right now to be really honest with you in which direction this goes. jared keeps the environment calm around him. unlike a lot of political operatives who run around and stress and throw things against the wall. i ve never heard him raise his voice. someone like michael flynn who is proposing things on foreign policy front and obvious example would be to do with islamic state and is proposing something that is impetuous or might not work or sound simple but could cause long-term problems, my question is what role does jared play calming influence in that situation? how much is he going to be on top of specific policy and how much is he going to be engaged in some of the trickier decisions that the president is going to have to make and how much is he going to give him space to make those decisions without necessarily have the last influence of michael flynn or steve bannon who are some of the more hot heads in the white house at the moment. jared is there all the time. he s omni pr
pretty high marks running intel for defense. and then there s the tweeting general flynn that has caused a lot of concerns. twitter is a problem clearly in our political leaders. this is not helpful. general flynn who moved out by barack obama in 2014 because of disagreements over intel policy since he s come out even amongst his peers he s raised a lot of eyebrows. the trip to russia which was organized by his speaking agency. he turns up and sits next to vladimir putin. that was seen as an endorsement of vladimir putin but he also has his son that propagated conspiracy theories online who said that marco rubio, for example, was addicted to cocaine and used to have wild parties. if general flynn keeps his son who has been extreme in things
goes into a full blown meltdown. and listen to them or this goes into a full blown meltdown as bad as bill clinton s in 1993 when he took office. i m paying close attention to people who are with trump in the campaign and people that were not. a team of rivals. when he was running, party apparatus ran away from him in terms of intellectuals. the one that stuck with him are now in line for the top jobs. does he have confidence to bring someone like mitt romney. it s the big question. a couple updates before we get to break. yesterday the trump campaign banned state and federal lobbyists from joining the administration. that s big news. require staffers not to lobby for five years after leavie ini government. there are people saying it will make it less likely for good people to serve in
he s said and done and posted online with him when he comes into the white house, that s not a reassuring sign. and also there s accumulative effect of all of this. the steve bannon controversy that blew up. seems to be dying down a bit. nowsensitive remarks and we know jeff sessions coming up most likely for attorney general said things in his past that were racially insensitive as well and you create, again, this narrative that continues to move forward. i have no doubt i have no doubt that flynn was going to be picked. i don t think anybody else did either. i m sure sessions is going to get whatever sessions wants. again, i think this underlines a point that if you re going to get a couple loyalists that have said some crackpot things in the past, you better have some steady hands at state, at defense, and at treasury or this
you write flirtations with mitt romney is smart. who he picks for key cabinet posts and secretary of state is one of the most defining indications of where trump s mind is. picking romney or nikki haley, another prominent critic with whom trump met thursday will choose something that s lacking in donald trump, the candidate. m magnanimity. someone that might challenge his assumptions or opinions from time to time. romney meeting is a step in the right direction. we ll read the whole the washington post here. it sends several messages across the country and the world. but one of the most important is