we are back with katrina vanden heuvel, anthony scaramucci and james fallows. anthony, let s pause for a minute. conventional wisdom is right, the democrats take the house, they don t take the senate. how does trump react in a situation like this? the strategy you describe, the base-only strategy, might work well. it might even bring turnout up, but for governing, it s a harder strategy. a harder strategy, so he ll take two choices. he ll either build a bridge to the democrats, try to cut something on immigration and infrastructure. or build a wedge with the democrats and get leaned in there, will it be more political disfunction going into the 2020 re-election campaign. i think his instincts would be to build a bridge to them. because at the end of the day, the president s always said this on the campaign trail and in private. that there are deals to get done. if he could cut a deal on immigration he s going to finish the trade deal with china. i predict that happens by the end of
associated with this administration, long before there was a letter. do you buy that, that this letter is not about exposing these concerns that the author talked about and the disfunction? it s about instead creating chaos in the west wing. no, i think the essay is very clear. it s someone from a senior administration official inside the trump white house who is in a lot of ways validating a lot of the reporting that the times, cnn, the washington post has done over the past year enough. someone saying they re supportive and sympathetic to traditional republican policy agenda, to some of the aims the administration has spursued and has made achievements on but who is really underscoring the fact that all of this is coming about in spite of sort of the daily paroxysms and chaos that president trump from when he starts going on twitter, stomping on the message that the white house would like to focus on that day, from his rallies when he could be talking about
reading bob woodward s book. this book offers a remarkable look at the chaos and the disfunction that is characterized the trump white house since day one. its now the second book where you have aides to this president liken his understanding of events to that of a child. we ve already seen just over the last year and a half that the president doesn t really have a grasp on poll by but we now know some of the fires that those around him have put out. you mentioned the abrupt withdraw from the south korea free trade agreement. there s also the president questioning why the u.s. has a military presence over the korean peninsula suggesting that the united states should go into syria and take out bashar al assad. there s very serious allegations that have been made in this book and it really lays bear the ways in which the president is seen by his own advisers as a threat to national security, the question now, of course, is going to be whether they re going to be any departures or ramif
thing that in a lot of ways this selection process is the least trumpian thing going on in this administration. despite all the disfunction of this administration, he s out, sowed this to people president kennedy trusts. all of it play add role, but looking at the list that the trump people have put out. you know, justice kennedy was able to look down there and go, look, not a judge generjeanine random guy out there but somebody i think has the judicial temperament and knowledge to take my place and i think that was the key element. charlie, thank you. felipe, thank you as well. enjoy the weekend, gentlemen. thank you. the shooting here in annapolis marks the 154th mass shooting in america so far this year. i ll talk to the parent of a marjory stoneman douglas high school student running for the school board because of the
and said representative perry do your people support this, what would you like. nobody asked that of me. wow. we came to participate, not to take orders. you know, i m hearing a drum beat this representative diane black of tennessee was on with me this week as well, she felt like you described them always the four corners, she said four people in the room deciding and no one came to her. look at her. ways, means, house budget. committee chairman, exactly, running for governor, been here for a while, has clue about what is going. why is this happening? one of the reasons this is happening once again, the senate, look, we have our disfunction the house too. but the senate refuses to give up the 60 vote requirement on critical legislation like the spending package. as long as that happens then it becomes a negotiation with this cudgeol of the shut tooun, that forces everyone into a corner and forces to us ak z the bad