bipartisan bills floating around here on the senate side of things that would potentially impose much stricter sanctions, much more punishment for the russians should they choose to get involved again in 2018. so you are seeing congress flex a little bit of muscle on this. this is not an academic issue for congress in the way that it might be for the white house. when every single member of the house is up for reelection, these folks are see their jobs and careers on the line here so they want to be as strong as possible on this. that hearing tomorrow afternoon with mike pompeo on this topic is going to be fascinating. on one hand we re glad that he s acknowledging that russia did involve themselves. on the other hand, they said they better stop doing it, we re waiting to see what sort of teeth better stop doing it has. what are we expecting? is this the central topic for mike pompeo in his testimony tomorrow? reporter: that s hard to say.
didn t quite make it. how will the progressive wing of the president s base react to this? we know there was information from des moines register interview where the president talked about a grand bargain, that stoked the ire of some on the left do not play your cards on this before there is a deal cut. don t give away the farm before we re at the bargaining table if ever. richard trumka says today, afl-cio president in the meeting with the president, says see what we do, see if we aren t independent. whenever something is good for workers we ll support it. if it s bad for workers it doesn t matter to us who proposes it. we won t be on board. we won t be taken for granted. look, if you have to remind the republicans as david brooks did, you re not in 2010, you have to tell the president you ain t there either. flex a little bit. have a little swag. come out and be the guy to say look, the cards are clearly in my on my side on my part of