president believes democrats running the house for the next two years will provide him with foils that he can position himself against heading into 2020. this is, of course, how it s worked for a few recent predecessors, bill clinton playing off newt gingrich in the republican congress to bounce back from the midterm drumming of 94 and win reelection in 96, and barack obama doing the same with the tea party congress after 2010 to win in 2012. whether trump can replicate with nancy pelosi and the democratic congress, we will soon find out. it is clear, by now, that to win reelection trump will need some kind of a foil. and this is because of the choices he has made since winning two years ago, past presidents have taken steps to try to expand their appeal and to enlarge their coalitions once elected, but not trump. he seems more interested in locking in the lines of division that existed in 2016 in trying to ride the same coalition to victory in 2020. for two years now his political s
let s face it, i mean, it s more divided and retohetorically mor heated than ever. what is your suggestion? what i was referring to is comedy, sports, the political rhetoric will probably remain divisive, and it will remain mean as ever. i will try to be part of the solution there and not part of the problem and by that i mean don t attack somebody s core or intent if you disagree with them, and especially the conservative side, every time we have a policy disagreement, the left attacks who we are as a people, and on the comedy side, my message to hollywood and sports is allow people to take a break from politics, and don t politicize your comedy in a way that is mean spirited, and that s what happened this weekend and it happens more than that and the american people would like to take a break.
manafort story really moves the meter in any one direction, especially when they lost so much credibility of the last two years. but what does touch the heart, what does touch people s emotions is what happened to mollie tibbetts because they can relate to her and she was murdered! all the polls are showing that the number one issue is immigration. people say don t politicize it but how do we talk about in the same time not be criticized for being, you know, just throwing politics out? i find it interesting, congressman, that you ve got a lot of democrats saying, we shouldn t be politicizing the mollie tibbetts murder but they are the ones that absolutely overwhelmingly politicize parkland school shooting and every shooting that happens. it s a natural emotional reaction but what we have to do is examine policies to determine, can we fix that, can we do better? there is not a lot of sympathy
out, i personally, i don t believe that the cohen and manafort story really moves the meter in any one direction, especially when they lost so much credibility of the last two years. but what does touch the heart, what does touch people s emotions is what happened to mollie tibbetts because they can relate to her and she was murdered! all the polls are showing that the number one issue is inflation. people say don t politicize it but how do we talk about in the same time not be criticized for being, you know, just throwing politics out. i find it interesting, congressman, that you ve got a lot of democrats saying, we shouldn t be politicizing the mollie tibbetts murder but they are the ones that absolutely overwhelmingly politicize parkland school shooting and every shooting that happens. it s a natural emotional reaction but what we have to do is examine policies to determine, can we fix that, can we do better?
way, if you re in the v.a. system, like my brother-in-law, 101st combat air force veteran, they love it. it is great medical care. but the giant, bloated, needs to be modernized. you have to outsource and let veterans, particularly in rural areas, go see the civilian health care providers. he s got his work cut out for him. i hope they get him a good chief of staff and competent people. don t politicize the agency. let s talk about that. sort of what you eluded to. that s, i think, going to be what we re going to hear a lot about. this is a position that congress is going to look at. at the heart of the questioning, i think, will be that fight over whether to privatize the department. the president has said there should be at least some more privatization. let me play for you what richard blumenthal had to say about this this morning on msnbc. it s a little bit like asking someone who has never climbed a mountain to begin with mt.