who has quite a bit of exposure in this case got a lot more yesterday because it seems that jared kushner was the one who instructed michael flynn to make contact with the russians ahead of a united nations security council resolution vote on israel settlement ac activity. the bigger question is who was the senior transition was in this case, there was some speculation kt mcfarland who was the deputy. what makes that interesting, as you can imagine, the deputy to the national security adviser would not be ordering the national security adviser to be doing anything. she would most likely be taking orders from somewhere else above the food chain. and i think th
leaking is the egregious part of the tale. that s all ask maggie. always tends to be where this goes with this administration. it is part recognition that there s a public issue here and large part about paranoia and fear that things are going on we re not in control of. bigger question for white house right now is what is happening at various agencies. and there s clear sense putting it together. questions about scott pruitt s spending at epa, advisers defend it but sound prf booth thing. private security. most epa don t. and money for the soundproof booth. all a giant bag of what is going on here. and one of the effective parts of candidate trump s campaign was the notion of draining the swamp. first time he said it, korey lewandowski said i think you ll
because ours is a shared history, a very tragic time and very amazing time as well. if community members collectively decide that they want to do something about these monuments, they want to take them down, they have every right to do that as members of that community. that s what freedom freedom is all about. they can choose to erect them and take them down as well. this idea we are going to go out and start busting up public property. that does set a dangerous precedent. absolutely. bigger question is at what point do we draw the line? do we draw it at the washington memorial? do we draw it at lincoln memorial? do we draw it on the men whose images are on our currency? if people want to go to that they can go to my website at dana radio.com and send them to the address there. martha: you will accept their money. that s so nice of you. johnna, pick up on deign naps question. where does it end? at this point it really doesn t. i think in order for us to really have this conver
had about the obama administration using executive action, talking about some executive action on health care. i m still very excited about trying to let people join associations across state lines to buy their insurance, and i think he can act by executive order to do this. so we ve talked to the secretary of labor, and i m hoping that president trump will move forward with actually doing some of this through executive action. i think the president is very open to this and so i m keeping up the dialogue we ought to try to do something. is that going to be the earned he earn end here? bailouts, others call them subsidies on obamacare. bigger question. if the congressionalest collapses or put on pause, is that what will happen? president trump use the executive action? a sign of weakness if this is what you are resort to and do