calls you re not supposed to make and then again you lie about it to officials in the white house. you don t survive that. joe, you were pretty brisk on twitter yesterday. brisk and declarative. i was. declarative. unambiguous, unequivocal. this is the new story of politics where republicans and democrats are in a bad position. democrats, because they lost. republicans, because they are caught in the middle between reality and what trump campaigned on. these people don t want to lose their health. harold, this is not going to go away. this is so much like 2009. you could not draw a closer parallel. again, i say it time and time again. if donald trump gets rid of obamacare without an adequate
declarative and not defensive. but the facts still remain in that benghazi hearing or related hearings and frankly the server issue and the possible legal issues there could come back strongly, but at least in the last 48 hours, she showed some capabilities and some passion that she hadn t previously flashed in the campaign. e.j. dionne, bernie sanders came to boston over the weekend and outdid barack obama s first presidential campaign, drawing 20,000 people. barack obama did 10,000 at a comparable event his time around. the sanders huge crowd phenomenon continues. there is a big base of support in the democratic party for the kinds of things bernie sanders says, and i think he ll continue to get good crowds, but what was interesting about those poll and the best news for clinton is there was no change. she had been on a steady slide, and she seems to have plateaued
change quite a bit. you know, the fact doesn t change that he and hillary clinton ran against each other in 2008. she didn t go easy on him the same way she didn t go easy on barack obama. it was a different factor because he never made it into the major levels in the polls. tim pawlenty, it certainly seems hillary clinton found her voice in how to fight publicly with the benghazi committee. everything we just heard her say in that very forceful statement she could have said a couple of months ago, but it seems like kevin mccarthy gave her the opening, gave her the energy with his statement interpreted as the benghazi committee was just there to knock her poll numbers down. that seems to have given her the platform she needs to fight the way she wants to on this one. well, if she s going to be president of the united states she needed to find another gear and maybe one or two after that. that performance on saturday night live, by the way, humanized her and she did a nice job wit
competition. do you think the system of corporate ceos, there s no confidence these guys can get it done. very little respect for them on either side, and that the guys like you go about or try to go about doing your business and squeezing out as much as you can from every moral earnings some make the best of it because you have very little faith that washington is going to address any of your worries. well, i like to take your question and just make it a declarative. i have very little confidence they can get things done. don t give money to them. and basically i do my best to keep the company running. that s my moral obligation and my job. and i kind of have faith, if you remember back to the first george bush, he said he wouldn t raise taxes, and then he tried to raise taxes and got treason out of office thrown out of office of one term. there s some limit that the american people won t tolerate, and after a while, they ll keep
president s views were. he knew what his views were. he was asked a direct question and he gave a direct answer. i think in the process of giving that answer, he went further than he intended to. i certainly don t think it was a plant in that respect or something he intended to do. i think with cory booker, i think booker, yes, he supportive of the president. but i think that he is also positioning himself as a more centrist, pragmatic leader and wants to take on some of the excesses in this advertising. he said exactly what he meant. i think what s odd and i think joe made this point over the course of the week. what is always i think more hurtful to these figures is if they really try to walk this stuff back as if they were in some sort of daze when they originally said it. cory booker was passionate. he was very clear. declarative. he knew what he believed on that. gene, i m going to read from your piece in the washington post, why bain questions matter. you say this. listen t