involvement in overseas water boarding. the president is incredibly proud of his nominee. she s highly qualified, highly recommended, highly respect from both sides of the aisle particularly within the intelligence community. i d point you to some people not usually those that often sing praises of the president like leon pennetta. bill: more on williams, fox news political analysis steve hilton. will she be confirmed, do you believe? i think she will. i think she s right, there s been widespread support. it s ironic because the president has nominated someone
headlines. they don t want to be the one getting the attention. i was talking to leon pennetta, and he said there are consequences for chiefs of staff that field the headlines and not in a good way. remember that kelly said some pretty crude and sensitive things about immigrants known as dreamers, basically implying they were lazy. jill, let me ask you about some of the president s comments. he did break his silence about rob porter and said some things that we aired at the top of the show about the fact that rob porter has denied the allegations. i want to take everybody back to november 21st, when donald trump first talked about the allegations against roy moore. listen to what he had to say. well, he denies it. look, he denies it. he says it didn t happen.
steve bannon has made a comeback on 60 minutes, and he said that firing james comey was the worst mistake the white house has made in modern politics. we will speak to former defense secretary and cia director, leon pennetta, about politics and storm response next. can i get some help. watch his head.
somebody said to me that you described the firing of james comey, you are a student of history as the biggest mistake in political history? that would probably be too bombastic for me, but maybe modern political history. less than a month after leaving his post steve bannon criticizing president trump there. the white house dismissing bannon s talk as him being prone to hyperballic words. and joining us now, former white house chief of staff to clinton, leon pennetta. we will get to the response to irma, but let s start with the politics of the day.
who it is that they are going to be intrusting their government to. and there are republicans that have serious questions about the nominees that donald trump has put up, and namely rex tillerson, as we discussed on this show, his work and his ties potentially to russia. let s move on to another topic. donald trump s tweeted about arnold schwarzenegger and the new celebrity apprentice, and toyota, and the future and russia relationship, and listen to what the former cia director as well, leon pennetta, said about trump, the twitter account and the presidency. watch. as a former chief of staff, i just can t imagine how you deal with a president who feels free to tweet every day about his own emotions and personal feelings