president. you think those numbers, howard, are going to help the democratic party going forward at all? yeah, i think they will. i think the biggest help to the democrats going forward is trump is going to be unbelievably erratic and scare the hell out of a lot of people who voted for him. and they already are. if a lot of those folks in kentucky and west virginia lose their health insurance, which is absolutely going to happen, because those are the two states that are most dependent on obamacare, there s going to be hell to pay for the republican party. if they go and try to privatize medicare, there s going to be hell to pay for the republican party. and there are going to be some smart republicans who aren t going to want to take that risk. but there s going to be a lot of talk about that. trump s going to be on twitter every night with some outrageous thing. that s what they have to worry about. howard dean, rick tyler, good to have both of you with us. coming up, response
speak, 30,000 families are spending the first holiday season, including 49 in orlando, without a loved one, who they lost the gun violence. and what they deserve is a dialogue, a continued dialogue in congress on this issue, not efforts to silence action. and that s what this is. this is an effort to silence action. so, we re as energized as ever to keep speaking on this issue. and i also, ayman, would say, the american people are not interested in seeing john lewis arrested for standing up for what s right. they re interested in seeing american it s congress, stand up for them. fair enough. i think republicans may push back on that a little bit. congressman, and say, this is not about the issue. this is about decorum on the floors of the house chamber. so they re talking about making sure there s some kind of order and decorum without what they may consider gimmicks of social media and live streaming. what would be your response to those who are saying, this is just disruption to
displayed in one of his golf clubs. so there s going to be those past issues. going forward, there are all sorts of sources of conflicts of interest, including, as you know, as his businesses. he says he s going to sort of step away from the businesses. but he knows what properties he owns and what government actions can make those properties more comfortable and companies know what they can do to direct money to trump businesses. there will still be a lot of other avenues for conflict. josh and ben, thank you both for joining us. while we know that stephen miller is writing the speech yeah, as we were saying, we know he ll be writing that peach and interesting to see how that plays out on inauguration day. after the break, the death of carrie fisher, legendary for playing one of the most iconic female characters in all of science fiction, princess leia. we ll have details about that, straight aad. healthy, free, the worlbefore me, the long bwn path beforee leading wherever i cho
in newport, rhode island. and i don t know why you would deliberately start stirring up what is a good and productive relationship. do you think he sees japan as an economic competitor to the united states? and so he wants to rattle that cage a little bit? he certainly has conveyed that, but the days of worrying about the japanese beati us at everything are long gone, it seems to me. those were concerns of the 80s, when it seemed that japan could out-produce us in cars and technology, cameras, you name it. and japan has suffered economic i want to say, instability not instability, but, they ve sort of plateaued, economically. yeah. let me ask you really quickly about the u.s. military relationship. obviously, a lot of controversy surrounding u.s. bases in japan, particularly in okinawa. do you envision that with a trump administration, that is going to be a heightened point of contention, if there are greater calls to shut down some
immigration reform and jobs and regulation cutting, things like that. that may end up being what those supporters really decide, whether or not he s followed through on those big campaign promises. josh, let me ask you about this particular slogan and if there s going to be a political price for donald trump to pay, if he does not follow up with really draining the swamp. there was this kind of couple of days ago with newt gingrich saying, donald trump, that was just a slogan, may not even really play out or it s become a low priority for him on the administration. donald trump fired back saying, that s not the case. if the job market continues to improve and if wages rise robustly and people file like their own economic fortunes are going well, then, no, he will not play a political price for this. if economic performance is poor and people don t see themselves getting ahead, absolutely, he s look at this and see that he filled his cabinet with the same kind of insider washington