You are on two committees that make it especially interesting now, health and Foreign Relations, but two issues that have been to the fore this week and will be so for a long time. Relations, but two issues that e i want to talk about the resistance, and then i want to talk about some policy, especially the areas that your committees oversee, whether labor, health care, education, or Foreign Policy issues. You can take questions, that you were at the senate until 2 30 this morning. The third night in a row. I heard you are obsessed with diet mountain dew. This is to help you get senator murphy kind of like a warm mountain dew. I am going to put that down. Mr. Hohmann when you were elected, you were the youngest senator, and now you think have been eclipsed one or two guys. You have proven your stamina this week. I want to start with a question. You were at the senate this night pulling allnighters. Planned parenthood is planning mass protests, the fourth weekend of Major National activ
Revolutionary at a time when people on the left and the right are handwringing about what to do about donald trump who has become president. You wrote a book about how to get things done. Tell me why you wanted to do this project. When did you start this project . Guest the day after the election. I had meetings planned with my agent, bob burnett, at the big publishers in new york the day after the election which i send donald trump would lose by 10 00 at night. I was probably the only person i can be sure, but i was probably the only person in 30 rock at nbc that night who voted for donald trump and i thought i would be home by 10 00 to do my readers show the next morning. We stayed until 2 a. M. And did much of the next morning. I saw the president speak at two am and was stunned, and if there was, i can sing this paper, if the meeting was like the nfl would also be in the concussion protocol. I went to all this may be expecting the to say thank you very much, we dont need a book on
Over the course of the 2016 campaign, we heard from candidate trump time and time again that hed be tough on wall street. He held rallies, lambasting elites, criticizing bankers and Hedge Fund Managers. He said, quote, im not going to let wall street get away with murder. Wall street has caused tremendous problems for us. That is candidate trump. So what does President Trump do when he takes office . Lets go to the tape. The Hedge Fund Manager the wall street investor, its the powerful protecting only the powerful. Im fighting for you. Hes already started attacking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which holds powerful people accountable. Thats a broken promise. Just picture a wall street boardroom, filled with special interests and imagine the look on their faces when you tell them, you are fired. He lied. The chief Financial Advisor comes from Goldman Sachs and his cabinet is filled with billionaires and wall street insiders. Another broken promise. Im not going to let wall st
Over the course of the 2016 campaign, we heard from candidate trump time and time again that hed be tough on wall street. He held rallies, lambasting elites, criticizing bankers and Hedge Fund Managers. He said, quote, im not going to let wall street get away with murder. Wall street has caused tremendous problems for us. That is candidate trump. So what does President Trump do when he takes office . Lets go to the tape. The Hedge Fund Manager the wall street investor, its the powerful protecting only the powerful. Im fighting for you. Hes already started attacking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which holds powerful people accountable. Thats a broken promise. Just picture a wall street boardroom, filled with special interests and imagine the look on their faces when you tell them, you are fired. He lied. The chief Financial Advisor comes from Goldman Sachs and his cabinet is filled with billionaires and wall street insiders. Another broken promise. Im not going to let wall st
This isnt that there were discussions. There was nothing wrong or or inappropriate about those discussions. It purely came down to a matter of trust, thats it. Thank you, guys, see you tomorrow. Ashley there you have it, a contentious but certainly not combative sean spicer, the White House Press secretary basically saying again and again and again, 28 times over, that in his opinion and in the president s opinion our former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, did nothing wrong when he spoke to the Russian Ambassador even about sanctions. The rob for the white house was the problem for the white house was he was not truthful when he was questioned about it. In other words, he didnt tell the truth, and it was that erosion of trust that was ultimately the downfall of Michael Flynn, and thats why President Trump asked for his resignation late last night. He lied, he said, to Vice President mike pence, and for that he just, there was just no going back. He did not trust Michael Flynn