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Stable as best as he can and wants to focus on that trade deal with china potentially trade war rather. i dont know if there is really much of a strategy. i suspect we are going to see him continue to act the way he did all summer which is sort of jerky mode of governing and sure there are important moments and milestones such as the state dinner with the queen and the united kingdom but there are also a ton of self-inflicted wounds that his advisers privately admit that are not helpful for him ...

To stop a hurricane from hitting, and none is going to stop the destruction thats going to come if it hits at the force that it looks like right now. the preparations are being done. we have the institutional knowledge in place. whether or not they have an acting title or not is really irrelevant. we have a large bureaucracy of people who have been there for many years, and you also have the state officials being deployed in georgia and in florida, and theyre going to be working hand in hand. wh...

Why he -- why acosta let epstein off the hook so gratuitously and his explanations never held up on this. the question for the republicans and the president and mitch mcconnell is why you didnt care. and whether you still care now. and whether youre going to do anything differently. i think mr. wehners point is very well taken. the president, himself, has been credibly accused of sexual misconduct, even rape more recently, and we need to take those allegations seriously. >> congressman, i am goi...

Properly confirmed, cannot have their own chief of staff, their own agenda, their own authority. >> thats right, andrea. i think the thing that was so shocking today was that people -- reporters when the president started to praise acosta, really thought that he was going to be coming out and defending him. thats what he had been doing. he basically turned around and said ill be missing him. and acosta essentially was perp walked in some ways in peoples eyes. this was really in some ways an emba...

Peril. >> all right, doug thornet, matt gorman, thank you very much. i have a feeling i will be seeing a lot of the both of you and having this conversation a lot between now and election day 2020. thanks, guys. its been over six months since the president administration last had a senate-confirmed secretary of defense. remember james "mad dog" mattis? and now the president has selected mark esper since matisses departure. he is secretary of the army. and before that, he spent years as a lobby...

Washington university as well. so we have a pretty well-rounded individual whos going to go rain the reigns for a while. >> well, ray is high as far as gw is concerned. im all for that. but, sir, you were senior adviser to ash carter when he was defense secretary. what is the negative impact of having that acting title instead of actually being able to operate as a full-fledged defense secretary. weve seen this president sort of prefer to have his officials hold these titles that seem somehow to...

Said over and over. well, it sure seems more and more like the president is acting alone. yet another cabinet member is leaving the administration. today, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan pulled his nomination to the permanent post or had his nomination pulled. the secretary of the army, mark asper, will replace shanahan in the interim. so the acting defense secretary will be replaced by another acting defense secretary. thats a whole lot of acting. but in this white house, its all too ...

Federal workers either furloughed or working without pay, basically nothing is expected to change before the new year when democrats take control of the house. but heres the thing. even if the democrats do manage to reopen the government, and that will be an interesting fight, it will not change the fundamental fact that the trump administration has been and will remain in its own kind of quasi-permanent shutdown. many top positions in the trump administration are either temporarily staffed or n...

In the new year, the secretary of defense, the attorney general and the epa administrator will be acting, not confirmed by congress. whoever replaces ryan zinke will be acting as well. even the incoming chief of staff, mick mulvaney will be an acting chief of staff. sources say mulvaney himself asked for the acting title so he had a safe exit from the role if needed. and then there are the positions that are just not being filled at all. theres no white house political director, no u.s. ambassad...

Michael besh lots says the situation is unprecedented. the secretary of defense, the attorney general and the epa administrator will be acting, not confirmed by congress. whoever replaces ryan zinke will be acting as well. even the incoming chief of staff, mick mulvaney will be an acting chief of staff. mulvaney himself asked for the acting title so he had a safe exit from the role if needed. and then there are the positions that are just not being filled at all. theres no white house political ...