remember, this is someone, president trump, who has he never worked in washington, has never had to try to pass a major piece of legislation or even a minor piece of legislation. and there is a learning curve there. it s not easy to govern. getting elected is one skill set, governing is quite another. so republicans on capitol hill who have been either in a majority with a democratic president or in the minority and a president with no governing experience, they ll all need to learn how to get legislation passed and clearly they are not there yet, as paul ryan said yesterday. jason, i saw you shaking your head. that s not an excuse. you get called off the bench, you do your job. they sent legislation to president obama that got vetoed. this has nothing to do with learning how to govern. it has to do with learning how to be a responsible legislator. the republicans had seven years to solve the very clear problems with obamacare. but all those times they voted
is there a numerical cut off where it starts to be a real thing? listen, there s ongoing drama over whether the president will have to defy overt nepotism laws in order to hire his son-in-law as a senior adviser. or to have a president with zero days of governing experience. to have an adviser with no governing experience. amidst that, there was news broken by cnn and bolstered by buzz feed this evening about russia. on the surface this looks like red-hot stuff. i will tell you the amount verified by u.s. intelligence agencies or nbc news is very thin. president obama and the incoming president and the gang of eight, leadership of house and senate, intelligence committees,er they were given a dossier of alleged dirt the russians allegedly say
phd,er is it still politically motivated attack? is there a numerical cut off where it starts to be a real thing? listen, there s ongoing drama over whether the president will have to defy overt nepotism laws in order to hire his son-in-law as a senior adviser. or to have a president with zero days of governing experience. to have an adviser with no governing experience. amidst that, there was news broken by cnn and bolstered by buzz feed this evening about russia. on the surface this looks like red-hot stuff. i will tell you the amount verified by u.s. intelligence agencies or nbc news is very thin. president obama and the incoming president and the gang of eight, leadership of house and senate, intelligence committees,er they were given a dossier of alleged
over whether the president will have to defy overt nepotism laws in order to hire his son-in-law as a senior adviser. or to have a president with zero days of governing experience. to have an adviser with no governing experience. amidst that, there was news broken by cnn and bolstered by buzz feed this evening about russia. on the surface this looks like red-hot stuff. i will tell you the amount verified by u.s. intelligence agencies or nbc news is very thin. president obama and the incoming president and the gang of eight, leadership of house and senate, intelligence committees,er they were given a dossier of alleged dirt the russians allegedly say they allegedly have on donald trump.
the american people and the american people elected him. that s a big asset to them. president obama had he had been in the united states senate for practically a hot minute before he announced he would run for president. he d been a state senator but people liked that, too. they liked the fact that they had somebody in 2008 and again in 2016 can arguably look them in the eye especially given who their opponents were and say, i will go to washington as your president owing nobody anything. and i will work for you. it was a compelling argument for president obama in 2008, it was a compelling argument for donald trump in 2016. on security issues is you have president-elect trump without any national security or foreign policy or governing experience. you also have a secretary of state who only has private sector experience, no public service, no governing experience. you have a national security adviser who phrased some of the questions that i have about his judgment notnotwithstan