no, this is the thing. i really don t. so if all that we are saying is true, it seems that it would make no political sense for president trump to be pursuing this right now. you be it seems to me to be the case what he is doing is he is really speaking to that cultural anxiety at the heart of his base, his immigration policy isn t really about law and order. it isn t about undocumented workers. it s really about that cultural anxiety that is at the heart of those core trump supporters that believe america is changing that america doesn t look like it is supposed to look. daca is a part of this. the wall won t be built. he can at least stay. he told the honduran kids, they re not coming. we will send them back. it seems to me this is a part of this other agenda, it s at the heart hoff how we understand the political actions of the base at the heart of trump. but there is another reason why this timing is coming now, right? it s that there are these republican attorneys, general, wh
reaction, president trump as katherine is saying, he is under pressure from republicans not to end the daca program. there is what ryan had to say. there s a lot in the news right now that the president might be looking at pulling back daca. the dreamers act. yeah, i actually don t think he should do that. and i believe that is something that congress has to fix. and arizona senator jeff flake, he has been a trump critic of late. he tweeted, congress needs to take immediate action to protect daca kids, orrin hatch, care of the powerful finance committee said i ve urged the president to the to rescind daca, an action that would further complicate a system in serious need of a legislative solution. what paul ryan is saying he wants congress to address this the position is barack obama did this, no president should do that. he should undue that and you should immediately pass in this congress.
many is he speaking for? i don t know what the message is other than he s played to the worst base instincts to a portion of the republican party that shouldn t be there. if he goes in the administration with his 32 pieces of flair, that s an embarrassment. he s been an embarrassment as a sheriff. he s disgraced anybody who wears a uniform. look what it says about donald trump in the past week about what he views law enforcement as. he celebrates arpaio and clarke as somehow heroes of law enforcement. they are the exact opposite of what we want law enforcement officers to be. they don t follow the rules. they have no problem ignoring federal court orders. they have no problem mistreating people in inhumane circumstances. but, hey. donald trump says they re great for keeping us safe. i think politically, what evan s describing roughly, it reads to a certain part of the electorate as a guy who s willing to do the tough things you need to do to maintain order. it s the old law and ord
think they want to be on your show, there will be people saying this can t deep e keep going this way and also do you understand that the speaker of the house, paul rienyan, who i d has been too much of a facilitator, he grumbles but backs him up. he now faces probably his most serious election challenge of his career and many other republicans feel that as well. so when they get together, suddenly i think this august break shifts them towards a lot more 2018 discussions, those discussions make them say to president trump, you have to have a coherent agenda, and it can t but know shifting from day-to-day. all right. let me get a republican here ask him, robert, what do you make of that? you got john nichols saying the republicans will come back with a different posture towards president trump. do you agree with that? yes, but i agree for different reasons. the reality is we control this town, we control all the branchs of the government t. reality is
seeing it yet. also since kelly has been on board the president picked fights even more so with jeff flake the junior senator in arizona, that has gotten under the skin of the caucus in the senate. trump has been burning his political capital. it s easy and fun to watch john mccain vs. donald trump. they have been going after each other. there are a couple lines worth dwelling on, one is the senate and the congress needs to do its basic minimal work and it has not been doing that. they re not passing budgets. they re not going through the appropriations process. so as trump goes through a new phase, he s this outsider president, wageing war against his own white house in a way, congress is playing into his hands by not doing anything. he can run against congress, talk against corporation because congress isn t doing its minimal work in addition to the president not doing a whole lot to work to pass this