hypocri hypocrisy? what you re highlights here is at once the most enlightening and the scariest aspect of this. it shows the immense overwhelming power that fox news and drudge has over not just republican members of congress, as you showed. all those people flipped, but over just rank and file republicans. grassroots republicans across the country. for the last several years, you know, many of them have been petitioning the white house, do anything you can to get this man freed. and for years, it was reported if there was a swap it would be these five taliban prisoners for bergdahl. and so many republicans were on twitter signing petitions, demanding that he be releaseded. the minute that it becomes clear that the new line, the new fox news drudge republican line is that obama made a mistake by doing this and he is a traitor that ought to be impeached, all of a sudden you see these grassroots republicans who aren t being paid to do this change their minds. in other words, you re wa
crises or breakdown, if there were other lyes lost and we re not sure about that as a result of the search, then all of that has to come into the equation, and we deal with him as he presents himself, but the very notion that we should have left him five years or more in afghanistan without going back to get him, listen, if a man falls off a ship or if he s pushed off, we turn that ship around and go back and get him and then we go and find the facts. that s how we work this thing out. what i have found most disconcerting today, i ve been looking across the web and i have found individuals, grassroots republicans, who two days ago, four days ago, 138 days ago, were calling for this administration to do whatever possible, calling this president a traitor because he would not bring bergdahl home, and now that he has, he s a traitor to them all the same. we ve even got congressman, former congressman, allen west calling for the impeachment of
minimum wage, if we want to extend unemployment benefits, we need for final passage 60 votes. if fast track is passed, guess how many votes we ll need for final passage? 50 votes. so the fast track concept is a terrible idea, prevents members of congress from offering amendments, provides just the 50 votes for final passage. i hope very much we do not bring this bill to the floor. if we do, i hope it s competed. it s going to be very hard for the conservatives wh where they re concerned about sovereignty in this deal, but it s going to be hard for them to pose it because that pits them against the corporations. this is why rand paul and other big shots on the republican side don t want to talk about this. they don t want to go home and say, hey, i helped you outsource some jobs. what s interesting is there are a lot of grassroots republicans who understand exactly what unfettered free trade is. they have seen jobs in their
do you accept that ultimately, you are responsible for this whole fiasco? no. you are not responsible? who is responsible? the people that i trusted to run and then maybe the people they trusted. the murdochs did their best to distance themselves from the worst allegations, but the question still remains what exactly did they know? and what actions did they condone? one lawmaker thinks they know more than they let on. are you familiar with the term willful blindness? mr. sanders, would you care to elaborate? it is a term that came up in the enron scandal. willful blindness is a legal term. if there is knowledge that you could have had and should have had, but chose not to have, you are still responsible. mr. sanders, do you have a question? respectfully, i don t know what you d like me to say. my question is are you aware i m not aware of that particular phrase. now are you aware of the term because i ve explained it to you. thank you, mr. chairman
is serious about including ellison. but i think what that tells all of us is that there are still some deep divisions. and the extent to which they can heal that, they will then able to take a lot of this energy on the left that has risen up in opposition to president trump and try to do something with that in 2018. do you think you said, it s a matter if he listens to keith ellison, who was backed by brr bernie sanders, and bernie sanders put out a statement, in part, saying it s imperative that the same-old, same-old isn t working and we must bring in young people in a new way. what is the tension when you re talking about these two sides of the party? why is this so difficult to unify? it s really similar in many ways to what the republicans excuse me, what the republicans excuse me. i think we have the same cold, probably. go ahead. it s this change in weather. it s not supposed to be this warm in february. it s a lot of what the republicans went through. where you ha