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if the president says i m going to lift sanctions to have better relations with putin. you and i might disagree with that that s his prerogative. it s also out in the open. it s something much bigger. what you are getting at, that stuff and a lot of other highly objectionable and unusual stuff that donald trump does is out in the open. we re talking about someone who is at a senior enough level to have this level of access, who knows the rules and knows they can lose their job or worse. we re speaking in a climate where there are questions swirling around whether the white house tried to get a senior exdoj official indicted who happened to investigate the russia probe. that itself the climate. so this person is looking for whistleblower protection but still has decided not withstanding everything trump does in public, not understanding every tweet and statement and lie that there is something else so big they re going to go put their neck on the line here to flag this. what kin
at a moment like that, maybe people would be willing to go along with a sort of different point of view. even dick cheney said that. dick cheney seems to be to the left of barack obama on the gun issue. so i guess it s true. he has moved to the center. and it s helping him in the polls. there s no doubt about that. in our most recent job approval number, 55%, it was in the low 40s not that long ago. so this move to the center is certainly seems to be helping him with the american public. well, we don t know what s helping him. maybe it was the fact there was a tragedy. people tend to rally around the president when there s any sort of tragedy. remember after 9/11 bush s approval rating was 90% or something. i don t think that was because he got a lot smarter after he was attacked. maybe it s because obama s popularity hiked ba ed because