white house. we got the numbers here are the turnover rate is off the charts. it s 34% in the first year for trump. and we should note there are more vacancies at very high levels particularly in the agencies than almost any other administration. what i guess there s two schools of thought. one is like it s better no people than bad people and the other is there s got to be someone to run the government and this will catch up to people. yes, you need good people. mcmaster he s one of the good people. there aren t a lot of good people in this administration because nobody wants to work for donald trump. he s impossible to work for. and when the good people leave, who are they going to replace him with? this is a very bad situation. it s a big problem for our national security. and vladimir putin is looking at us like we re vulnerable. he s already attacked our country once in the election of 2016. he s developing new missiles. and we have constant turnover in
mattis. it may just be his time is up here. we ll have to see. richard, you worked in the white house. we got the numbers here are the turnover rate is off the charts. it s 34% in the first year for trump. and we should note there are more vacancies at very high levels particularly in the agencies than almost any other administration. what i guess there s two schools of thought. one is like it s better no people than bad people and the other is there s got to be someone to run the government and this will catch up to people. yes, you need good people. mcmaster he s one of the good people. there aren t a lot of good people in this administration because nobody wants to work for donald trump. he s impossible to work for. and when the good people leave, who are they going to replace him with? this is a very bad situation. it s a big problem for our national security. and vladimir putin is looking at us like we re vulnerable. he s already attacked our
crises you can have at the same time. the thing that s bad about it tillerson is a serious person. he because he s doing essentially a political act here for trump, i think he s eroding his credibility as secretary of state. i think it s too bad. they ve totally mismanaged this. the truth is iran isn t really a problem, it is a state sponsor of terrorism, it is a completely different country and different situation than north korea is. there is almost no similarities at all, other than they both are threatening to get nuclear weapons. this is trump knows because she s been told by mcmaster he has to continue this agreement. now he s going backtrack to his base to pretend he s being tough. in terms of improving in poll numbers and playing to your base, we re talking about foreign policy. trump has now engaged with syria, afghanistan, north korea, and then iran. is this all about popularity, suddenly this big surgens into foreign policy? he doesn t know what he s doing. i also
visibility is mcmaster and thank god not mike flynn. can you imagine? i cannot. i want to talk about the overseas reaction to this as the trump administration is doubling down on the comments they made about a different foreign adversary, just mentioned it, north korea. white house press secretary sean spicer defending the claim he made more than one week ago that the uss carl vinson, this one blows my mind, the aircraft carrier, that was ordered toward the korean peninsula amid threats from north korea, when it was actually going the other way. this one blows my mind. the statement that was put out was that carl vinson group was headed to the korean peninsula and is headed to the korean peninsula. it will arrive there it s headed there now. it wasn t headed there last week. but that s not but that s not what we ever said. we said it was heading there. and it was heading there. okay. i want to take you live to seoul where nbc s kelly cobeyeah, you and i have gone throug