reporting from inside the west wing. jeffrey, now he s moving, and you can expect more aggressive moves as they reorganize. something fun, not a lot of fun things the president does, i guess there are, but a fun thing the president does, you get to appoint ambassadors. unless they have the scandal, but mostly up side, and biden has a real opportunity here. 44 spots at embassies are open. five of them from the big 20, g20 countries. we can expect a spate of those coming, so lots of action as we wait for that official indication that he s going to run as you well know from his own reporting, every person in the building expects it to go. though probably not a final word for a few months. the biden people after keeping the senate, they feel like that buys them time. but you see more of a spring in the president s step.
inside the west wing, but hopefully we ll have more of these briefings and we ll get more answers out of the white house press office. something we haven t had in quite some time. this is wonderful and we welcome them. jim, thank you. stand by. dana, on the news of this budget that the president has given to congress today, this whole piece about the 8.6 billion for construction of the border wall. my question to you really is why is he bringing this up again? is is it to put up this big 20 fight? does he need the money? is it krrk, all of the above. all of the above. does he need the money? he wants the money and he wants to make a point on not just the wall, which obviously is the thing his aides describe as the policy extension of himself at this point even though it started out in the campaign as a rhetorical political tool. it s morphed into something much bigger in the president s eyes. but even more broadly as jim said, it is always a political
tek of his time when i was calling in to bubba, but everything else is fair game. ironically, i think they ve made the case for the democrats saying we re not going to give fox news the debate a single debate. they ve also made the case and they ve also you know, thrown a life raft to omar with these comments. so if you can t take issue, consistently with omar question ing will whether a jewish politics has do a loyalty, where at the same time, you re saying one that wears a hijab can have no loyalty to the u.s. constitution. so you take issue with the one wearing a yam kika, but not a hijab. it s called hi pockry say, stupidity and doing a great big favor to omar and the democrats. on that issue and the debate issue. because you know, at this point, they can say yeah, of course we re not going give these
the grave. all right? lamb chop just turned herself in and morris is now with the kids in the book. i m going to see him in cirque du soleil next in a unitard. come on, dick. bill: can, france, have you ever been there, miller. [ laughter ] we re having trouble getting out of the box tonight. listen, i have never been to can but i think what s happening here is netanyahu wants to have the big 20 together if he has to do iran this weekend. that would be the fantasy. i think they are actually going over to discuss this one of the main topics in the article i read is this financial transactions tact. and i find it interesting that barack obama plays lip service to the occupy wall street crowd after the snow storm this weekend. chap lip service. but i guarantee you he is going to vote against that tax. because he is in the bag for wall street as much as anybody. and, by the way. can i ask you a question as a new yorker?
over to g 7 to vote against that financial transaction tax. when did it go from g 7 to g-20? who in the hell is 20? lego land. go to g-64 like the march madness and the ncaa. ball in there and give these people a break. this is a big party. this is a big can. yea. here we are. where is she lives around here. the greek army is here. they are in the with a helmet and clogging. let s let them in. bill: i know. business is good in can. now, the view wants to host the g.o.p. debate. the view ladies want to do that. and you say? well, listen, i don t hold these debates that sacred that i would rule that out of hand. listen, you billy play an odd part in this. this is why barbara walters freaked that day on the brand. when they walked off on you,