stop here, you are not clear what your bottom line is, you start throwing around critiques of one group or another, you invite the blowbacks she got. i thought your column was excellent in that it simplified a complex situation. i heard from many radio list listeners friends i suspect. is it fair so say her mistake is not in criticizing israel by ae lying on a a trope as a means to do so? you have remember my critique is ilhan omar represents i believe the biggest jewish community in the whole upper mid-west. my hometown of st. louis park and its environs in minneapolis. it was an interesting community. we spun off very little people, al franken, the cohen brothers, michael sand el and sherryno ne
home. we also discussed heavily expanded trade. what do you think that s about? people looking at him and saying if you have an ally, who is an ally for years in the middle east, including the kurds, who could lose their lives when we withdraw, it might be a good idea to give them a couple of months heads up to say when you re leaving. it s interesting to say i had a long and productive call with the turkish leadership today after you announce that you re withdrawing. my question is whether the u.s. military and our allies knew beforehand. and my sense, for example, from mr. mcgurk s resignation, is that the people who were involved in this didn t know that this was happening. you can withdraw, but you ve got to tell people before you re withdrawing so they have a chance to prepare. there have been blowbacks from allies, members of the president s own party on capitol hill. yet you have countries like turkey, and russia, cheering the president s decision to leave syria. why? beca
to testify. and more over, there s just no reason to handle it now. you just wait and see where the chips fall. and if some point later the president wants to pardon, he can. as far as being unprecedented, george bush sr. pardoned the day before the trial. it s been done. there s no question it s the inherent power the president has. there s no real check on it. i just can t get that outrage though. the answer to it is a political answer, which is it was done publicly and the president can suffer blowbacks if he does it. and we had a myriad of instances where the obama justice department we had eric holder held in contempt of congress over the documents, i think it was fast and furious. there s no moral outrage.
executive or attorney/client privilege on any document. the strategy from the trump s lawyers has been let s give them everything that we have, that s the quickest way to clear our name. now there is a real debate among lawyers whether this is a smart move. one of the blowbacks of it is it allows for embarrassing things to end up in mueller s hands. maybe it may not show illegality but shows things that were going on in the white house that may not reflect well on the president. michael, you report that the president personally directed his counsel, his white house counsel don mcgahn to go to the justice department to talk attorney general jeff sessions out of recusing himself. i don t know enough about how these things work in terms of how recusals are decided and how it works between the white house counsel and the office of the attorney general. how unusual is that sort of entreaty from the white house counsel? i think that the trump presidency is testing some things that we nev
many of them. the legislators. do you have a theory? why did this happen? the leading theory. you re incumbent party and big on things controversial you ll have blowbacks. the party got away from developing a national brand. they became obama party not national party. a lot are popular, but they don t have a national message or national operation to recruit candidates and to put the message forward? elise. i think it s more about the economic numbers in the first presentation how that didn t necessarily correlate with change in people s lives, voters lives they felt was real and impactful. i think the gain in how much people are earning on average, i think it s been pretty stagnant since 2001. so that s what people really feel. are they making more money, living a better life. that s what hit voters this year, they were hearing about