he's also, on one hand, it gives the opportunity to change the subject. last week, they didn't want to go this route. they thought they had good news. >> robert, when you look at this, he has his team in place, is it in place so much that he learned enough nfrginformation the public has that you don't need this? dhs learned it's those, the majority of the attacks are those who have been radicalize zed years after they have been living here or the narrative if you don't have it refugees are pouring in. the word of refugees pouring in during the obama administration pouring in today. >> i think you hit the nail on the head here with the team. my understanding is, with the trump administration did over the last 72 hours, they listened to the beaurocracy. this is what we have done. this is what works. can i ask a question? how are we going implement this? one of the problems they had, they said, basically, do this
order. when they looked around, nobody was following them. there was a lot of confusion. you have members of congress saying look, i can't speak to this because i don't know what the details are. you have dhs and others saying, i don't know what this means. itis vague and confusing. how can i implement this. you have reince priebus, the white house chief of staff saying, let's learn from our mistakes and have marching orders in order. figure out a way that is more thoughtful. the reality is, there's a lot of people that wake up every day and want to kill us. we recognize that and know that. i think his intention is, i want to keep the american people safe. the question are the tactics. rolling this out in a thoughtful way, but having the beaurocracy behind them, the one the president doesn't like is a step in the right direction. >> so many people voted on national security. >> very much so. >> if the president put this executive order together in a far more organized way, the chaos is gone, this is what so
could do more. it will be interesting. >> it takes many drafts and rewrites and collaboration to make a good, unifying speech. it didn't feel like that happened at all during the inauguration. it felt like the first draft someone else wrote. this could be much better. it could if they are listening. >> is this about the deconstruction of the administrative state or working and sticking together, congress and white house. >> i hear about deconstruction, we have to go to break. mark halperin, when you talk about spending $55 billion in the biggest beaurocracy in the world, the pentagon, that's not deconstruction. when you're talking about infrastructure, which i'm sure he'll talk about and i hope he talks about tonight, that's not deconstruction. this president is not about tearing down, this is a president who thinks big. people talk about andrew jackson, they need to go back
there. other presidents tried to come in and clean it up. the problem is, there's such a beaurocracy in place. donald trump is learn thag lesson very, very quickly. at's taking place on twitter is a lot of this happens in the subtext. he's making the subtext text and seeing it play out. >> strong generals around him now. they have been elevated, i'm not sure if they are going to take it. i want to go back to cpac. we talked about it in maryland where president trump is expected to speak in an hour or so. we have casey hunt. casey, you have been there the last days. you have interesting conversations yesterday, but today, the headliner is none other than president trump. what's on tap? >> reporter: that's right, steph. kellyanne conway opened her talk saying by the end of the conference it will be t-pac instead of cpac. that's what we are looking for here today. there's still questions, quite frankly, from attendees here
know, which is good. however we get there is fine. i'm not sure it matters. >> we have reason to be afraid whomever the president is, so that's great. at the same time you contrast -- he gets the most experienced people that, as you said, hillary clinton or barack obama or george w. bush could have selected any of these people. they are just the all-stars of all all-stars, yet inside his white house doesn't have a single person in his inner circle who has run that beaurocracy before. you have people like stephen miller running around with really shabby executive orders that create chaos and then calls, as we are saying, people in the eastern district telling them how -- what was that story? >> stephen miller, 31 years old,
bill gates started out as a small business owner. he was obsessed with profits then built microsoft. whether it's automation or henry ford with the automated production line, these people made the economy better for everyone. >> they are not job creators. >> hold on. i have -- jonas, do you like robots? what do you think of this? >> if you raise wages, you are increasing it higher to build or make technology solutions to replace labor. we are talking it's a bad thing. maybe it's the upside of all this beaurocracy. employers are going to say find a robot to do it because i'm sick of paying real people to do
what the findings were and he is the one who can ask me to stay or go. >> my question to you, bill, is, could this have gone on without john brennan knowing about it? >> absolutely, no question about it, gretchen. the cia is a big beaurocracy out there and like any other beaurocracy, like the irs, people will do things without getting permission of their bosses. i think generally speaking from the american public to sit back, it's hard to differentiate between the cia and nsa. as far as americans are concerned, they are part of the big intelligence beaurocracy that most americans believe is looking at us in one fashion or another. >> so interesting. you have to wonder if it's going to change senator fieinsteins approach. when it's happening to her, this could change the whole picture for her as well. bill, thanks so much for explaining a very complicated
yeltsin. all putin could do was keep his head down and work hard. one day they called him to moscow. >> he had a rapid rise to power through the beaurocracy. what explains that? >> i think it's a combination of genuine talent. he is not stupid by a long shot. he has clearly got a considerable intelligence, a lot of self-discipline, and he knows how to play the system and play personalities. >> putin's meteoric rise through the ranks gave him increasing power and influence. >> he has his goal to keep russia in one piece and elevate russia to the proper position in the world, which to him is bring russia back into the top league of global players. >> in december 1999, putin had his chance to take charge. >> translator: i resign.
the fbi continuing that we now have a leak from somebody saying it's going to end up with nothing. >> no doubt. especially since many a little the fbi was dragging its heels to start the investigation. now to say, we're done. no criminal charges. here is part of the quote, though. they found no evidence of political bias or enemy hunting that would amount to a violation of criminal law. instead what emerged was mismanaged beaurocracy enforcing rules about tax exemption applications it didn't understand. what? >> look, we know this. we know that a vast number of conservative groups were targeted by irs officials for inappropriate treatment. delays, denials, inappropriate treatment and a handful of liberal groups subjected to what appears to be normal, ordinary routine review of these kind of groups. we know we got several different stories about this. a couple of people in cincinnati. then turned out a bunch of
i lean french, hard. i'm normally sympathetic to the language laws. >> you don't think it's preposterous? >> i don't think think it is -- but here we have a situation -- >> it's stupid, i agree with you completely this province 40 years ago was in some respects an english city, so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> but, ever beaurocracy produces by temperature products of stupid di- and it will not stand. >> the anglo-canadians treated quebecois like second-class crap for much of history. i get it. i would want my own thing and when i got it, i would want to make sure there's no back sliding. >> when the first sovereignist party to be elected in 1976, it didn't come out of a vacuum. it came from a couple decades of awakening and struggle.