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Resignation and her efforts to install possibly dina powell as her successor come at a time when this administration really can t stand to lose any more ground among female voters. yeah. i think that s part of what makes the timing of this so difficult. partially it s because nikki haley is just such a popular person in the administration. i would put her probably alongside defense secretary james mattis as being somebody who is liked by both the right and the left. is also well known to the american people. and is viewed as something of a steadying force, perhaps, by your average american out there who doesn t maybe follow politics on the regular, but, you know, pops in from time to time and sees her talking about issues like north korea, sees her at the united nations. but you re right, there is also, you know, losing that kind of person four weeks before an election in which the conduct of the administration could be on the ballot, you re also losing the most high-profile arguably ....
Process element so he can have a fair hearing. and trump trashed that all over the place saying let s just take the weapons. you know, this is i mean and that s just one thing aside from all the internal conflicts, what you mentioned yesterday with people asking for help in regards to russia meddling in future elections. things are spiraling out of control. i would hope that members of congress could be a steadying force. but which all appearances everyone is just in duck and cover mode. thank you, scott and amanda i appreciate your time thank you. i want to bring in fareed zakaria. you just heard me read off the list of huge stories. that s not all of them. these are self-inflicted wounds. i know the white house and folks say this is fake news. but everything we reported has had a consequence. jared kushner s security clearance. you know, kelly and downgrading and changing the way security clearances are given. hope hicks and her relationship with rob porter, and you know ....
And trump trashed that all over the place saying let s just take the weapons. you know, this is i mean and that s just one thing aside from all the internal conflicts, what you mentioned yesterday with people asking for help in regards to russia meddling in future elections. things are spiraling out of control. i would hope that members of congress could be a steadying force. but which all appearances everyone is just in duck and cover mode. thank you, scott and amanda i appreciate your time thank you. i want to bring in fareed zakaria. you just heard me read off the list of huge stories. that s not all of them. these are self-inflicted wounds. i know the white house and folks say this is fake news. but everything we reported has had a consequence. jared kushner s security clearance. you know, kelly and downgrading and changing the way security clearances are given. hope hicks and her relationship with rob porter, and you know what she said to the committee. white lies. ....
They never seem to know, including kelly, everything that will come from the president s twitter feed, or from his mouth. one of my favorite parts of your story, and a great story, was the amazing anecdote they re having a white house staff meeting about taxes and they re all waiting to hear what the new chief of staff could think about the whole tax situation and he basically says i pay taxes and i don t like it. i m paraphrasing, but i wopnder how a chief of staff, for someone like donald trump, who they hope will be guided by a more steadying force, can he stay a-political? we ll have to see. it is early in his tenure. i think it is telling when you look at his time at the department of homeland security, he reflected the president s objectives with the travel ban, muslim majority countries. he really executed that instead ....
North korea at all when he was in malaysia, the stop before the refuelling in guam. as i was talking it in real time and speaking to reporter on the trip, trying to figure out why hadn t he mentioned it given the heightened alarm about north korea. it was because it was not coordinated with the state department. michael, you wrote a column for the washington post entitled rex tillerson is a huge disappointment. you said if cabinet members are to be judged by the gap between expectation and performance, rex tillerson is among the worst, he was supposed to be one of the adults in the room, a steadying force, but tillerson is ineffectual and destabilizing, unfamiliar with the workings of government, unwilling to provide inspirational leadership, disconnected from american values and seemingly hostile to the department in his care. that s tough stuff. yeah, i think that it is pretty broadly shared, including at the state department by the way. this is a leader that we re in the middle of ....