MSNBC Morning Joe September 9, 2019 11:08:00
The polls. make the base happy, whatever it is. and he says there is what we're doing. and then the entire bureaucracy has to work backward from that and figure out, okay, why was this a good idea? why are we going to do this? what was the rationalization? and as a result, everybody's pushing and pulling in the wrong directions because they're always one step behind whatever stray electron fired in the president's mind that morning. it's not a way to make policy. and that's how you get the president saying, gosh, what kind of people are these taliban guys some they seem really bad. because it'...