president trump. and all we see is a growing confrontation. and certainly here in the gulf from shipping companies who are worried about more attacks on tankers, some of them even asking for military escorts, all the way to governments in moscow and across europe there is real concern that this is leading to potentially a very dangerous confrontation. mika? as they used to say on the rocky and bullwinkle cartoon show, i don t know if they played that in england but in the united states i grew up with it. rocket j. squirrel would say and now for something completely different. you re in doha, i got to ask a question, a couple of hours ago, they arrested one of the top officials, former top officials for bribery connected in awarding the 2022 world cup to
washington, d.c., is not capable of doing that on a micro level. i don t know that that s true. in 93, 94, we saw it in 2009, 2010. i think we are making substantial progress. is that being the enemy of the good? no. because we know the storm is coming in medicare and medicaid. we think it. there s a lot of things we don t know. so erskine bowles is basically no, i mean out in left field? the odds are we have to do something major. health care costs growth has slowed a lot in the last few years. yogi berra predictions are difficult especially about the future. we don t really know. it s a good bet, but the question is, is that at the top of should that be at the top of our agenda? and look, we just saw, yesterday, larry summers said had an article saying we shouldn t be so obsessed about the deficit right now. but he started the thing with
mike allen, chief white house correspondent of politico, good morning. good morning. i actually go for the richard haass six. jim vandehei says six hours is the key to being healthy and wise. i tried to crunch the numbers on it, though, because the playbook goes out at 6:00 on a saturday morning which means you ve been up since 3:00 working on it. so when do you sleep? do you go to bed at 6:00 at night? i don t believe you. don t ask too many questions. there s going to be a press conference up on capitol hill this morning. a so-called group of eight senators, very high-profile senators, going to unveil a bipartisan immigration reform, at least the outlines of some kind of a plan. take us through it a little bit. yeah, willie, this is going to be immigration week, certainly immigration month, maybe immigration year because as joe suggested at national review this weekend, i popped in there yesterday with the national review institute here in washington. more and more
elites for about 50 years now. and so sometimes you have candidates that can that can really plug into that resentment and close the deal. sarah palin could never do it. there never was the follow-through, and she just didn t have the discipline to become the transitional transformational candidate that she had the possibility of being on that speech in 2008. i think you just can t stand for resentment. you have to stand for something else. if we can only be as pure in this category as democrats who never use class warfare, never use resentment and never use rage. that s not what you said. you can t ever stand for it alone. or saying the same thing, we re agreeing right now. i think you re on steroids. just because i m a woman doesn t mean i can say something critical of sarah palin, too. i ll survive. coming up, paul krugman, republican congresswoman marsha
sandys, future wars, bond markets that we ve put ourselves in a vulnerable position. that seems to me to be a dangerous thing that you re recommending. we ve actually seen that in practice, i can say, look, if i were if i could ideally, i d say let s have a plan to reduce the budget deficit five years out, ten years out from now while at the same time doing stimulus for the economy, washington doesn t work that way. if you spend a lot of your time talking about, well, the debt and entitlements are the big problem, the message that actually what we need to do right now is promote jobs gets lost. and in fact, we ve spent the last 2 1/2 years focused entirely on arguing about the long-term deficit, entitlements and doing nothing for employment right now. that balance has got to shift. we can shift it in lots of ways. one of them is spending. the other is immigration reform, free trade, change the corporate tax rates. there s lots of things to none of those things has much chan