Congresswoman slammed the new choice. saying, by putting john kelly in charge, president trump is militarizing the white house and putting the executive branch in the hands of an extremist. and yesterday, the defendant had a remark. i ve been talking about it, his tenure as homeland security secretary. and the very extreme policies of promoting family dislocation, breaking up families, promoting a muslim man, promoting a wall between the united states and mexico, those are extreme policies. kimberly: all right, dana, is this a fair criticism? dana: i thought that she was going to talk about his long 45 year career as a public servant, serving as a four-star marine general. he has been in the department of homeland security for five months, he was the one that was willing to go back and redo the travel ban to make sure he could pass the muster in the courts. he was also basically implementing the law that was on the books. if you don t like it, may be you
Congresswoman slammed the new choice. saying, by putting john kelly in charge, president trump is militarizing the white house and putting the executive branch in the hands of an extremist. and yesterday, the defendant had a remark. i ve been talking about it, his tenure as homeland security secretary. and the very extreme policies of promoting family dislocation, breaking up families, promoting a muslim man, promoting a wall between the united states and mexico, those are extreme policies. kimberly: all right, dana, is this a fair criticism? dana: i thought that she was going to talk about his long 45 year career as a public servant, serving as a four-star marine general. he has been in the department of homeland security for five months, he was the one that was willing to go back and redo the travel ban to make sure he could pass the muster in the courts. he was also basically implementing the law that was on the books. if you don t like it, may be you
Congresswoman barabara lee slammed the new choice. saying, by putting john kelly in charge, president trump is militarizing the white house and putting the executive branch in the hands of an extremist. and yesterday, the defendant had a remark. i ve been talking about it, his tenure as homeland security secretary. and the very extreme policies of promoting family dislocation, deportation of innocent woman and children, breaking up families, promoting a muslim man, promoting a wall between the united states and mexico, those are extreme policies. kimberly: all right, dana, is this a fair criticism? dana: i thought that she was going to talk about his long 45 year career as a public servant, serving as a four-star marine general. he has been in the department of homeland security for five months, he was the one that was willing to go back and redo the travel ban to make sure he could pass the muster in the courts. he was also basically implementing the law that was on the books.
Shocking comments on twitter. things are not going to change. congresswoman you said something about general kelly that was a bit controversial. i want to give an opportunity for everybody to discuss it and for you to defend it. by putting general john kelly in charge, president trump is militarizing the white house and putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremist. first of all, there are those who say people who served in the military should be able to integrate back into society. second of all, why is he perhaps most importantly, why do you think he s an extremist? sure. let me first say, i come from a military family. my dad served in world war ii, in korea. and so i respect and honor the military and recognize the sacrifices that all of our military men and women make as well as general kelly and his history and his sacrifices. what i m talking about is his tenure as homeland security secretary and the very extreme policies of promoting family dislocation, depo
Tenure as homeland security secretary and the very extreme policies of promoting family dislocation, deportation of innocent men and women and children, breaking up families, promoting a muslim ban, promoting a wall between the united states and mexico. those are extreme policies. and so this is very troublesome to me, to have this kind of power now centralized in the white house because these are very serious matters and these are extreme policies. but believe you me, as it relates to his service in the military, again, coming from a military family, i recognize and honor the servicemen and women of our country. original trump backers gave reen priebus a chance because he really earned it on the campaign trail. he was a real asset to the president. but we ve had six months of this and we re all very hopeful now, those of us who backed trump from the very beginning, that general kelly can do a better job of marshaling the white house, the cabinet members and the president himself in