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it's interesting that all of a sudden now it's first-hand information of where earlier when we talked about the other case, you didn't want to hear that. >> the whistle-blower was not first-hand. >> colonel was in the room. at any rate, i do think that rex tillerson had an idea of what our foreign policy should look like and we do know the president is mercurial, he is capricious. >> her claim is not just hanging out there, was asked about it two hours ago on "fox & friends "fox & friends." >> that is so rex. is typical and i'm not going to fight over it. you notice, neither one of them denied sitting me down and saying that. what you have are two unelected people who thought they knew more than the president. i will say they both love america but they were undermining a president and undermining our constitution. >> bill: she was asked about impressed about it and she did not back down. >> i believe nikki haley, i
this statement. it's coming at a time when you're seeing actually a lot of people from the government stepping forward in a big way in this impeachment inquiry. just yesterday bill taylor, the acting ambassador of ukraine, fiona hill, george kent, a number of others have come forward under subpoena or by request to give their stories in a way that sort of comport with what this anonymous op ed originally said a year ago, which is there are people inside the government who are trying to steer the government to a safe place, as they see it, with a president they view as mercurial. >> i want to get to your piece but sieve een other books come out. james comey wrote a book, andrew mccabe. why do you think this book should be any different or will it be? >> obviously the anonymous thing about give it extra cache.
from helping they are actively seeking to thwart america's policies towards iran. in "the art of war", he writes that victory is only possible with a leader who knows when to pick his battles and is prepared. defeat is all but guaranteed with the leader who is reckless, mercurial and prideful. timely analysis from the sixth century b.c. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" klum this week. let's get started. ♪ let's bring in today's panel. there is much to discuss. anne marie slaughter the directorful policy planning at the state department and policy and ceo of the think tank. roberten wright a writer for the new yorker one of the reporters on the middle east and martin
he is known, a, to be polarizing, b, to be brittle at times with his relationships, but c, he is also known as a survivor to work the system behind the scenes, if you will, to be a bureaucratic survivor and to work the bureaucracy to do things that maybe others at the table didn't want to happen. is that what you're pointing out here? >> it's true, but bolton is a master at diplomacy. it occurred not in a galaxy far, far away with respect to basic rules of diplomacy. they occurred in a system which was relatively predictable. this is not predictable. you have a mercurial, idiosyncratic president who acts on his ego and personal sensibilities. this was not an environment which played to bolton's strength, clearly. and i really do believe that
you have duly elected members of congress that represent their constituents. in any other universe you'd have lawmakers telling the president what he should do, what he should support. what i'm hearing is, president trump is mercurial. the last time he changed course on that spending deal, the government spending deal that torpedoed the government into a multiweek shutdown. so that's fresh on their minds. they don't want to get in the front of any major cultural issue given that. the other part of this is that you have a handful, maybe dozens or so, of senate republicans who were here in 2013, who voted against the manchin-toomey bill that expands federal background checks. those members are still here. if they turn around and vote for it, they'll need political cover from president trump so they're not k567ing it from the nra and more the right wing fringe elements of the republican
can do at this point because he lies to the american public every single day. we can't rely on what the president says, and i know that often he contradicts himself on a regular basis not only just the lies but the contradictions. that's why when you have a president who's that mercurial, who changes his mind at the drop of a hat, we an unstable situation in our country. >> it creates unstability certainly because we don't know where he stands or mitch mcconnell stands exactly. listen to what the president said yesterday about mitch mcconnell. >> i am convinced that mitch wants to do something. i've spoken to mitch mcconnell. he's a good man. he wants to do something. i think very strongly he wants to do background checks and do i too and i think a lots of republicans do. >> he says he thinks that mitch mcconnell wants to do something. >> maybe the republican should have faith in the president they have been supporting and
after charlottesville. we kept saying this is as low as donald trump can go. i think it was you and zig miller with the associated press that reported that actually people that have been concerned by donald trump's management style, both inside and outside of the white house, have actually noted over the past two weeks that if it's possible he's become even more mercurial and that his management style has become even more dangerously erratic. >> well, joe, what we have seen is the utter disappearance of any guard rails around him. and in first year or so of his term there were the grown-ups in the room whether it was defense secretary mattis or mcmaster or secretary of state tillerson for a time who would try to keep the president on track. try to keep -- push book on some of his more out there directives or ignore them altogether, something that mattis would do time after time and dni coats
and he's pretty mercurial. i don't say that necessarily in a bad way, but he's a pretty mercurial guy. >> i don't want to say mercurial in a bad way. mercurial is the worst thing you can call kim jong-un, you need to buy a thesaurus or read a book about north korea or absorb your own intelligence community's assessment of what life is like in north korea. earlier in the week, he said he trusted kim as well. maybe you think he's just killing his own people and it's not america's problem. it's not just north koreans whose deaths he's responsibility for, but the president doesn't see it that way. here's what he said yesterday whennee was asked about the death of otto warmbier in north korea. >> what happened in is horrible. i really believe something very bad happened to him. i don't think that the top leadership knew about it. and i did speak about it. and i don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen. just wasn't to his advantage to
he's a real leader, and he's pretty mercurial. i don't say it necessarily in a bad way, but he is a pretty mercurial guy. >> i don't want to say mercurial in a bad way, i don't want to say anything bad. if mercurial is the worst thing you can call kim jong-un, you need to read a book about north korea or perhaps read and absorb your own intelligence community's assessment of what life is like in north korea. earlier in the week mr. trump said he trusted kim as well. now, maybe you think, well, kim jong-un is just killing his own people and it is not really america's problem. well, it is not just north koreans whose deaths he is responsible for, but the president doesn't see it that way. here is what he said yesterday when asked about the murder of otto warmbier in custody in north korea. >> what happened is horrible. i really believe something very bad happened to him and i don't think that the top leadership knew about it, and i will -- i did speak about it, and i don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen. just wasn't to his advantage to
throughout the entire 2016 campaign. he told that to the "new york times" times", to cnn and nbc. this admission means what? >> it means there is certainly in hind sight a lot of basis for the counter intelligence concerns. and i think it is very important to notice what giuliani was saying about the timeline of the answers given to mueller. he is saying we only answered up until the time he became president. that leaves room that maybe the conversations continued. giuliani's style here is a little mercurial and see what sticks kind of style. it is obviously of great concern is the president's timeline for when he is involved is moving later and later into him becoming president. >> what do you make of giuliani's argument that he may or may not remember when the