mole hill. this seems to be a thing we should continue to try to get the right answer to because it s serious. david, what s your impression of this? this is fascinating. this is one of the few times where spicer has really ob view skated in this way. we can all kind of run around like hamsters trying to parse every word and every punctuation mark. either the president or the white house decided they want to make everybody lock over their shoulder on this and make everybody who had a krgs with the president in the white house look over their shoulder and wonder whether or not they were recorded. don t forget it s perfectly legal for the president to tape conversations in the white house without getting their consent. if the tapes exist, they don t belong to the president. since nixon, they belong to the government. e eventually, people have a right to hear what s on them. it s not something that it trump
of this. the wrong person for the american people? he didn t have the leadership skills necessary to lead this institution. as he said in the statement at the time, the fbi is the crown jewel of law enforcement. they deserve a leader that can lead the institution. thank you very much. i ll see you tomorrow. we are there wrapping up the briefing. i want to bring some of my panel in. david druker joining us from new york orphan this. a number of things that stood out to me. one being this issue of the trump tapes. it was interesting that the president secretary, again, said that there s not going to be anything further to say. i want to go ahead and bring dana bash in on this question. he said this again. the same thing. there s nothing further to say. it s odd in that it s a white house that doesn t have a problem saying that s not true.
metric. i don t think you could take 100 days and sum it up in one metric. david, thanks so much for the bottom line. great to have you here. the good stuff is next. aleve with direct therapy
if you look at the crunching of the numbers we just put up, chris, they say if you lower from 35% to 15%, you lose revenue in just the first decade. so the deficit goes up. you heard the treasury secretary yesterday essentially say it is going to pay for itself because the economy is going to do better, economic growth. that s going to be the argument because, to david s point, that s the only argument they could make at this point. money has to go from somewhere or come from somewhere. how does it go over? golly. it s a real battle because it is between tax cuts which is something dave notes republicans are in favor of, but also this promise of economic growth but not a certainty, which means they could be adding to the deficit, which again, like is like the border wall, this is a
any recent president at the 100-day mark. david druker and national political reporter maeve reston and harry bacon. great to have all of you here. david, what do these poll numbers that we just see there mean for him trying to get stuff accomplished this week? well, it means that he still has an opportunity to try and get things done, because he hasn t lost his base, and he hasn t lost his party in congress but i think as we look at these poll numbers it s important to understand where different groups of americans are on the president. i think that for so many americans that put their trust and faith in him and voted for him, you find even though a lot of what he s done so far has been symbolic and executive oriented, it means so much to them. we just heard from them. we did. it means he s trying. he hasn t given up. and he hasn t given up on them and he hasn t forgotten them. we ll see that so much with his 100-day rally in harrisburg,