a hard liner and he s been from the start from the beginning of his political career he s contradicted tillerson pretty much on every issue about foreign policy that that we saw in the last one and a half years he s certainly seen as a hawkish kind of state secretary so probably would see a rougher stance is the biggest difference would you say would be on the stand with the iran nuclear deal or north korea or both of those really both of those are probably the most important ones i think overall what we re seeing is the beginning we had rains priebus and steve benen as the ultra right party establishment two axes in his cabinet no this has entirely disappeared evaporated and so what we re seeing is a series of old generals ex generals and hardliners so the outlook has changed quite a bit. tomorrow a big day here in germany as the new german government is going to be sworn in start getting to work we ve got ugly americans going to be sworn in as chancellor
he publicly attacked jeff sessions, mary. publicly fired tom price after humiliating him in public. he is two or three times at least, at least two, contradicted tillerson publicly, most recently in the tweet on north korea we talked about. tough to work for a guy who does that. yeah. i would say that they could kind of patch that up if they can fix the, what you would call strategic communication, sort of get on the same page but there s north problem that tillerson has which is that he came into the state department with this idea that he would overhaul the place. so he has got these consultants going through and looking at what the problems are and so forth. deputy secretary john sullivan last week went before the state, the house foreign affairs committee and said, we re almost done. which is, going to be a good thing. and but in the meantime, secretary, the secretary has
sessions, mary. publicly fired tom price after humiliating him in public. he is two or three times at least, at least two, contradicted tillerson publicly, most recently in the tweet on north korea we talked about. tough to work for a guy who does that. yeah. i would say that they could kind of patch that up if they can fix the, what you would call strategic communication, sort of get on the same page but there s north problem that tillerson has which is that he came into the state department with this idea that he would overhaul the place. so he has got these consultants going through and looking at what the problems are and so forth. deputy secretary john sullivan last week went before the state, the house foreign affairs committee and said, we re almost done. which is, going to be a good thing. and but in the meantime, secretary, the secretary has not, has left 22 vacancies in a
barbara starr, we re going to let you go. thank you very much. we want to shift back for just a moment to what we were talking about before and this is the fate of jeff sessions. one of the things that has developed is the support from the attorney general from within the republican party. senators saying no, we stand by jeff sessions. conservative media saying we stand by jeff sessions right now. the and now some people in the white house apparently telling the president he should back off. what do you make of it. well, 24 hours ago sitting in the same position. talked about how there still is a little bit of loyalty left in washington, d.c. and actually seeing that play out now. whether that is centrist or republican senators who tend to go more to the senate. but rob from ohio forcefully coming out, acknowledging he doesn t always agree with him on the issues but finds him to be
james comey. there were people on the democrat and republican side who did not like him and criticized him but a fire form broke out because the president fired him. it s because the president was doing that with corrupt intent to obstruct justice. and that s. that s your opinion. that is my opinion. but what we re seeing now is he s not trying to get jeff sessions to resign because they disagree on immigration policy. he s trying to get him to resign because he won t influence of the russian investigation. that s a problem. he made it clear. it s because he recused himself from the investigation. that s why he is angry and some people do take that laep to say what the president wants to do is look for a way to push out robert mueller. see if anything develops there. at the president said he s going to wait. congressman thank you so much for being with us. thank you. all right. one step forward, one step back. the senate is in session in just minutes debating health care afte