Just 29 days and counting until the midterm elections, voters will get a chance soon to make their voices heard at the ballot box. Im joined by neera tanden, president and ceo for the center for american progress. Eugene and National Political reporter for the washington post. Robert, how does trump gin jin this righteous indignation . Republicans were worried if this whole kavanaugh election process was going to alarm suburban voters. Theyre running on grievance. Theyre looking at the process and the protests outside the capitol as the confirmation vote went down and they think they can run against what Mitch Mcconnell is calling the mob. Its something going back to Richard Nixon in 68, running on this law and order message. Right. Against the trump resistance movement. Were looking at Ruth Bader Ginsburg there, the justice of the Supreme Court. John roberts, of course, there and a couple of other justices. Theyre all coming in now to join in the celebration. They look very happy, gen
America as the nation prepares to celebrate Martin Luther king, jr. s birthday. Aaron sorkin has turned the last three years changing to kill a mockingbird into a broadway sensation. What that can teach us about race intolerance. But first heres my take. As we watch britain go through brexit, its easy to view the decision to depart the European Union as an act of foolishness, a selfinflicted wound that will impoverish britons for years to come. Europe is after all britains largest market, taking in half of the countrys exports. Losing special access to it is a high price to pay for some symbolic gains in sovereignty. The brexit debacle sheds a light on europe itself and one that sees it as stop working, for many of the people at its western european core. I say this as an Ardent Supporter of the European Union, the u. S. And the eu have been the two main . Gens behind a world based on open markets, liberty and law, human rights and global warfare. These values will likely be eroded if
Billion. Thats not even a wall, a barrier. Im going to tell this tonight and well get back into this tomorrow. Any republican that supports this garbage compromise, you will have to explain. The other wing of the president s party does not agree. Fearful of a second shutdown, they want the president to sign the compromise. There is no way that the country should be put through another disastrous government shutdown. My hope is that the president will sign the bill into law. I hope we have this behind us and we dont shut down again. Shutdowns never work for anything. This one has reaffirmed my belief that shutdowns are bad, period. I hope the president can sign it. If he does, he does have some other provisions in the law which we have passed and appropriated funds for that he could use for other physical barriers if he thought that was important. So the big question were asking today is the only question that really matters. Will donald trump sign the deal . Joining me, politicos Senio
Gained access to irs transcripts. Mr. Trump spent a decade in the red. To quote the report. Mr. Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part, by his selfspun narrative of Business Success and setbacks triup fantly overcome. Hes attributed his first run bankruptcies to the recession that took hold in 1990. But ten years of Tax Information obtained by the New York Times paints a different, and far bleeker picture. The picture painted of the president in the New York Times is a far cry from the master deal maker mr. Trump held himself out as. From the moment hes been in the public eye. And it is a far cry from the image mr. Trump portrayed to his supporters from the day he announced his run for presidency. Take a look at that. We need a truly great leader now. We need a leader that wrote the art of the deal. All of my life ive heard that a truly successful person, a really really successful person and even modestly successful cannot run for public office. Just cant happen. Im really ric
Of his office, epstein would have walked free and suggested a different climate on victims of Sexual Assault in 2002 was to blame. Do you make the same agreement today . So these questions are always very difficult because we now have 12 years of knowledge and hind sig hindsight and we live in a very different world. Todays world treats victims very, very differently. Todays world does not allow some of the victim shaming that could have taken place at trial 12 years ago. Todays world understands that when interviewing victims when eliciting testimony, that testimony can sometimes be contradictory. That memories are difficult. So i dont think we can say take a case that is this old and fully know how it would play out today. But it wasnt 1910. One of the most egregious aspects of the sweetheart deal negotiated by acosta for epstein was that it kept victims in the dark. Asked today if he would apologize to epsteins victims, acosta said he would not and he did not. Our colleague Savannah