go into a dive, deep one. we have to take care to make sure we have lines of communication, where we are, where they are, what s acceptable or not. the way to do it is through diplomacy. it shouldn t be conducted by a bull horn. it needs to be conducted with an amount of discreteness, behind close doors with an agenda that has been fully vetted by your team. namely state department, defense department, your cia, et cetera. all the players of the team have to be involved on theame page. we found from those executive orders that were signed by the president homeland security wasn t even advised what the contents were. i think this question of process it also may be a tactic. it s almost to me as if it s a football game and you are playing a no huddle offense. so that you go up to the line, execute this plan, try to confuse the defense, keep them
didn t agree, you don t go on this public tirade about what you didn t agree with the administration. you pick up the phone. say i need to come down and work this out. if you are her issue was that. so for her, i think her mistake and her error was, taking this fight public. it was, sure appeared political to me. and, candidly, she didn t have that right. she, she had the right to go down and disagree with the decision and the elements of implementation with the white house, didn t have the right to go public on this. that part, i think there are rights and wrongs all over this stage. in the last couple of days. chairman rodgers, you know, there are reports that the head of homeland security wasn t consulted, the secretary rex tillerson, secretary of sfaltat learned about it in the last minute. does that make sense to you, if you are rolling out a policy like this, i mean, the head of homeland security would seem to be one of essential people you would want to weigh in? completely.
investigating how well the state department is doing in this recent term is just saying that it doesn t work. they don t know how to compete, don t know how to compete online and they are winning the social media war, and then you read that homeland security wasn t even checking the social media contacts of farook s wife before she got her fiancee visa. there s a whole lot they have to consider in this meeting today, not just what the pentagon is doing, but what is homeland doing and what is the state department doing when they look at these visas and how are we competing online against isis with their huge social media outreach and with all the dark spaces where we can t even see them. that s right. that s another thing you hear lately. it s no longer enough to say that isis is social media savvy. it s time to admit they are just plain media savvy above all.
there was a situation where most of the government was funded but homeland security wasn t. republicans were threatening to try re-opening the government and ultimately they folded because you can t get any funding bill out of congress without democrats in the senate voting for it. you need democrats to break ranks, send the president a bill to veto. they will fold for the same reason they folded in february. trump can say, i said we should shut down but republicans in washington folded again. if you sent me there, i wouldn t fold. smart political move by him. lawrence? go ahead, sarah. it s april. i m sorry. go ahead. i want to go back to the muslim comment. we are a nation of different peoples and cultures. i don t understand why there is still this issue. we have so many different types of americans. everyone in this country is not necessarily a bad person if they are in one religion. i m a christian. i love jesus and i beat the bible, but one of the most
muslims out of the country before they start killing our families. as a reporter notes, everyone around him nodded. so josh, this is what you get when you wade into the trump crowd. the gq piece is interesting. one person the reporter finds says i like trump but i m concerned because he s an at&t ris it shall atheist. he said he s not. these are not the people most read in on policy. i was looking for that polite phrasing and i couldn t find it. one thing about the shutdown. it s unlikely that we ll get a shutdown over planned parenthood. just a few months ago there was going to be a partial government shutdown over the president s executive actions on immigration. there was a situation where most of the government was funded but homeland security wasn t. republicans were threatening to try re-opening the government and ultimately they folded because you can t get any