Today and something the president himself highlighted at the Press Conference. Take a listen. I think a lot of his views are going to be shaped by his advisers, the people around him, which is why its important to Pay Attention to these confirmation hearhearings. This is a job of such magnitude you cant do it by yourself. You are enormously reliant on a team. How you put a Team Together to make sure that they are getting you the best information and they are teeing up the options from which you will ultimately make decisions. Thats probably the most useful advice, the most constructive advice ive been able to give him. Personnel is policy, in other words. Especially for a Chief Executive who for the first time in the history of this republic has zero experience in Public Service of any kind, not the government nor the military. With policy positions all over the map, even changing from one day to the next, its nearly impossible to predict just what
trump will do as president. The only
Lets face it. The big show is going to be the Supreme Court. And i think also the planned parenthood funding. Some republicans are squishy on that. One other thing he said this morning that will cause concerns on the hill from his party was talking about a border tax, instituting a border tax on companies that ship jobs overseas. Thats something when he talked about that after the election, republicans were running away from that. Majority leader of the house, Kevin Mccarthy warned it could start a trade war. Paul ryan started to distance himself from that saying well worry about doing this in a larger tax reform bill. Trump today made it very clear that he wants to go that route. As president , you do have fairly wide latitude to impose tariffs. Does he carry through with some of those threats . I agree with karen. A lot of stuff is symbolic. We knew tpp was dead. A symbolic move. When we get into details of legislative push on obamacare and Supreme Court nominee and on doing things l
and, obviously, they have been battling a week of just terrible headlines from flynn to the reporting about the constant contacts of campaign associates with russians to puzder s nomination going down in flames and withdrawing that nomination. clearly trying to reverse course here, get back on track and get out. now i do think there s one question important here is how long is this person, since the puzder nomination went down yesterday, this person that s going to roll out, what has the vetting process been? part of the problem was the vetting was not completely thorough. a lot of things emerged after the nomination was announced whether about his issue with taxes, paying payroll taxes on a household employee, issues with his ex-wife and the allegations there that she later recanted and her appearance on the oprah show. so are they doing this almost too quickly, or is this a process that s been ongoing even
household employee. as well as allegations of domestic abuse from a divorce some three decades ago. now, those allegations started to get some light here in the senate, when senators reviewed a tape of his ex-wife who appeared on the oprah winfrey show three decades ago in disguise, to discuss those domestic abuse allegations. we have that tape. here s what she said. the thing was leaving, because once i made that break and made it public, and remember, my ex-husband was a public figure. everyone knew him and knew what he was doing. and once i made that public, he vowed revenge. he said, i will see you in court. this will never be over. you will pay for this. now, it s important to note, wolf, that lisa fierstein, his ex-wife, has withdrawn those domestic abuse allegations decades ago. and she actually sent a letter to the senators saying she regretted appearing on the oprah winfrey show, saying she
can t say the same for the pick for labor secretary. fast food executive andy puzder s nomination is in serious trouble because four republican senators are currently withholding their support. manu raju is looking into all of this right now. manu, where i teal trouble for puzder? it s in his past. there are a lot of things he his views, ideologically, don t align with a lot of folks on the left. not expecting many democrats to support him. on the but there s some liabilities that have emerged during this vetting process that have given some republicans pause. notably his hiring of an undocumented immigrant as a household employee, later paying back taxes on this on his employee after acknowledging having hired this person to work for him. but also going through a rather messy divorce back in the 1980s. and at that time, his ex-wife leveled some pretty harsh