trump is controversial. the divide in the country seems like it s worse than before. i don t know if that s the case. how do you avoid this at the table? i think it s a good question. you have to be prepared at the beginning. you have to go in and say, you have other topics to talk about. entertainment, sports, the kids. other things. i say stay away from lavar ball, the wall, roy moore at all. i think three things that rhyme, you stay away from them. if it goes south, get to the place with where you listen more than you get heated. you listen. maybe brett, when you re listening, you just chew. you make sure you have a big mouth of food. you re chewing and nodding. you have family fights about other subjects. shannon, sometimes husbands will stay, yes dear. don t go back. it is little thorny. lot of families i know,
say nothing of if we want to see infrastructure and tax policy or another run at health care. i m duty-bound to ask you, if not mcconnell, then who? is it cornyn perhaps, and why stop there? is ryan s job safe as house speaker? you know, i actually think that ryan is more susceptible to this pressure from trump than mcconnell is. ryan has a really, really fractured group of republicans. we have seen the freedom caucus go after him. you have people who are rumbling and grumbling about the vote they had to take on health care only to see it fall apart in the senate, and it s really hard to to state exactly how much mcconnell is liked. yes, flake did take him to task in the book, and yes, there are few senators who question, you know, his approach, but he is so popular. i spoke with senators on their way out of town last week, and to a person, they spoke with great respect for mcconnell, and they may grumble and have internal family fights, but mcconnell is popular, and it s up to his
internal family fights, but mcconnell is popular, and it s up to his fellow republicans whether or not he gets to keep that job, and as long as they like him, it doesn t matter what the president says. kelsey makes a good point. whose legacy has been hurt more with health care? trump or mcconnell? that s a really good question. i don t know. if you talk to people in the republican party, the voters, they are more prone to blame the senate for this than they are the president, in part, because the senate and mcconnell has been promising this for years, knowing full well this would be a tough task and trump, he is knew to this game. he did overpromise in this case. i think mcconnell will be okay eventually. he ll go down as a great tactician, and he was one vote away. remember. all his members were saying they hated this bill. they thought it was gross and tox toxic, and they were praying the house wouldn t pass it and he got 49 votes.
fractured group of republicans. we have seen the freedom caucus go after him. you have people who are rumbling and grumbling about the vote they had to take on health care only to see it fall apart in the senate, and it s really hard to to state exactly how much mcconnell is liked. yes, flake did take him to task in the book, and yes, there are few senators who question, you know, his approach, but he is so popular. i spoke with senators on their way out of town last week, and to a person, they spoke with great respect for mcconnell, and they may grumble and have internal family fights, but mcconnell is popular, and it s up to his fellow republicans whether or not he gets to keep that job, and as long as they like him, it doesn t matter what the president says. kelsey makes a good point. whose legacy has been hurt more with health care? trump or mcconnell? that s a really good question. i don t know. if you talk to people in the republican party, the voters,
of people. we ve seen a drop in the number of people but not in the amount of drug switches my conclusion that it really is the tough talk, new sheriff in town that has changed the calculation of the immigrant but obviously the smugglers are still making profits off that smuggling, they are still able to get their contraband across. jon: political editor at the washington times, thank you. speaking of the biggest newsmakers in the immigration debate, be sure to watch the first 100 days tonight, martha maccallum will interview the secretary of homeland security, john kelly. and attorney general jeff sessions, 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox news channel. gronk secretary of state rex tillerson slamming iran and the deal and curtailing its nuclear capability, the trump admeasure ration now planning a full review of foreign policy toward that country as one american family fights for the release of two relatives currently imprisoned. rich edson is a lie from the state department