brian: attention the other 49 states we need some road spackle, please. something. steve: asphalt. ainsley: just pay more taxes. brian: i wish we could pay more. steve: that s the irony because the taxes are so high and the infrastructure is terrible. brian: i was the one who said let s not talk about de blasio. i just can t believe he is running. [laughter] steve: is he not leading yesterday. 7:11 in new york city. jillian joins us up there. jillian: hello. [cheers and applause] jillian: not very nice, brian. let s talk about this for a second. the uss abraham lincoln is in position near iran two weeks early. the aircraft carrier is holding hundreds of missiles ready to launch if u.s. forces are attacked. congressional leaders received a classified briefing on iran after complaints of being kept out of the loop. the full house and senate will be briefed next week. president trump says he hopes to avoid war. the trump administration slamming the brakes on california s high speed
hands of working people. as of this morning, the democratic presidential field somehow got yet another contestant. the citizens of new york city officially got a part-time mayor. you will see lots of insults directioned at mayor deblasio who trafficked that and feel abandoned or angry for one reason or another. but i think his entrance raises an interesting question which is how much does executive experience matter? right now many polls have pete buttigeig in third or fourth place as the two-term mayor of a mid-sized city. he won with 8500 votes which is a pretty big apartment complex. he has run the largest city in the country in what is one of the most difficult jobs in politics. it will be interesting to watch it play out over the primaries about experience, good and bad. back when barack obama ran for president, people thought he
lacked executive experience, which he did. it was a received wisdom that governors were the best to run for president and become presidents, thanks to jimmy carter and ronald reagan and bill clinton and bush 43. there are a bunch of governors polling at like 2% less even though like deblasio, they had to deal with the inevitable difficulties and compromises and conflict of doing so. the rise of donald trump from failed business man to creepy host to experience theorists to twitter beef starter had the effect of making it seem like well, maybe anyone can be president. it s a question worth considering for voters. whether extended experience does matter in preparing someone for the hardest job in the world. i m alex trebek here to tell you
about experience, good and bad. back when barack obama ran for president, people thought he lacked executive experience, which he did. it was a received wisdom that governors were the best to run for president and become presidents, thanks to jimmy carter and ronald reagan and bill clinton and bush 43. there are a bunch of governors polling at like 2% less even though like deblasio, they had to deal with the inevitable difficulties and compromises and conflict of doing so. the rise of donald trump from failed business man to creepy host to experience theorists to twitter beef starter had the effect of making it seem like well, maybe anyone can be president. it s a question worth considering for voters. whether extended experience does matter in preparing someone for the hardest job in the world. time for medicare, huh.