frequent flier card. jonathan, is the attempt to flatter this president as staggeringly obvious to you in person covering these events going from hop to hop as it is the next day for most of us on television? reporter: it is, brian. it s a playbook that was written actually back in the spring, far from here in manila in saudi arabia. that was the president s first foreign trip. that was his first stop. they, to quote him, rolled out the red carpet with an elaborate, lavish ceremony and other countries took note. and we have seen that time and again. each country tweaks the formula a little, but the general principles are the same. in tokyo it was lunch with prime minister abe, complete with a hamburger made with american beef. we ve seen that time and again as the officials here are serving him sort of western iced versions of local cuisine to keep him happy. certainly in we ve the miracle of satellite communications has let
going from hop to hop as it is the next day for most of us on television? it is brian. it s a playbook that was written actually back in the spring. far from here in manila. in saudi arabia. that was the president s first foreign trip. that was his first stop. they, to quote him, rolled out the red carpet with an elaborate, lavish ceremony. and other countries took note. and we have seen that time and again. each country tweaks the formula a little but the general principles are the same. in tokyo it was lunch with prime minister abe complete with a hamburger made with american beef. we have seen that time and again as the officials here are serving him sort of westernized versions of local cuisine to keep him happy. certainly in ah, the miracle of satellite communications has let us down from manila, the philippines. you saw jonathan le mire s live location with the bay in the
flatter this president as staggeringly obvious in person to you covering these events going from hop to hop as it is the next day for most of us on television? it is brian. it s a playbook that was written actually back in the spring. far from here in manila. in saudi arabia. that was the president s first foreign trip. that was his first stop. they, to quote him, rolled out the red carpet with an elaborate, lavish ceremony. and other countries took note. and we have seen that time and again. each country tweaks the formula a little but the general principles are the same. in tokyo it was lunch with prime minister abe complete with a hamburger made with american beef. we have seen that time and again as the officials here are serving him sort of westernized versions of local cuisine to keep him happy. certainly in ah, the miracle of satellite communications has let us down from manila, the philippines. you saw jonathan le mire s live
that s what they were saying just last night. a candidate of bigotry, there s no way i can stand with that if that s what the trump white house and it s hard to get past this. the way you deal, the way ronald reagan dealt with this, you pick up the phone and call these democratic members of congress and they are aware that your political strength is such that they are hearing from their own constituents that they better hop to, or they could be defeated in the next election. you know the dynamic, though, that s so different than under ronald reagan, it really is the kicking in of voter identification, voter s rights act, super reinforcement, that everybody is walking around with a republican plus ten, a democrat plus ten, 10% advantage or 15, in some cases, 30 and 40%. all the house races are basically settled, maybe 20 of them are actually in play. but the senate, it s a different animal. and 23 democrat senators are up for re-election. to me, that s where the battleground i