call 811. keep yourself safe. welcome back to hardball president trump is getting serious criticism now from some key voices on the right. on the need to come clean, finally. he hasn t done it at all, on his dealings with russia. in an op-ed today titled trumps and the truth, the best defense is radical transparency. don t you guys get it? special counsel robert mueller and the house and senate intelligence committees are investigating the russian story. everything that is potentially damaging to the trumps will come out one way or another. everything denouncing leaks as fake news won t wash as a counter strategy beyond the president s base as mr. trump s latest 36% approval rating shows. let s bring in our round table.
them, these nine that will come up for a confirmation hearing the during the rest of the week, it appears democrats won t block them and republicans will get them moved in? yeah, that s the safe bet. the democrats will rail at the nominees, particularly education, betsy devos. obviously she will get some tough questions from bernie sanders. there will be fireworks but we ll see confirmation. chuck schumer has been vocal about his concerns. can you give us any specifics that you said might be coming from him regarding first, senator sessions? yeah, again, it goes back to the civil rights record. i m also hearing a small argument among democrats for a counter strategy.
is everyone on board with this? well, if you read my story, there are two unnamed advisers describing bannon s interactions or describing his instructions in private meetings. you can take that as you would like to. certainly if you look at trump s inner circle of bannon, dave bosse, kellyanne conway and reince priebus, they all seem to be pretty much on board with this. i would say that chris christie seems to have drifted out of the inner orbit a little bit. there doesn t seem to be a lot of conflict within trump s inner circle or within his bunker, maybe a better term for it, that this is the way to close out the campaign. this is the way to go after hillary clinton. they think this will depress enthusiasm among millenial women who clinton is counting on to win. so this apparently is trump s counter strategy to all these new accusations. joshua green, great story last night. i encourage everyone to read it. thanks for being with us. appreciate it. it lays out that things could
so whenever you see that kind of change in legal team you can expect something different and new to come out of that. and i think it s important to note that although there have been more than 40, some etch say 50 women that have accused cosby of some kind of rape or sexual assault, they re only seven lawsuits that were filed in the massachusetts area and there are two that are pending in los angeles. so although there are four dozen or so women that have accused him, there are only nine pending lawsuits. so the counter suits that were filed were against those seven lawsuits that are in massachusetts and the spin is they sued cosby for defamation and now he s suing them for defamation saying you have maligned my character by falsely accusing me of raping you. and i want damages. so it s a counter strategy that s often used in the law. you sue me. well, wait a minute, i m going to turn around and sue you. i think he s trying to send a very strong message. one, to those women who have su
the failed pr eed policies that work and the bush days with a tanked economy. so this is constantly reminding us to move for ward and we can ill afterford to move back to the policies of the past. and give the republicans a voice here by showing the hype and blame which is the counter and saying hope and change, no, it is hype and blame. take a look at what this counter strategy is. the real question is, will this country be better off four years from now? if you have health care, the only thing that will change under my plan is that we will lower your premiums. as presidentially go through the federal budget line by line and ending programs that we don t need. if you don t have a record to run on,? hype and blame and 2012.