across the u.s. so by 33%, which is no surprise. i think there s a lot of fomo. it s a reminder. i think the reminder is a big aspect. i remember when i was single, there was varying degrees of how much it affected me. i think if i didn t have anyone on the horizon and i was comfortable, i let it slide a little more. i just remember celebrating valentine s tay after a breakup on my own, and i i did not want to see anyone. i did not want to celebrate galentine s day. i wanted to pretend like this holiday didn t exist. which by the way, it doesn t really. this is a hallmark manufactured holiday, let s be honest. nobody should have fomo because most of us are just sitting on the couch or having dinner and it s not this romantic thing and so on and so forth, but i ll take the negativity out of it for one moment and just kind of talk about, for me, if you re a single person and you re kind of
our base, so many americans, vast majority, are unsettled about how things are going. it s time to govern. that s the best winning political strategy. let the democrats overplay their hand on these investigations if that s what they choose. but i think this strategy is short term, perhaps shoring up the base but long term i do not see it as a winning strategy either from a governing standpoint or political standpoint. mack mcclarty, robert costa, thank you for being on. members of the military may be happy to see the president, iraqi lawmakers called the visit arrogant. now some say they want the u.s. military out of that country. we ll explain next. the holiday didn t last long for the president s attorney. rudy giuliani is out with a new interview dropping this hour. no surprise, he s lashing out at the special counsel and why he says robert mueller needs to be
what about the idea that he did not end up meeting with the iraqi prime minister? the white house said it s because it was a last-minute visit, they talked on the phone. everything is fine. do you buy that? i do not. we have 14,000 troops in the country. we have to fight with the iraqis and have a political diplomatic strategy work ed out with them. if the president travels all that way, he could have met them at an american air base at a secure cloeks. they would have done that. it s a lack of respect to visit someone else s country and not even meet that country s leadership. you didn t see president obama or president george w. bush do that when they visited combat zones in the past. colonel peter mansour, ambassador nick burns, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. what s going on with the stock market right now. wild ride. dow down nearly 500 points after that historic thousand-point surge yesterday.