and do it. about this early on in the investigation, they would have had the capacity and resources to move forward. obviously manafort is a tempting target for the government. he s someone i suspect they would like to have flip and cooperate because he can narrate much of what went on during the time he was the head of the campaign and during the time where the campaign plank about russia changed. it was about a 72-hour period over the last week where it looked like where manafort decided to drop the civil suit against mueller and suddenly it s obviously they had a plan b here to try to make rick gates the bad guy. it almost looked like they were trying to curry favor with the special counsel s office. do you think it s possible this trial doesn t go to its conclusion? that it gets stopped because they cut a deal? that s always a possibility. some defendants don t plead
not repealing it. all we have to do is look to the precedent set for 2017 going in the midterms. dana: josh crauttenar hung without a republican and the democrat vying for congressional seat. rewrote it s a remarkial shift for republicans running against the obamacare as a key campaign plank for the last four elections. without democrats in power and after a failed attempt to repeal obama signature accomplishments, the republicans now bear the brunt of the public s fickle mood to the healthcare system. what do you hear out there, outside the beltway? i think for the most part this upcoming election is referendum on trump. if the economy does well and the foreign policy stays quiet, they have a decent chance to hold the house. but i think this will be a much bigger issue in 2020 than in 2018 because the republicans when they pass the tax bill and they remove the
george w. bush? he was a president and a republican and he was in agreement with what democrats are asking for now. the problem here is are we going to hold hostage dollars or dreamers? dreamers are being held hostage regarding a wall and someone to blame democrats for saying look, no more dollars when we want to deal with human beings first and foremost. neither side wants to shut down and i certainly hope it doesn t come to that but i don t think there s going to be a wall, we don t have the money and you can t use these people as a bargaining chip to get that. jon: the president who won the election could not have been more plain with his campaign plank that he wanted to build that wall and it got them elected. why should he not pursue it? first of all, he said mexico was going to pay for it so there would be a broken campaign promise. politicians breaking campaign promises, in addition to that we don t have the money to pay for
isis are still on the offensive and parts of this neighboring country. heather: lived for us from antakya, turkey, thank you. jon: america first was one of the slogans that propelled president trump to presidency. then in his third month, he ordered a missile strike on syria. how does that fit with the president s broader foreign policy? i am joined by patrick, former speechwriter for secretary of defense ash carter and for secretary of state john kerry. is there a conflict inherently between launching a missile strike on syria after you have campaigned on in america first campaign plank? you know what they say. everyone has a strategy until they get hit in the mouth, and i think this attack on children in syria, this chemical attack some of those images of the victims and their family maimed by this attack, that hit all of our hearts in the president s heart. it has changed his mind about
post karen recently noted, there has only been one presidential election without a bush or a clinton since 1976. that s 38 years. the prediction may be dull but on the bush side of the ledger things could actually get interesting for jeb s state of florida, which is one of 22 red states still refusing to expand medicaid under the affordable care act. but could that change in 2015? as the gop dominated legislature might want to cut down the sunshine state s 700,000 uninsured to pad jeb s home state advantage. florida has already lost hundreds of millions of dollars in declining by declining obamacare. florida hospitals stand to lose more than $2 billion in federal funding for potential new benefits. that could give hillary, formally of hillary occasion a campaign plank in the clinton-friendly state. states like indiana, michigan and iowa are expanding medicaid using their own federally-approved versions of