Campaign kickstart President Bidens fiery State Of The Union. And now his Administration Officials are fanning out across the country to deliver his message. Family business, little thoroughly. The Trump Family Takeover of the Republican National committee becomes official this morning as he faces a deadline in days to come up with half a billion to cover legal losses do you know where that tire went . Something you might ask about your kids lego set, not a conversation, however you expect between a pilot and air Traffic Control im kate baldwin with sara sidner and john berman. This is Cnn News Central its on and pop in this morning, President Biden and the white wed house officials kick off coast to coast off as they take last nights fiery state of the Union Message directly to be where can people President Biden visits battleground . Pennsylvania today and over the next 18 days, white house officials will fan out across 22 different states as reviews of biden speech are now pouring i
Does he view them as disposal? i think he values the credabilities he has on national security matters, steve. and it s his national security team which has the highest approval rating, if we have it, among media elites. whether it s secretary of defense mattis. general mcmanus is the jgs security adviser. mike pompeo. dunford, who was chairman of the joint chiefs before the president became president. but he s been elevated in status and in recognition. so that national security team is widely and deeply respected. except for rex tillerson. and i do believe that the president values the approval of new york elites and some d.c. elites. not so much the media elites but a lot of d.c. elites. so that national security team buys him a lot of space. i think he wrote an interesting piece a couple weeks ago, steve, where he pointed out that the criticism donald trump is taking, the hostility is rather unique in the media and the popular culture. it s deflected by the shield of
Dramas that are playing out for these secretaries in addition to the public statements that they re also required to respond to when the president makes them. so if you re in a situation like cohn or tillerson or mattis or any of the others, when the president is online and in sync with the policy that everyone has agreed to talk about, that s one thing. but when the president then tweets something or says something that goes counter to the discussions of the policies that puts them in a very different position. hugh, let me ask you this. we ve seen a lot of volatility when it comes to these staff position as round the president, folks lasting only a few months on the job. when you get to these top-level appointments. you say tillerson s probably on his way out. when it s a mattis, when it s the chief of staff, there are some folks there who donald trump s brought into top-level positions who i think have bought him a little credibility with for lack of a better term the establishmen
Sessions. i was starting to put a list together. he certainly does not like any restraint. he pushes back. he s eventually going to push back on this of course. it s not his style. he needs to be donald trump. nobody s had any luck putting him in a box making him be a conventional president. he s showing us in every way conceivable eight months now, nine months into the job, he s not going to act that way and anybody that tries to do so does so at their peril. and the promise of kelly at least from the standpoint of institutional washington, was he was going to have order in the white house. maybe not the president when it came to tweeteding but when it came to running the white house there would be order. it looks like according to this reporting that s not sitting well specifically with donald trump, that kind of regimentation. well, he s the latest adult in the room with the president. and there s been in recurring theme since trump got elected that however wayward he might beco
Going to enjoy that but i don t know he s going to have much choice. eric: what is the reaction from washington? in georgetown when they sit around the dinner tonight to this brash new york billionaire who is now among you. i mean i think it s not really an institutional washington was not particularly enthusiastic about seeing what would happen once donald trump came to washington. again he is come and and he is not a lot of heads. for good or for bad that is what is done. he has gotten a lot of pushback as a result of that as well and we are so new to this thing to your point earlier we will have to see out plays out. eric: the clintons example, you always see this washington creature in the oval office. it to some extent but we can all agree that donald trump is far farther outside of washington than most most. eric certainly shaken things up