Michael Steele

That's Iran.

That's even Venezuela.

We don't really know what the hell's going on in Venezuela.

Donald Trump is the one telling us everything is fun and great and people love him and the world is wonderful.

We don't really know.

We don't know a lot of things about what's happening around us because the people who did that in the past are no longer there.

They've been fired.

They've been removed.

Their departments have been eliminated.

So you have all of these all of these things that.

You know, Brzezinski and Carter and even we go to Reagan and Iran-Contra.

You have all of these presidents who had these instruments at his disposal to advise and guide his steps.

Donald Trump does not follow any of that.

So when you're looking at the economy, when you're looking at the strategy, he's not connecting those dots that the strategy will have an impact in the economy and the economy can have an impact on the strategy.

They do go hand in hand.

You close the strait, you're going to feel it economically.

If you decide to take the pressure off the economy, you open the strait.

So it's just that for him.

doesn't compute.

Where that leaves us is where we are.