trip and the historic nature and super frajistic expy al doeshious of the trip, you could almost see trump sitting there writing it with him. he was certainly wanting to stroke donald trump s ego. he s wanted to do that from way back. think about his first press briefing was all about the crowd size. that s where he lowered the credibility bar and since then hasn t raised the credibility at all. during the trip itself, one interesting element from those of us who were on air force one or in the briefing rooms because we were in the fool a lot was to the extent which you saw rex tiller on, h.r. mcmaster, gary cohn, very senior officials who have policy portfolios not comes portfolios not just participating in the briefings but running them. off and on the record sometimes on background with a combination of other top officials. part of that it seemed to many of us there was a test to find out whether that would drives the coverage in a more positive
people rose to not a summer fling. the second thing is that his economic success as a capitalist is what it initially gets him over the credibility bar for people not the immigration rhetoric, not the even the establishment rhetoric but a business person who built stuff and they know. that the third thing is one of us thing is very powerful and they all know he s really different from them in that he s a billionaire and lives in a skyscraper and has a private jet. the way they define one of us is he s not one of them. one of them is a politician. politicians, washington people bad. he doesn t talk like them he talks like us. if he s pissed off, it doesn t take you 30 minutes to figure out he s pissed off, it takes him three seconds. he says what he thinks. and that s why we were talking about this mika that a lot of
the prime minister of great britain and president of france have spoken to their people about this. the white house, you save the president for when you re trying to get to the fin are line. so they re waiting to sort this out. the president has to make his case to the american people. but to the point about this intelligence assessment, we were told by sources early this morning it would be out today. there is a bit of a tug of war inside the administration about how much to put out. part of this is the hangover of the legacy of the iraq war. they understand some american people will be skeptical, some people in the president s own party, anti-war forces will be skeptical and people around the world. you re already hearing iran, the syrian government saying you can t believe the united states, we ve been down this road before. they have a credibility bar to pass. and senator barack obama was critical of the bush administration saying if you re going to do this, you have to make a bett
andrew cuomo is not the perfect profile to run an election like this. he s a no-name in the state. he is viewed as an insider. and people don t take carl paladino seriously. he s not seen as an alternative. you always have toe have someone who meets a minimal credibility bar even if people decided they don t want the one guy. that s not the case here. it s the seem dynamic in nevada. does sharron angle meet the credibility bar? people want to fire harry reid, the senate majority leader. but do they trust sharron angle enough? that s what the last 15 days of this campaign is about? and if the new york race is not close, the west virginia race certainly is. this could decide the election. a very important race, andrea. joe mansion is a popular democratic governor. he s dipped. he s back on on the up swing. if democrats win this race, and