of course, he was an appointed person, but the bigger lesson that s a nonpartisan one is that we should elect people in executive capacity who have experience running the unwieldly piece of government, who have administrative experience, who have political experience. that stuff matters when you re making decisions about corporate finance and real people s ability to get ahead in this country. therefore, ill have a very difficult time, even if he s a democrat who can raise up the place of people out there, i would have a very difficult time getting enthusiastic about a matthew mcconaughey personality, because about a cult of personality rather than the cult of people. maybe he needs to bring you on as an adviser if he does, anyway. don, susan, david, thank you so much. good to see you. and a very good day to all of you again from msnbc world headquarters here in new york.
attorney/client privilege? it doesn t sound like he is because the trifs were accused md, if we re not active, compass sieve in that respect, and he s saying he s not. fauls trl. he s doing things like going on fox news and, i don t know, showing text me say fwarjz, if he s not talking to the president in an executive capacity, what privilege would possibly extend to you? none. sara, it seems like he s blurring the lines between being the president s personal attorney and then being sort of a servant of the government. what do you make of this? well, there are laws about that.
motivation for this appointment. are you as disconcerted by this as they are? only by a matter of degrees less so. look, he could have appointed jared kushner to be dni and he chose not to. john ratcliffe, i will say this, i served with him, perfectly capable of running an organization and serving in an executive capacity, be it coordinating intelligence agencies. he s a former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of texas. very capable. what we ve seen on display though is he s willing to play to the political narrative that enabled donald trump. i believe ratcliffe will approach his job with a certain amount of solemn duty. i really do. i think he will present the president with the intelligence the president needs to be presented with. the question is, when the president says no, we re not going in that direction or reprioritizes things or refuses to commit to the fact russia and north korea are adversaries and not friends, does ratcliffe then fall in line and peddle that
where michael cohen was not being forth coming without specifying what he wasn t forth coming about. and so it is not just lanny davis who is taking issue with the southern district, but it is also guy petrullo who worked there on two stints and worked in an executive capacity and quite upset about the strident tone of the southern district m memo and upset with how they characterized his willingness to coo coooperate and here we are now with the three-year sentence. and phil rucker, the washington bureau chief, and white house bur rerow chief for the washington post and someone who knows michael cohen and has covered donald trump so we well. what are you what do you take from this and what the president said to the reuters last night, and distancing himself, and trying to distance himself from what happened to cohen and all of the criticism that the president has leveled against cohen in comparison to say manafort and some of the others? well, andrea, this is a pretty extraord
what s his face, excuse my brain fart, i was on an early morning flight this morning from a foreign country. chris christie, that s today s what s his face in my mind, was being talked about in my mind for a chief of staff job. his name keeps getting floated for anything. he s been in public office and handled a variety of different things in an executive capacity, so he could be a good chief of staff, but i don t think anybody could be a good chief of staff with trump, because he doesn t listen. so even if chris christie got into the role and set up some sort of organizational structure, it doesn t matter because the president will do what he wants. ndidn t sarah huckabee sandes announce she was leaving? the days are blurring. we re going to look this up. someone is already telling me. gabe, thank you very much. thank you. you can go out there and do