Lets face it. The big show is going to be the Supreme Court. And i think also the planned parenthood funding. Some republicans are squishy on that. One other thing he said this morning that will cause concerns on the hill from his party was talking about a border tax, instituting a border tax on companies that ship jobs overseas. Thats something when he talked about that after the election, republicans were running away from that. Majority leader of the house, Kevin Mccarthy warned it could start a trade war. Paul ryan started to distance himself from that saying well worry about doing this in a larger tax reform bill. Trump today made it very clear that he wants to go that route. As president , you do have fairly wide latitude to impose tariffs. Does he carry through with some of those threats . I agree with karen. A lot of stuff is symbolic. We knew tpp was dead. A symbolic move. When we get into details of legislative push on obamacare and Supreme Court nominee and on doing things l
beth brought that up earlier. and it is a way of reinventing or reintroducing himself. and the money that he raised so substantial, about a third of his donors are new donors so that is unique. and that is really interesting. plus we also have a great thing as a result of his candidacy which is larry david returning to saturday night live. so very crowded democratic field even though the ones that haven t announced so far. so let s go over some of it. we have iowa, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren earp and cory brown and washington governor jay inslee announced yesterday. but of course he s one of the least well-known names in the race. i think what is interesting about him, bazil, besides the fact he has to beat out the issue of name recognition is his the fact that he s running based on a platform of climate change. absolutely. and that coming into the forefront of the democratic
against hillary clinton because he didn t have the sort of deep relationship with the african-american community that she had built up over her career and they are the most important voters in the democratic primary base so if he is going to win he has to do better. he had a african-american singer and most of the people who introduced him were african-american and he talked about his history in the civil rights movement and seeing martin luther king speaking at the big march on washington, the i have a dream speech and he talked about the fact that black americans experience economic inequality differently than white americans. it is not just color blind. his message of economic empowerment is not color blind and he made that point today. so bazil, how will this play with democratic voters. just off the bat, great rally. he s clearly raised a tremendous amount of money since he announced the fact that as been alluded to is trying to
you see president trump responding asef fusively as he can in other instances. so the idea of coming back to washington to getting grounded in reality, i think this is his effort to recalibrate. but this idea of getting carried away in that situation, the press conference, he talked about a range of issues but i think the idea of trying to overcompensate for what took place in hanoi is one aspect that he s trying to make up for right now. so john, let s talk about the summit that was arguably a failure. as far as the summit goes, trump said you have to know when to walk away. do you think he really had any choice here? well a nuclear deal and a real estate deal are fundamentally different things. and the concept of walking away from things like the hanoi summit where the stakes are this high, i think that has to be something that has to be recalibrated in this aftermath of what went down in hanoi. so the idea of walking away at the highest levels when you have
recommended that he not have a security clearance, and the president gives it to him any way, and lies about it, there is something deeply wrong and disturbing and our oversight committee, that is one of the things that chairman cummings has been insisting on the white house turning information over to us and they ve thus far refused. so if that keeps happening, i m sure that we will take further action to try to get that information. now cohen offered up several names that you could investigate further. who are you most interested in speaking with? there are a variety of questions that were raised by the testimony this week. and as i said, we have both the president s son, don jr., ivanka, jared kushner. i m introducing legislation this week during the when congress returns to washington to revoke jared kushner s security clearance. because if we have a potentially compromised individual, where the intelligence professionals