gives him as much wiggle room as possible because at the end of the day he is a deals guy and everything is sort of a transaction. i think they will probably get there because they have made the c calculus that you need to do something. to not do something would be worse for republicans. yes it is a political calculation because they have campaigned on repealing obamacare cycle after cycle. the other thing the president campaigned on was saving medicaid and medicare. he said it over and over. listen to this and we will talk about where he is today. save medicare, medicaid and social security without cuts. i m not going to cut medicare or medicaid. end up with great health care for a fraction of the price. this does cut it? you can have everything for nothing and it is all going to be terrific. i think the president is square
can come down on both sides, did james comey make mistakes. there can be a good argument for he is a moral, upright man. i believe his moral compass points toward the north star. as he explained on may 3, in the last appearance before congress, i believe he explained the c calculus he went through. he struggled with it. all eyes are on comey on thursday. he is not going to help the president. that s the bottom line here. the question is, how much damage is he going to do? to take a step back. think how powerful james comey has become. he arguably more famous than the president. not since j. edgar hoover. we have to take a break. all eyes on comey on thursday. tomorrow senators will question
by the way, this is a message to russia too, let the french pick their president. quit trying to do your fake news stuff. quit trying to steal information and embarrass people. but french citizens need to know and many are probably watching, what is happening and what s going on and push back against russian interference in your domestic politics. do you believe, congressman, that trump administration will hold firm on sanctions against russia until russia returns control of crimea to ukraine as secretary tillerson said? i certainly hope so. we never recognized the russian occupation through the whole war. i think we will see that here. despite of what president trump said earlier, the administration and current words have been hawkish on russia. whatever is changing that c calculus, russians and vladimir putin, sanctions as far as we are kaernconcerned will be in p.
his best option, shining a big spotlight on how embarrassing this should be for russia in the eyes. world while hosting these amazing olympics and at the same time is russia itself is spoerting a torturer and someone engaged in horrific treatment of his own people. and so what obama is doing is trying to effect assad s c calculus and trying to use that as opposed to a military prod, using the prod of media during a time when russia is trying to show what a great power and what a good place for investment it is while its supporting one of the cruelist regimes in the world. the president is using the resources at hand quite well. steve, what are the other options that the president alluded to there? he said that they are exploring other options. what else can be considered at this point? well, i think he did say he
government open over the next couple of months. this is an issue that will have to be at least entertained by republican leadership. at this point, wolf, they aren t tipping their hand on the next step, but i ve talked to several aides who made clear this absolutely complicates the c calculus going forward. was this move by the president today, phil, done in concerts with republicans up on capitol hill? did they know this was coming? they had no idea. several sources tell me they were not informed ahead of time. some of the leader learned about this via news reports. you think about the legislative agenda. the fact that they weren t given a heads up certainly doesn t make everybody happy up here. look, you have to i think kind of view this, as i ve been talking to aides and advisers throughout the course of this day, through the lens of the president himself. over the course of the last couple months, i m told in several meetings he has looked at these payments to insurers as a bar