donald trump that's in part due to the president's picks for ambassador to his 1st appointment rick grinnell irritated his hosts from the get go. german companies doing business in iran should wind down operations immediately never tell a host country what to do. we are not a banana republic to. an extent to build one sided tightening of the tone. big shoes to fail to be sure but if president trump gets his way the next u.s. ambassador to germany will be retired army colonel douglas macgregor no shrinking violet when it comes to controversy these people are not coming to assimilate or become europeans quite the opposite they're coming to take over whatever they can get they're coming to benefit to consume and to establish themselves inside other people's countries with the goal of eventually turning europe into islamic state the germans thanks to us don't feel obligated to defend themselves government it seems more concerned about providing free services to millions of unwanted boys women vader's to be bought but it goes about its own armed forces that the defense of his country clearly a ma

rick grinnell says bringing in rice, though, is risky. >> susan rice was passed over for secretary ofobama, biden team. she's got more baggage than lax. here's the fact of the matter. she has been in the front row seat for two genocides, one in rieu wanda when she -- rowanda, when she was assistant secretary of state and two when she was in syria while she was the national security advisor. while she that was the front -- while she was in the front row seat, she never got out of her chair. todd.jillian: a fox news alert, federal agents arrive in bend, oregon to clear out hundreds of protesters, i.c.e. officials say demonstrators blocked busses in a hotel parking lot for hours, carrying two men who were arrested for their violent criminal history. in portland, police say rioters shot fireworks and lit a fire around the federal courthouse has the city faces more than 70 nights of unrest. todd: president trump calling on democratic rivals to condemn antifa after the group's website is linked to joe biden's website. jillian: carley shimkus joins us live. carley: president trump taking a h

replace by a highly political interim appointment, rick grinnell, who spoke at the republican convention. and then replaced finally with a new permanent director, john radcliffe, from texas. no background in the intelligence committee. a true trump loyalist. this is what happened. dan coats, might not have agreed with him. cases where i wish he would have spoken up more. but basically, like others in the senior positions in the administration they understood this was not trump's play thing. the u.s. government works for the u.s. people. reports to the president, of course. but isn't simply a political play thing of the president. we have a director of national intelligence who doesn't recognize that. i think you could say the same about other senior positions in the cabinet. when trump asks for four more years, people have to think that's what the four more years are going to be like. it is not going to be like the first two or three years in the administration when there were still some checks. the guardrails are gone. >> right now it is crucial to have confidence in the results of the

the screen, president trump made history for lgbt americans, and nobody knows that better than rick grinnellcabin republicans, but he has also called donald trump the most pro-gay president in history. >> it's total garbage. you don't get to be a leader of the lgbtq community and leave large chunks of them out. we don't have to guess what kind of president donald trump is for lgbtq americans. we don't have to believe richard grinnell on how donald trump will treat lgbtq americans. we already know because we've seen the policies in action. this is a president who fired thousands of transgender people who made the incredible sacrifice for the u.s. military. this is a president that said same-sex couples should be barred from adopting children. this is a president that four months after the shooting at pulse nightclub tried to rip nondiscriminating republicans, lgbtq folks, from going to see a doctor. to aisha's point, there is really no choice here, there is no binary, there is no decision to engage or disengage. we have an amateur fascist in the white house who has lgbtq folks squarely in his