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minted dollar bills as if it is the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, and so there is a chronology of this type of elitism, don. >> you have a similar take when he bragged about having a cabinet of billionaires, this is a foreseeable consequence. >> yeah. absolutely. when trump first came into office, he was so proud to have all of the out of touch billionaires advising him on the policy, and look, this is what happens, personnel is policy. when you have a team of grifters and out of touch billionaires running the country, you end up with a shutdown with no foreseeable end in sight, because this team of buffoons and out of touch rich people didn't come in with an exit strategy and think it is no big deal to layoff 800 people, and just get a bridge loan, and putting the food on the table is the same as securing money from a private equity firm or something.
advertising wearing armez, and that her ka razzing the freshly minted dollar bills as if it is the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, and so there is a chronology of this type of elitism, don. >> you have a similar take when he bragged about having a cabinet of billionaires, this is a foreseeable consequence. >> yeah. absolutely. when trump first came into office, he was so proud to have all of the out of touch billionaires advising him on the policy, and look, this is what happens, personnel is policy. when you have a team of grifters and out of touch billionaires running the country, you end up with a shutdown with no foreseeable end in sight, because this team of buffoons and out of touch rich people didn't come in with an exit strategy and think it is no big deal to layoff 800 people, and just get a bridge loan, and putting the food on the table is the same as securing money from
>> it does add significants to the reporting like this. you report these dramas when they're there because they do sometimes affect policy, personnel is policy. i think the public does have interest in what's going on there. if it didn't donald trump wouldn't continue to play the apprentice with his staff. >> what about the particular role of kelly, certainly other folks have been expendable to him, is there anything about what we know kelly does in the white house, the role he plays, whether on a policy or personnel matter, that makes him in trump's mind any less expendable? >> the relationship status is complicated but i do think there is a degree to which he doesn't seem expendable to trump. i think that's for a couple reasons. trump clearly respects him he calls him general kelly. i think he clearly respects the somewhat better order that was brought to the white house under kelly than previously under reince priebus.
like this? >> it does add significants to the reporting like this. you report these dramas when they're there because they do sometimes affect policy, personnel is policy. i think the public does have interest in what's going on there. if it didn't donald trump wouldn't continue to play the apprentice with his staff. >> what about the particular role of kelly, certainly other folks have been expendable to him, is there anything about what we know kelly does in the white house, the role he plays, whether on a policy or personnel matter, that makes him in trump's mind any less expendable? >> the relationship status is complicated but i do think there is a degree to which he doesn't seem expendable to trump. i think that's for a couple reasons. trump clearly respects him he calls him general kelly. i think he clearly respects the somewhat better order that was brought to the white house under kelly than previously under
to move tons and tons and tons of illegal russian money out of russia and into the west. and i mean tons of money. this was multiple billions of dollars, more than 6,000 trades using multiple deutsche bank offices over a period of years. and part of the reason they got away with it for so long and to such a huge extent is because this big legit seeming bank was involved. they couldn't have done it without deutsche bank fa significasill tating these trades. and deutsche bank couldn't do it without connections in russia. because nobody gets hundred of millions, let alone multiple billions of dollars shuffled out of russia without the russian government being in on it and saying okay. in the new book "collusion" it reports out some of the apparent russian government involvement in this scheme. you know how they say in american personnel is policy? in russian politics, personnel
sharts neglect ger situation if he swings to the left to apiece then i think you will see a war. >> why are you so concerned about this? i mean, in some ways donald trump and breitbart's philosophy found each other. it's not like -- i mean, because your complication here is you're saying if there's no steve bannon somehow donald trump is going to change his mind? i mean, wasn't he there on some of these issues instipgt actively? do you not trust that he'll stick to it? >> that's a very good question and a good observation. yes, there was an overlap between some of the issues on which donald trump campaigned and some of the issues that breitbart has covered. the concern comes in for conservatives because of some of the other appointments that donald trump has made, some of the people working in the west wing, some of the people at various agencies, some of the national security officials, personnel is policy. and there was concern from the beginning when some of these appointments were being made that these people were not exactly on board with trump's
house. now he is also the chief speech writer back then for clinton. now worldwide ceo of strategic communications firm and scott jennings, cnn political commentator and former special assistant to president george w. bush. great to have you all here. we're going to stay with you for the rest of the hour because so much to analyze. first to you, tara, let's get honest about this. when you interview kellyanne conway or other aides on television, that person shouldn't be allowed on tv and what do you make of that? what do you make of how polarized the country is to the point where a lot of viewers don't even think we should hear from people like conway or scaramucci? >> i think they should be on television although they may offend some people who don't agree with them politically, we should be hearing from the people who work in the white house because at the end of the day, personnel is policy. whoever has more power in that
personalities. chris: but i don't have to tell you, personnel is policy. >> it is. trump is clearly -- even though we know from the campaign, three campaign managers, he's ruthless, you come and you go and the people who were wise about him realize that they may be here now but maybe not tomorrow. chris: there was another change this week by this president, not a change in his policy but from the previous presidents, he now says that this white house is no longer going to routinely release visitor logs, who they're meeting with as president obama did. another interesting development this weekend that were massive marchs across the country, people protesting, these were call tax marchs, people demanding that president trump release tax returns as presidents have routinely since jimmy carter and that was the subject of a tweet this morning
chris: but i don't have to tell you, personnel is policy. >> it is. trump is clearly -- even though we know from the campaign, three campaign managers, he's ruthless, you come and you go and the people who were wise about him realize that they may be here now but maybe not tomorrow. chris: there was another change this week by this president, not a change in his policy but from the previous presidents, he now says that this white house is no longer going to routinely release visitor logs, who they're meeting with as president obama did. another interesting development this weekend that were massive marchs across the country, people protesting, these were call tax marchs, people demanding that president trump release tax returns as presidents have routinely since jimmy carter and that was the subject of a tweet this morning from president trump, let's put
innocent men, women, and children in syria. megan, to your point, you are so encouraged when general mattis was named secretary of defense. to repeat and often repeated phrase, personnel is policy. this is leading his people and has a administration lead. this is rex tillerson, and general mattis. tiller's and end mattis, there is no daylight between those gentlemen. they don't want to rip up the nuclear deal, they didn't think it was wise. they also are taking a tougher stance on russia. just look at the expression on rex tillerson's face when he was over and russia. that was not a face from a john kerry era. >> trish: you think about all the democrats, this is just warmongering and this is going