when she was picked in december, even the conservative washington examiner said she is not remotely qualified to serve as our ambassador to the united nations. the day she started as spokesperson at the state department she had the highest security clearance. she had all the boxes checked and ts crossed and is dotted so this raises a lot of questions. household staffing issues plagued other nominees throughout time. remember the names. in this administration, both andy for labor secretary and wilbur ross for commerce had staff immigration issues. both said they were not affair of it at the time. he dropped out but ross made it through. multiple sources say nauert s nanny problem is front and center but multiple issues could have made her confirmation
the day she started as spokesperson at the state department she had our nation s highest security clearance. she had already gone through the vetting. had already had the boxes checked. this issue coming out of left field raises a lot of questions. remembers the name zoe baird, tim geithner. in this administration, both andy posner and wilbur ross for commerce had staff immigration issues. both said they were not aware of it at the time. ross made it through. multiple sources say while nauert s nanny problem is front and center, there were multiple issues that could have made her confirmation hearing unpleasant. she has chosen to avoid all that. michelle kosinski joins us now. so do we have a sense of what happens now with nauert s job at the state department? nauert has been silent on this, except for a very brief statement that she put out saying that the last two months
mistreated, abused, there s been allegations along those lines. then you have this nominee who has one person work without awe grin card, not acceptable typically but the ha poc kras sis of someone being derailed for having one versus the president having dozen of mistreated, there s no squaring it. i thought that after this that after president trump this was a norm that would say permanently broken. i wouldn t think we d see people who had a nanny problem would have their careers derailed because the president has employed dozens and dozens of undocumented workers. if you re going to work in government, you ought to follow the rules. why don t the rules apply to the president? i think that they should. but that s the problem here, right? i don t think it s her nomination that got derailed when frankly it should have. when you re in government you know the rules and you re told to follow them, trump should follow them too. that s the problem here. you have to realize that sh
formally advanced as a nominee. that key part never happened. a lot of people are asking other the last month or so why not. now it emerges in the background check. that she had a whaus coming to be known as a nanny problem.
and he can play the victim. and the other catch-all, he can use it as a distraction for mueller. he plays the victim and talks about how he s the best president probably ever. but clearly, and i think part of this is he s focusing his energy on the wall. acting interior, acting fema. now healther nauert withdrawing because it s a nanny problem? tell us what you know. heather was tapped to succeed nikki haley as u.n. ambassador but her name wallace never