but the problem is, in the absence of the bully pulpit that only the president can speak from there s not the galvanizing affect to warn people, warn the american electorate of what the russians and now, others that will emulate the russians to interfere in our election process for 2020. the president s response was consistent with the last time he was with putin, and just kind of mockingly jokingly, made a joke of it. so, he doesn t take it seriously. and i think the reason is, it goes back to when we briefed the president, the then president elect on january the 6th of 2017. in which, he just could not get his head around it or refused to accept the information, because it cast doubt on the legitimacy
that. the restaurant thing, ted cruz doesn t care about that. he knows he doesn t take off the senator hat when he goes to have dinner with his wife. like, it s uncomfortable to see. that said when mitch mcconnell is talking ability this backfiring, he s not talking about that. he s talking about the kavanaugh hearings where there were 20 million people, and tay saw protester after protester getting hauled out by the capitol police, interrupting a hearing a lot of people wanted to watch. so i think that s where mitch mcconnell feels they had some success because those hearings in particular, the protesters interrupting over and over again, that did have a galvanizing affect on the base. adam, do you think these kind of confrontations play right into the gop s hands? i m not losing sleepover it.
shores. this is the first u.s. strike against an isil leader in lebia. we ll go after them wherever they operate. it comes days after the u.s. drone killed brit jihadi john. he had appeared in video showing hostages beheaded. what does it mean when it changes the rhetoric but change what happens on the ground? it may have a galvanizing affect the way the execution of the jordan pilot had in jordan. but that didn t change the military strategy. the coalition is reloying on air strikes and the u.s. is carrying out 95 percent in syria and 78 percent in iraq and syria. the french aircraft carrier is slateed to go to the gulf and