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De-escalate. i don t think there s appetite for potential military conflict. another thing, this comes at a time when the president lost his national security advisor, he s surrounded by a lot of acting officials. it s not clear who s calling the shots. certainly secretary of state mike pompeo has perhaps the most influence and is the one that holds the president s ear. it would be more reassuring for people if the administration were coming in from a position of strength but it s characterized by a great deal of dysfuncti dysfunction. they have to make sure they have a unified posture when they go in and sit down with president rue ha knee. is the president looking out for the united states or the president? good to see you. thank you very much. new details today on the investigation into justice brett kavanaugh s misconduct before his confirmation. what we learned about who was and who was not interviewed by the fbi. plus senator elizabeth warren ....
And pop tarts. specifically, the strawberry flavor is seven times more likely to sell out. get your pop-tarts on the front end. what do you say? i don t i feel like it s a natural choice. yeah, don t embarrass yourself. allison chinchar, thanks so much. listen, this is a serious topic. president trump is at camp david this weekend. and he s monitoring hurricane dorian, rather than traveling to poland as has been planned before he cancelled that to stay here and attend to this. he s attending a briefing at cnn headquarters in washington. that happens tomorrow afternoon. as he s preparing for the huge storm he s surrounded by a lot of acting officials including acting fema director. ....
Know. but together those are all the agencies that do immigration stuff in the u.s. federal government. and there is no one formally in charge of any of those agencies right now. up to and including the whole department of homeland security. they re all run by acting officials who have been slotted in thereafter the last people running those agencies left or were fired. it s all short termers, no one confirmed by the senate, no one who s been vetted at all in anyway, except for the white house, which is great at that. in the time that no one has officially been running any of the agencies that handle immigration for the u.s. government. the trump white house has unveiled their three most radical immigrant policies since the muslim ban. just in the past few weeks with nobody running all those immigration agencies, they have announced their new plan to basically block people from applying for asylum in this country. they announced their new plan to make it so only people with lots of mon ....
The u.s. government does not have the department of homeland security, chief of customs and border protection. a chief of immigrations and custom enforcement, the government does not have a chief of the u.s. sit zernship and immigration services, all of those agencies have similar sounding overlapping names, i know. but together those are all the agencies that do immigration stuff in the u.s. federal government. and there is no one formally in charge of any of those agencies right now. up to and including the whole department of homeland security. they re all run by acting officials who have been slotted in thereafter the last people running those agencies left or were fired. it s all short termers, no one confirmed by the senate, no one who s been vetted at all in anyway, except for the white house, which is great at that. in the time that no one has officially been running any of the agencies that handle immigration for the u.s. ....
They haven t fully vetted these officials. i think that was a clear case in the case of the secretary of defense even though patrick shanahan had been confirmed for a previous administration post, the white house clearly didn t know about this new information that would make it more difficult for him to get confirmed as zesecretary of defense. so president trump says this is about giving him more flexibili flexibility, but it is clear that the acting officials can t be in the roles permanently but they are also hamstrung to make long term decisions. and that is why the good government groups raise alarm about this kind of trend because it really makes these positions a little bit less cape abable o doing the long term planning that they need to do make the best decisions. and it is really important especially that thinks right now given what is going on with iran. abby, thank you. we re already a nation at war in iraq and afghanistan. still to come, an independent investigation f ....