americans think about these big cats in washington, smoking cigars eating steaks at charlie paurms and flying around in private jets. it encapsulates all they think is wrong with washington. for a guy who came into washington claim that he was going to drain the swamp and that he has a billionaire cabinet who is flying around in private jets at the taxpayers expense, it goes hard against his brand. and democrats will be smart to sort of pound republicans and pound the president, undermining key elements of his brand about sort of draining the swamp and being different here because i think in the midterms it could pay off with undermining their brand. but i still think democrats and i know the chairman is going to agree with me. i still think democrats need a positive message about themselves, but i think we do have a line of attack on the republicans going into the midterm and the president going into the midterm, but i just
permanent republican majority at that time. and what we saw unfolding was a cultural corruption. we democrats pounded republicans around a culture of corruption and undermined their brand. i see some similar elements right now going into this next midterm where, look, you know, trump talked about draining the swamp. the chairman knows better than anyone else, when americans think about the big cats in washington, they think about the big cats smoking cigars and flying around in private jets. it encapsulates all they think is wrong with washington. for a guy who came into washington claiming that he was going to drain the swamp, and that he has a billionaire cabinet who s flying around in private jets at the taxpayers expense, it goes hard against his brand. democrats would be smart to sort of pound republicans and pound
right now going into this next midterm where, look, you know, trump talked about draining the swamp. the chairman knows better than anyone else, when americans think about the big cats in washington, they think about the big cats smoking cigars and flying around in private jets. it encapsulates all they think is wrong with washington. for a guy who came into washington claiming that he was going to drain the swamp, and that he has a billionaire cabinet who s flying around in private jets at the taxpayers expense, it goes hard against his brand. democrats would be smart to sort of pound republicans and pound the president, undermining key elements of his brand about draining the swamp and being different. because i think in the midterm, it could pay off with undermining their brand. but i still think democrats, and i know the chairman is going to agree with me, i still think
particularly about the billionaire cabinet. what they really enjoy is this disruption. they see him as shaking things up with the courts, shaking things up with congress, and every time he gets into these tussels, even if he loses, they still see him as disrupting washington so he s still got the base there. jesse, it seems president trump has changed position on a number of issues. take a listen and then we ll talk. i ll tell you about nate oh it s obsolete and we re paying too much money. i said it was obsolete. it s no longer obsolete. they are grand masters of currency manipulation. president xi wants to do the right thing. we had a very good bonding. you know, jesse, it s not just nato and china, he s taken a much harder line on russia. how do you account for these changes and is there concrete policy behind these changes? yeah, i mean it s a good reel right there. it was amazing earlier this week on one day president trump flipping on four issues. another one being the
what s interesting is when donald trump was elected, kind of the conventional wisdom is that he upended this belief that what the base wanted were tax cuts for the rich and deregulation it and it showed us that trump voters want benefits and want medicaid and they are on medicare or medicaid and benefitted greatly from obamacare and the expansion and want these things. how is it that donald trump is able to turn around and sell what really is as a billionaire cabinet that is openly saying we don t want to fund meals on wheels. is this just i don t understand how trump specifically is able to sell that to his base. when you talk to some of those who voted for him as it has been shown recently by some of our journalists, he made a lot of promises and they