pretty good. so he wants to continue that message that he can continue economic prosperity. of course, there was also some talk of immigration mixed in. because if you look at how 2018 pulled out, those are still the energizing issues for his base and those are the kinds of people that he needs to keep coming to these rallies and hopefully bringing their friends. the thing that s striking about how he talks about the 2020 race and specifically the other democrats is, to me, joe biden is the ultimate foil for him, because it allows trump to continue railing against the obama years, this time with joe biden as the obvious foil. so it s getting kind of predictable, the way he talks about biden, calling him sleepy joe. to me, if it s predictable now, i wonder what it s going to look like when he ratchets it up, when we actually hit 2020. but right now, it seems like it s predictable trump commentary on the 20 field, plus red meat for the base. here s a thing, though. from a strategic sta
the president to say, here s a young man and do something outside the bright lights of the media to have a conversation and that dialogue is a helpful thing and should be encouraged. a fascinating conversation. i encourage you to check out the rest of it on the interwebs. my conversation with nba commissioner, adam silver. switching gears now. we are continuing our kids under pressure series today with a look at perfectionism. nbc news and msnbc are collaborating with usa today this week to highlight the issue surrounding children and mental health. today, we re focusing on negative gender stereotypes affecting young girls. experts say millennials, especially young girls, have an expectation to be perfect. and in this turn pushes them to avoid risk and failure. but they say if girls took more chances, they d be more comfortable with imperfections and change. i m joined now by founder and ceo of girls who code, rash ma,
preserve people who have been here for decades in a temporary status. that s an important piece of legislation, one of the first things we did was pass hr-1, the dramatic reform measure. we passed the equality act last week. so we re moving ahead with our proactive agenda. we passed a number of bills last week to make pharmaceuticals more affordable for the american people and we ve got other things ready to move forward to make health care less expensive for all americans. so we re moving on all of that, while also doing the oversight that we need to do on the president s activities. congressmwoman loftgren, thanks for your time. thanks very much. escalating tensions. administration officials are on capitol hill right now briefing lawmakers on iran. can the white house make its case for ratcheting up tensions in that region? also, president trump taking
economics is in the mid-50s, you have to say it s really just because of the president s conduct and this sort of stuff doesn t help. who would you view, among the 20 or so democratic candidates right now who have declared, who would you view as the most significant threat to this current sitting president? i mean, there s a lot of conjecture right, a because it s very early and polls are beginning to become more problem it. he can t afford to lose those donald trump voters. among them, joe biden, amy klobuchar, and pete buttigieg, people who strike tonal moderation pop don t necessarily lose the appeal of their base voters, but also can appeal to the industrial midwest obama/trump voters. but what about their the aforementioneds inability to appeal to minority voters, whether it s klobuchar or buttigieg, who in south carolina right now is polling at
committees that are in many ways, like judiciary here, able to move the ball forward, are not yet there. but you do have more rank and file members who are saying they believe that with the white house rebuffing them on different kinds of investigations and ignoring subpoenas and doing other things that democrats on capitol hill believe are obstructing their ability to do their own oversight and their constitutional duties as elected members of congress, that s where the, kind of the sort of, if you look at the whole array of things, you ve got a lot of people feeling the same way about impeachable offenses, different opinions when it comes to what steps to take. now, you played jerrold nadler, the committee chairman who is a democrat from this hearing. don mcgahn is the former white house counsel who was told by the president, instructed through his lawyer not to appear. the republican ranking member of this committee, doug collins, had a very different take on today s proceedings.