And the democrats were bugged. Everybody knows the general rule if your party holds the white house, you usually lose seats in the midterm election. When the democrats lost 13 seats, in 2014, they were kind of bummed. And president obama took some of that himself. Shortly after the election in 2014. You might remember, president obama had this really interesting interview with george stephanopoulos. And it was sort of a standard president ial interview. It was a little chattier than most. He was a little pistttle wistfu. Especially about what the American People might want from him in the future. I think the American People, theyre going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesnt have as much mileage as me. Theyre probably not going to be looking to me to campaign too much. One of the things about our society, which is great, is that we dont have real long memories. And if we get impatient for the next thing. It worked for you before. It worked for
Voters. Insurance doesnt cover this type of thing. Brayings for parts of the worse in the midwest. A major flood threat that looms. And a shark attack closes a beach where a tourist died. It is all happening now. We begin with a fox news alert. The first show down between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. I am jenna lee. Hello, everyone. Im eric shaun in for jon scott. The air is electric and full of excite nment Hofstra University where the president ial nominees will take the stage behind the podiums under eight hours from now. There is a lot on the line. After months from taking jabs, they will go headtohead in front of an audience of 100 million americans or more. A brand new mammoth showing Hillary Clinton with a four point lead above donald trump. 46 42 percent. Headtohead. 49 percent to mr. Trumps 46. And that is within the margin of error. The new polls mean . Patrick murray director of the Monmouth University poll. Patrick, the average of the polls, they have mrs. Clinton up t
Interesting interview with George Stephanopoulos from abc news. And it was sort of a standard interview but chattier than most. He little humble especially about what he thought the American People might want from him in the future. You know, i think the American People, you know, theyre going to want that new car smell. You know, they want they want to drive something off the lot that doesnt have as much mileage as me. You know, theyre probably not going to be looking at me to campaign too much. One of the things about our society which is great is we dont have real long memories. We get impatient for the next thing its worked for you before. Its worked for me before. You know, i think at the end of two years, if they want me to do some selective things, ill be happy to do them. I suspect that folks will be ready to see me go off to the next thing. President obama speaking two years ago saying he was under no illusions about his own popularity. Thinking ahead to the 2016 campaign sayi
Everyone is connected. I love you. And i so respect you even mor that you shared all of this with everyone else. And i encourage everyone watching to please read her opinion peace. We are great fwateful to your h and 6th deployment and everyone serving this great country. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We continue on watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. President is en route to texas. But before he left the stopped the white house and wide ranging what turned into the News Conference with media making all kind of headlines. Biggest perhaps was his claim of great unity within the Republican Party, a party that is really now in civil war with president in there as well. Its a division that was put on unprecedented display after two republican senators condemned his leadership and called for others to rise in protest as well. But the president just dismissed the actions of arizona flake and senator bob corker saying he thinks theyll vote for his tax plan. Here is the president moments ago.
White house he was talking to reporters about texas, interactions with soldiers widow, and two republican senators who excore rated his leadership. You saw right here live during the show arizona senator flake making his comments from the floor. After corker criticized the president. But as president s Party Division seems deep as other, but the silence from others is speaking volu speaking volumes. And President Trump not talking about civil war, labeling it reelection. Let me read you a tweet. They had zero chance of being reelected. And then moments ago he added this. I dont think so. I think its fine the way it is. We have great unity in the Republican Party. [ inaudible question ] thats okay. If you look yesterday at what happened at the meeting we had i guess virtually every senator, including john mccain, we had a great conversation yesterday, about the military. I think we had a tremendous, i called it a love fess, it was almost a love fest, maybe it was, but Standing Ovations.