with white house press secretary jen psaki talking about texas republican governor greg abbott who has made himself the buffoon face of immigration wars. take a listen, and we ll talk about it on the other side. now that the texas governor is saying that he s going to start bussing border crossers to washington, d.c., when they get here, are you guys going to help them find a place to stay and something for them to do? well, i m not aware of what authority the governor would be doing that under. i think that s pretty clear this is a publicity stunt. his own office admits that a migrant would need to voluntarily be transported, and they can t compel them to. again, enforcement of our country s immigration laws lies with the federal government, not a state. i do want to point out that was, of course, the fox news reporter asking jen that question. but i m curious your thoughts. how can the united states, you know, you re an attorney who studied these issues, how can the united stat
Why Would Anyone Pay Andrew Cuomo $4 Million for a Book?
Books by politicians sell badly and are quickly forgotten, yet the publishing industry spends shovelfuls of cash on them.
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Seven years ago, on the eve of being elected to a second term as governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo completed a rite of passage familiar to all presidential aspirants: He published a memoir,
All Things Possible. It is overlong at more than 550 pages, cliché-ridden, and hopelessly dull, which is to say a standard-issue political tome. Cuomo was paid a more than $700,000 advance by HarperCollins, and the book had an announced initial print run of 200,000. But five months after it was published, it had sold just over 3,000 copies in hardcover and 13 audiobooks. Even by the dismal standards of the subgenre of books by politicians, this was a flop based on a conservative estimate of the governor’s advance, Cuomo earned about $200 for every hardcover sold.
program makes you somehow suspect and reagan quo do that in a domestic context with african-americans. we re seeing it in the immigration context. walk us through your view of the political playbook here. you know in, times of crisis for donald trump, he very quickly falls back on the on you know, the culture wars and what it amounts to the race wars and immigration wars. so this is his favorite and perhaps the easiest punching bag for him. this is how he started his campaign. this is how you know, this is how he ran his campaign. this is what he did, what he focused on in the 2016 special elections and especially the 201 elections and pulling it out again to appeal to his base. this is not about growing his base. this is not about that. one thing i would push back on and really think about is, how often has this been successful
aren t feeling the impact of the tax cut because gas prices keeps spiking or costs of consumer goods keep rising that could be a big political threat. i think big picture here, trump s tariff wars, his immigration car, everything is cultural with trump. you have these threats from foreign nations who are trying to punish the united states, taking advantage of us because we are weak. and at the same time you have the immigration wars going on because there are invading forces coming in to overtake and remake our culture. so i think all of this fits together perfectly with the kind of president we knew we were getting. we re beginning to see a pattern. to add to this new reporting, the white house drafted a bill that would allow the u.s. to operate outside the rules of international trade. the draft legislation essentially abandons the framework set by the world trade organization without a formal withdrawal while the united
got high marks for bringing republicans and democrats together and saying we want a big bill. i ll take on the heat, the opposition. he held out promise of a big comprehensive immigration bill that his predecessors could not achieve. and something happened, according to lindsay graham who then came he pins it down to a couple hour time frame. nonrepublican lindsey graham? caputo says he s not a republican because he criticizes the president. he has been supportive of the president, a lot more than others have. and he has the scars of immigration wars to show he knows what he is talking about. he knows the fractured lines politically on this issue. something happened. hard liners persuaded the president. you can t do this. they are trying to jam you up with a really bad deal so he s dug in. democrats think there is a big deal that s possible. a calculation that they can take the heat from a shutdown.