Sara fischer. Thank you. So much and any thank you all for watching Anderson Cooper 360 starts right now tonight on 360, his Campaign Calls it trump on steroids and says its all Hands On Deck as the former president kicks off a new blitz through battleground states starting today in michigan also tonight, my conversation with former Trump National security adviser, hr mcmaster about his new book, the complex portrait he paints of his old boss and whether he would ever work. In a Trump White House. Again for a special counsel jack smith points a finger at the judge who dismiss the classified documents case. As he asd, a higher court to revive it. Gd evening. Thanks for joining us. Again tonight with what might be described as the first day of the rest of don trumps campaign. It follows a week largely dominated by the Democratic Convention in several weeks, abuzz surrounding his new opponents. Now, were told to expect him to hold multiple events a week and visit two states a day today be
not, has left 22 vacancies in a assistant or deputy positions. and those are key policy decision. exactly, and the problem is in their place are career foreign service officers who tend to be bringing with them all the baggage of the former administration. so i think that s part of where the clash is coming with president. there are some policy disputes. we mentioned the iran deal. we mentioned the north korean exchange. qatar versus saudis and trump was with the saudis. tillerson wanted to be mediator. the climate deal where he disagreed with the president. there is major policy disputes. right. you have to get on board with your president. if you re outlining differences there, that is a problem for me. i say one thing, trump obviously is very difficult man to work with, but if you called your president a moron at a meeting of, at the pentagon, you re a moron. there are very few places where you can call your boss a moron
assistant or deputy positions. and those are key policy decision. exactly, and the problem is in their place are career foreign service officers who tend to be bringing with them all the baggage of the former administration. so i think that s part of where the clash is coming with president. there are some policy disputes. we mentioned the iran deal. we mentioned the north korean exchange. qatar versus saudis and trump was with the saudis. tillerson wanted to be mediator. the climate deal where he disagreed with the president. there is major policy disputes. right. you have to get on board with your president. if you re outlining differences there, that is a problem for me. i say one thing, trump obviously is very difficult man to work with, but if you called your president a moron at a meeting of, at the pentagon, you re a moron. there are very few places where you can call your boss a moron and survive of the.
falling apart. if you can resolve that, you can take steps towards iran and syria. jared has his work cut out for him. he s new to this. these deputy positions, which are utterly critical for doing anything foundationally remain understaffed. the one way that trump remains with one advantage, at the moment where they are doing a presser, trump actually outwardly criticized or urged him to stop and he was not rep pri manneded in the press trump has capital to work with. i don t know if he has the person to make it work. we also have a situation where the president is consumed by this what he calls a witch hunt by the ongoing
values their opinion. that he wants to make certain going forward the people that he chooses that our people that can be long-term, that he can really have in his inner circle. i think it s better to around the side of caution in terms of who you bring around. i think so far, he is happy with the people that he has, been able to work through some conflicts and some initial growing pains. that being said, he hasn t had the easiest time from the democrats in terms of getting his cabinet filled and he also has a number of deputy positions that he needs to fill as well. so i would like to see the pace picked up there, but i understand the process and also the political obstacles that have fallen his way. bret: bob? that s what it is, one of the big problems. this is a guy that comes in out of the business sector and has a certain way of running his business, which is very much executive centers with a few people he is loyalty.