newspaper article or saw one transcript and therefore throw the guy out of office. i think it is a long process and there has to be more in my opinion. you re just not there yet? but let me ask you i m not there yet because we haven t gotten far yet because other than headlines like the transcript that we read which is really upsetting. look, i m not going to support trump. i didn t support him last time and i m not going to support him again. i don t think he s conducting himself in this office and not just these things but dividing our country but that is a long way from impeachment and the jury is out in my mind as to what will happen. i just want to get the facts. because that is the way to proceed. alisyn, if they go full barrel and do things that divide this country even more and this is a country seriously divided this has to be handled appropriately where republicans would say if, in fact, if they move forward and if they would say begrudgingly, yeah, this is a problem.
they thought they were only doing what all the other countries were doing when they learned that they were accidentally kicking out a lot more russian diplomats than other countries were, a new round of tough u.s. sanctions against russia. the trump administration announced them but then didn t do it. they slow walked those sanctions for months. it was only after a round of critical reporting earlier this summer made clear that although the trump administration had announced those sanctions as a result of the skripal work. it was almost a year and a half that the trump administration was finally shamed into implementing those sanctions, begrudgingly and belatedly. you know when they put those sanctions into effect? last month, august of 2019
he s like a mini trump out there beating the maga drum, and it looks now like he s going to be the one to inherit that mantle whether the president likes it or not. you talk about the fact that the president rates how they are performing, given how they perform in interviews on television. for the most part he s always thought ivanka trump had outperformed her brothers, in particular don jr. now things are changing a bit in the president s mind, why? ivanka s source of status in the family was largely pegged to her ability to be a good surrogate for her father. she generated a lot of positive coverage for trump and the trump organization. as her media coverage has curdled while she s been in the white house, trump has started to reassess things, and now even he can kind of see that don jr. is more talented on the campaign trail, has more of a natural connection to his base and kind of begrudgingly has started to come around to the idea that don jr. is closer to where the trump empi
they re kind of like [inaudible] [laughter] they had nothing to say. greg: they actually had jim acosta actually complimented him begrudgingly, and i m not even sure what that means, kat, begrudgingly. no. [laughter] i know what it means. greg: yes. i think the biggest compliment though for trump had to have been the big balloon baby, because i think that you can measure your influence in the efforts that people are going to try and troll you. greg: yeah. like, i ve never been in the market for one [laughter] but i d imagine that balloon baby is not cheap. greg: no, it s not. [laughter] like, somebody probably missed their family vacation to put all that money toward balloon baby fund, that s how much he s affecting them. [laughter] i would love it if i went to another country and there was a big balloon baby of me. i would not go see any other sites. [laughter] [cheers and applause] i don t get that though.
they re kind of like [inaudible] [laughter] they had nothing to say. greg: they actually had jim acosta actually complimented him begrudgingly, and i m not even sure what that means, kat, begrudgingly. no. [laughter] i know what it means. greg: yes. i think the biggest compliment though for trump had to have been the big balloon baby, because i think that you can measure your influence in the efforts that people are going to try and troll you. greg: yeah. like, i ve never been in the market for one [laughter] but i d imagine that balloon baby is not cheap. greg: no, it s not. [laughter] like, somebody probably missed their family vacation to put all that money toward balloon baby fund, that s how much he s affecting them. [laughter] i would love it if i went to another country and there was a big balloon baby of me. i would not go see any other sites. [laughter] [cheers and applause] i don t get that though.