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Rose welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about President Trumps first 100 days. Joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. If you look at these hundred days, i think theres a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. Matthew and i both eluded to earlier, hes got bad numbers. The president has the toolbox. If you are popular you can pressure the congress. He doesnt have that. Hes backed into one part of the Republican Party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the Freedom Caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough Public Policy program am but he is running out of tools. And thats a problem. Rose we continue with Clarissa Ward Senior International correspondent for cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghani
Rose welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about President Trumps first 100 days. Joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. If you look at these hundred days, i think theres a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. Matthew and i both eluded to earlier, hes got bad numbers. The president has the toolbox. If you are popular you can pressure the congress. He doesnt have that. Hes backed into one part of the Republican Party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the Freedom Caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough Public Policy program am but he is running out of tools. And thats a problem. Rose we continue with Clarissa Ward Senior International correspondent for cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghani
Cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghanistan and gazza i know and have seen first hand the horrors of war and all people from all Different Countries and all different war zones are, of course, victims and suffering enormously. But there is something unique to the Syrian Crisis to both the david and goliath kind of element to it. Whereby you have a civilian population being bombarded from the skies, relentlessly. Where the rebel fighters do not have anything like the same kind of firepower that the russians and the regime and the iranians and hezbollah have when put together. So and to see hospitals targeted, to see Fruit Markets targeted, to see schools targeted, there is a cynicism to the syrian war that really is particularly haunting to me. Rose and we conclude this evening with author and new yorker columnist calvin trillin. I cant remember when pictures were introduced in the new yorker but a the lo of these store hees were written before there were photographs, and before there
By lunchtime our high of 80 degrees. We dont see a picture here but is there a slight, 20 to 30 percent chance of a then are storm popping up this afternoon but we will still give it a 10 because it is a nice day. And have a doughnut. National doughnut day just Little Things around here that gets us excited. 5 01 on a friday, live look at freeway pockets of volume but later on we will go the other way, singing on the way to cape may. It is friday as folks head down the shore and we are ready to open up the vine street expressway. Here we go, they have just moved barriers aside and these are first few cars, lucky won, that get a chance to roll on the vine, it has been closed overnight between the schuylkill and broad street. We will be good to go for rest of the weekend, they will come back next week as part of the demolition of the 18th street overpass. Using i95, anytime over next couple days be careful, northbound there is a new traffic pattern at girard avenue, they will move off ra