it this middle group. some are conflicted but still with him because of the policies, and some are conflicted and they re much less with him because of the conduct. they haven t broken with him yet. most of them don t say, i m not going to vote for him. i don t know where they re going to be in 2020. as i said, it s very difficult to know exactly how they ll turnout in 2018. dan balls, thank you so much. thank you. appreciate it. very much enjoyed, commend the report to all of you as well in the washington post. shawna thomas, eli stoke always, michael steele, great to have you. kasie d.c. is back right after this.
was just saying on friday really was on defense, she got a number of questions about whether americans can believe what she is saying given that it didn t square with what we now know in terms of the president paying back that $130,000 payment. she continued to insist she s giving the best information that she has at that time. and i spoke with rudy giuliani who said look, i apologize, i did leave the entire press shop in the dark. but he says, bottom line, he s not the white house counsel, so it s not his job to brief the white house team on his next steps. but there s no doubt that it certainly i think left a lot of people stunned here, and struggling to try to determine how they should respond, andrea. ashley, just briefly, the washington post i believe counted up 3,000 lies that the president has told. you had dan balls, who doesn t use the l world easily with his column last week, saying that how do people respond to
welcome back. panelists here, robert costa, danielle pletka, kimberly atkins and jon meacham. let me start with your colleague, robert, dan balls and what he wrote friday morning. the larger reaction to everything we have learned. does it bother anyone that president trump has been caught lying, does it bother anyone that the president has been shown to be a liar? that s not somebody who throws the l word around. one of the best. he brings up an important question. for republicans i m covering, they do not seem to be breaking with president trump. they have bought the ticket. they re taking the ride. they re sticking with president trump. for those suburban voters who watch this with the misstatements, lies, you do wonder, do the voters who may have went from the middle to president trump in 2016, do they flip back this year? danielle, the wall street journal editorial page. a dispute over speaking with
then you can get comfortable using preparation h. for any sort of discomfort in yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it. welcome back. let me bring in the panel. dan balls, stephanie cutter, and hugh hewitt. welcome all. momentum democrats already had. something about mick mulvaney message, saying what he said, having that come out, and you see this what sort of super charged 06, 94 and 74 was when a clean up congress suddenly became part of conversation. mulvaney may have just handed the democrats something. he may have. i mean he certainly did everything he could to hand it to them. i don t know the degree to which that will be the issue or
a new column in the west suggests it s time to buckle up, the stage is being set for a more tumultuous white house. writer dan balls says we are seeing the re-emergence of the prepresidential trump who plays by his own rules and tries to rewrite the old ones he doesn t like. it comes after a wild week that included the call to vladimir putin, trump s attorney john dowd s resignation, wall street s drop in the light of the tariffs, mcmasters replacement with john bolton and the leadup to the spending bill signing. let s bringing in former governor of vermont, howard dean, former dnc chairman and republican strategist susan del%io. good day to both of you. susan, to you first here. do you agree that s what we re