act. i think that s important. the last thing i d say is that donald trump as crude and vulgar as he is, is not wrong, he s doing it the wrong way, but there is a skepticism that should applied to the intelligence and military community often and i think the valuization of the progressive left is against the fundamental first principles. that s interesting. when you say take seriously, a chance to look at the record. are you saying as a very well known progressive leader that part of what trump is doing both in his attitude on intel and the way he is withdrawing from these fields of battle, there are good take aways there, even if he is not doing it the right way? i think there is often a reflexive principle because trump is so oddious and such a crude, incoherent person, who has gathered around him, these
know lies more than any in history and providing an affirmative vision for her party. early clues are tonight that trump may dig in on the border wall, as i was just discussing with chuck. that s already drawing pushback from some top republicans. loyal trump ally lindsey graham worrying there could be a war in the party over any trump attempt to bailed wall to emergency powers and some in the gop are saying, just don t do it. this will just be another erosion of congressional authority in this particular area. i think it would be a mistakes take for the president to invoke his national emergency powers for this purpose and thatb a dubious constitutionality. his speech comes one day after aides suspect one of donald trump s white house staff leaked a schedule suggesting that trump does not do much traditional work. 60% of his calendar devoted to
of, it lists the crimes, some of the crimes, ari, that they are investigating. conspiracy, financial crimes. look at, these guys in manhattan, you don t think they know how to investigate, look at a financial balance sheet and investigate financial crimes. that s their bread and butter. that s what they do every day. again, i think it s big problems. steve look at the amount of money spent 40 and $50 million ran him for bush and obama. trump 107 million. why so much more money? the only reason for that is either colossal mistakes management, which this president is supposed to be so good at managing. their concert at lincoln memorial cost five times than ours in 2009. we had almost a million people attended. it amounts to you are drawing attention that more people attended than trumps from. both. do you do that to bother him?
executive time. which is a bit of a pr problem for the president. tonight trump addresses a nation we can see is skeptical of him. an approval, low 43% and lower on other personal characteristics. this is also his first state of the union before a democratic house. there are 40 more democrats in the house since his last such address. also, we should note tonight, new legal heat on trump, it s not from bob mueller. news breaking in the last day, a federal prosecutor issuing a probe for personal mistakes conduct at the 2016 inaugural. we will kick off our coverage with wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander, editor and publisher of the nation matter magazine and a trump surrogate jack kingston. thanks to all of you. there is no way to pick according to rankings, we got a lot of different titles as i list. ly start with the general,
period. there are a lot of people who, have a lot of reason to be 23fr with him, fearful of him, mad at him. but that was one of the most extraordinary moments have you ever seen in american politics period. high praise for what was then a pretty traditional address to congress. and we want to go beyond what some pundits do. there are two speeches tonight that represent two co-equal branches of government. democrats have tapped stacey abrams, whose electric campaign for georgia governor nearly brought her to a historic victory. she will deliver the rebuttal to trump. there is much talk for her running for senate. we are writing the next chapter of georgia s future, no one is unseen, no one is unheard and no one is uninspired.