previous day he met with tv journalists and report was it was not a good meeting. what was really interesting is trump wants the favor of whatever audience he s with. he takes the temperature of a room and adjusts accordingly. the trump who sat down with us yesterday was not the trump you heard thundering from podiums across the country. who was he? he was someone who was trying to project i m a reasonable, even moderate guy. keeping with some of the latter cabinet appointments that we re now seeing. he was saying he was open-minded about things he did not seem open-minded about at all. climate change. torture as we just talked about. that was a very interesting moment because when he said mattis said this to me and i thought you ve been campaigning for 18 months. you ve been talking about how we need to waterboard and look at torture anew and only now when this person said this to you are you questioning your own kind of
you look at the fact that he saved the olympics when they were mired in corruption. of course he had to deal with people all over the world to do that. utah olympics. add on top of that, it s no small feat he got a lot of things right that the president of the united states who had been getting top security briefings for four years got wrong. famously right in the 2012 debate about russia. if you are worried about donald trump s temperament and hot head and will bomb the hell out of isis and withdraw from our treaty agreements, mitt romney is the opposite of that. the critique is he is too mi milk toast. in 2010 or 2011, his policy team invited a couple of us to come up and spend the day with
in a very long time. i do think give the guy credit for picking someone like nikki haley who was not only someone who endorsed marco rubio in the primary, but was someone who came out very strongly against donald trump repeatedly when he made some of the comments he made. if he is to put, say, a mitt romney in at state over rudy giuliani, that would be another sign. the guy deserves credit. who he was in the campaign can be different than who he is as president. that s what you see in those numbers. people believing that, okay, maybe this is something different. i think if he does do something like nikki haley and mitt romney, who you choose, these are big early decisions that shape a presidency. who you choose matters. carol lee, chime in on that. mitt romney versus rudy giuliani is really actually the gamut there. you know, if you take a step back and you look at where we
he wears his army hat, he gets awalks aroundliments. with his army shirt looking all nice. and then people just say, thank you for serving our country and i m like, that s my dad. male vo: no one deserves a warmer welcome home. that s why we re hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. i m very proud of him. male vo: comcast. that takes us back to simpler days. that was fun. how long ago was that? a couple months. as donald trump continues to put his national security team together, no one knows the
challenges involved better than than me? not you. former national security adviser for president carter dr. zbigniew brzezinski. not you. yesterday we spoke with my dad and began by asking him about the potential threats and opportunities in donald trump s outreach to russia. the threats are obvious. they could produce a great deal of misconceptions on both sides and then disappointment and resentme resentment. someone has to be very deliberate and cautious but generally speaking it s a desirable thing to do. russia is no longer a communist state. that s very important to realize. it hasn t yet defined itself effectively as a democracy. it s still uncertain. it has a lot of resentment including against us. it s a country in transition. i think if we re clever about it, perhaps we can help them transition effectively and become a constructive, significant member of the global