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Stable as best as he can and wants to focus on that trade deal with china potentially trade war rather. i don't know if there is really much of a strategy. i suspect we are going to see him continue to act the way he did all summer which is sort of jerky mode of governing and sure there are important moments and milestones such as the state dinner with the queen and the united kingdom but there are also a ton of self-inflicted wounds that his advisers privately admit that are not helpful for him as he thinks of the reelection campaign. >> annie carney, to the extent that we all are. he's a gre...

To stop a hurricane from hitting, and none is going to stop the destruction that's going to come if it hits at the force that it looks like right now. the preparations are being done. we have the institutional knowledge in place. whether or not they have an acting title or not is really irrelevant. we have a large bureaucracy of people who have been there for many years, and you also have the state officials being deployed in georgia and in florida, and they're going to be working hand in hand. whether or not they have a title doesn't matter. >> let's talk now -- go ahead, karen, you want to w...

Why he -- why acosta let epstein off the hook so gratuitously and his explanations never held up on this. the question for the republicans and the president and mitch mcconnell is why you didn't care. and whether you still care now. and whether you're going to do anything differently. i think mr. wehner's point is very well taken. the president, himself, has been credibly accused of sexual misconduct, even rape more recently, and we need to take those allegations seriously. >> congressman, i am going through north of 20 titles within this administration, vacancies or acting titles. for those o...

Properly confirmed, cannot have their own chief of staff, their own agenda, their own authority. >> that's right, andrea. i think the thing that was so shocking today was that people -- reporters when the president started to praise acosta, really thought that he was going to be coming out and defending him. that's what he had been doing. he basically turned around and said i'll be missing him. and acosta essentially was perp walked in some ways in people's eyes. this was really in some ways an embarrassing display. he had to stand there for about 30 minutes while the president took questions ...

Peril. >> all right, doug thornet, matt gorman, thank you very much. i have a feeling i will be seeing a lot of the both of you and having this conversation a lot between now and election day 2020. thanks, guys. it's been over six months since the president administration last had a senate-confirmed secretary of defense. remember james "mad dog" mattis? and now the president has selected mark esper since matisse's departure. he is secretary of the army. and before that, he spent years as a lobbyist at the contractor raytheon. he is taking over for patrick shan shan after the washington post ...