problematic, unless mueller would want a subpoena in order to do it along those lines. also, i do have to mention to you, and it s one of the things that s kind of underreported about the justice department, is that technically, regardless of whether the individual who worked for the justice department is an employee or is not an employee, according to doj rules, they may still be constrained from speaking publicly, unless they are authorized by the appropriate supervisor, in this case would likely be the attorney general himself. and the other thing i think is important to mention is running in the background of all of this is that mr. mueller, despite the fact he did do exit interviews years ago when he left the fbi has been very, very reluctant to go public, to speak in front of the cameras to news media unless he feels there s an absolute necessity. now, of course, the question here is, is this an absolute necessity? it certainly seems to be the case. back to you. we re getting n
mulvaney challenge the president? as we know secretary mattis and john kelly clearly did. they are willing to tell the president no on some occasions. and in their exit interviews to say what the policies really are behind the scenes or at least what they believe the policies are. that is in contrast to the way the president sees it. when john kelly says there was never really a barrier, a border wall we abandoned that a long time ago but the president tweets we never abandoned it. who is telling the truth? is nobody talking to the president and saying no. we did or is the president i just what do we make of that? right. they had abandoned it. the messages had been steel slats, steel slats. the president said call it whatever. they were calling it a fence.
career, at least in the trump administration. his resignation was pushed up by two months by president trump. white house chief of staff john kelly s tenure is entding. administration turnover is not surprising after elections. it happens. what is surprising is how frank these two men have been with the press and reporters in their final days. secretary mattis alludesed to difficult times in a letter to the department of defense employees today. general kelly did a two hour interview with the l.a. times where he argued he should be judged on what the president did not do rather than what he did. joining me nbc news correspondent hans nichols and rick tyler. hans, you re standing there in front of the white house. how are these exit interviews playing at the white house? reporter: it s clear that president trump doesn t like the message that his departing chief of staff is propagating.
times of economic roughness i guess you could say. some people say focus on the leftover values talks. technology going to utilities. some people like dollar tree for example, dollar store because they usually do well in times of lower periods, the recession. these are ways to rebalance commodities, but right now i think we are headed for definitely more volatility. if you don t pay attention to the markets every single minute of every single day and you re not trading, that back to maybe have a discussion with whoever is handling your money that you should rebalance but don t worry too much. kristin: economic roughness. i like that. kristina partsinevelos come in thank you selection happy new year. thank you. happy new year. leland: how hackers stop the president to major american newspapers and chief of staff john kelly s exit interviews and in white house into damage control on the last sunday of
need. help. supporting them in making sure that we re advancing public policies like affordable child care, making sure that companies are providing workplace flexibility. there are all kinds of things and moving all families forward. you know what? arianna huffington said you need more sleep, darling. that, too. wear the same clothes. men do. wear flats. she said something that was i hear you. you re good. she said why do we do exit interviews? why don t we i started to think why don t we do lifestyle profiling interviews and interview people? it is so much easier to retain the best talent if we accept their different life stages than lose the best talent and how amazing if we would just help our employees through every stage of life. yes. we don t even do that.