so there s two things president trump sort of likes to pretend that he doesn t understand. one is that his party controls both houses of congress. and when that s the case, they can avoid a shutdown on their own without any help from democrats. so this idea that if there were to be a shutdown it would be on democrats, it simply doesn t hold water. the other idea is that the president has this core support, among 35%, maybe 40% of the public. he sometimes acts as if democrats don t have their own core supporters, their own base, their own constituencies that want different things. so you know, democratic districts, democratic house members, senators, their voters don t want them to vote with the president on the tax bill. so if they re going to not help the president get the budget passed, that s one thing. but the idea that democrats should just fall in line because it s popular with certain people ignores the fact that it s not popular with just as many other people if not more. m
remember that the questions that mccabe is answering are about potential obstruction of justice questions about michael flynn and whether he was compromised by the russians. so outside of the legal framework that we re talking about, there are major national security concerns which is donald trump seemed to be unconcerned that his national security adviser could have been compromised by the russians, and then the question is, why was he unconcerned? and so i think that that gets to the heart of mccabe s relevancy about jim comey s firing. i want to bring manu back in here. manu, what are you hearing from democrats who participated in these hearings? reporter: well, they re pushing back. they said that they believe that republicans today brought andrew mccabe in as an effort to
shows @real donald trump expects blind loyalty and subserveiance, usually found in narcissistic vengeful autocrats. wow, that s a lot coming from john brennen. does he have a point? yeah, i was a little surprised how sharp-tongued that was, but the word narcissism has been applied to donald trump all year. we re just getting normalized by it. but the matter of the peace process has been pretty broken. one can argue about trump s move to moving theomy baes to jerusalem or not. i don t think it was wise to do what nikkei haley did at the united nations, a blackmail threat. to start really pounding away at
yeah, that s funny, but that s not surprising. i mean, trump likes himself acting in a certain way and then everyone else acting in a different way towards him. i just think, i ve talked to people in the white house and around the white house. i think the degree of pressure the degree to which, you know, i don t know, look, everyone wants to get along with the president. there s always a certain amount of sycophancy in white houses and to presidents and no one is exempt from that obviously. look at lyndon johnson. doug knows more about this than i do. richard nixon. there s always look at someone like henry kissinger, very serious person. those conversations in private with richard nixon are cringe-inducing. not in public. in the public, it s the president, you re vice president, and you behave with dignity. there s a kind of third world banana republic quality to the way pence is personally and again, the personalization is what gets me. and i think it s inappropriate for a co
yorker, trump makes fun of pence behind his back to people all the time. mocking him, belittling him. so it s a it was a smart move, i think, donald trump, picking pence. he did a good job for him on the campaign and he s kind of doing a kind of, i guess, adequate job as v.p. right now, but these sorts of scenes just diminish him when he does that sort of sycophancy. stay with me. when we come right back, vice president pence made a surprise trip to the troops in the war zone instead of the president himself. is that unusual? the wish house. people visit national parks from all over the world. food tastes better when you don t have to cook it. he was just supposed to be my dog. i don t know why. (vo) we re proud that, on behalf of our owners, the subaru share the love event will have donated over one hundred fifteen million dollars in just ten years. get 0% financing for 63 months on select models. plus we ll donate $250 to charity.