Page 21 - Command Performance News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Moment. it was a very good day. precisely because this man drips of credibility. john kelly is regarded by everybody who worked with him and reporters in the room seeing and meeting him for the first time as somebody who is a man of integrity, a patriot. somebody is smart and been through a lot. he speaks with a sort of natural authority of a general. i think it was very effective yesterday with the press corps making his case. needling them in a more gentle way than president trump had done, and look, the press corps loves a good surprise. when you sit through the briefings day after day afte...

Trump respects general kelly as much as he does. i think that's probably helpful. you saw there in the clip that we just played some pretty smart diplomacy, too. any time you are asked about congress, the natural inclination is to beat the heck out of them. they're at 9% or 13% according to the polls. he knows he has to get a job done and a key part of particularly this tax reform package. john kelly is talking to people on the phone all the time. he will have to push it through. he doesn't want to alienate him. >> bill: i wonder if we see more of him? >> i thought he was very effective. i tho...

Puerto rico. >> and we should note that fema came out and disagreed with the president's tweets saying fema will be with puerto rico, the u.s. virgin islands, every state and territory impacted by a disaster every day supporting throughout their response and recovery. and general kelly in that command performance today in the briefing room also reiterated fema's message, not the president's message. but i wonder what you make of something melissa said, the sadistic nature of seeming to take pleasure in a fight with an island where 96% of the island still without power. they're not watching tv,...

From faulty towers of american politics. he was -- you sometimes got the feeling you were watching a man who was under such pressure from behind him and in front of him that you weren't sure he'd make it through the briefing. to a certain extent, a test of pure human emotion you have to give him a lot of credit. i have known him for a lot of years he's a good guy that we know. but it gets back to the pressures of the job. i mean, scaramucci debut. >> really? the pressure of the job or the pressure of this president? >> no no. i mean the pressures of the job under this president. >> right. >> y...

Thought that sean spicer's press conference yesterday was a di sas ter from the democracy perspective of not answering questions. what i thought is that donald trump thought it was a command performance and attacking the media and setting up an altertive media line, and then leaving. >> and he started with a lengthy speech of how great the president's trip was to saudi arabiaed -- to saudi arabia, israel, and the west bank, and it is a long length of how important it was. >> and my colleague said that historic was used three times to describe three different moments on the trip. look, sean spi...