part of this, dana. basically, this class warfare rhetoric has gotten more since obamacare. this is their pivot, correct? it could be what he really wanted to achieve as president. you read the new yorker piece that ran yesterday, the president said at the end he wants to be judged on whether or not he provided a ladder for the people at the lower income levels to be able to get up to the top. what he s done is he has set an agenda. this shows again that the people think that congress can set the agenda and lead in washington. no, the presidents do that. they shape the narrative. everybody is now talking about income inequality. immigration was it for a while. that was the one they were going to talk about. that s not going to work. the income inequality is almost amorms because it s about feelings. do you feel better about your situation? most people feel worse about the direction of the country and their own economic situation than they did except for rich people. six or eigh
i think that the putin realistic and he understand that russia know more than great power. it s not the superior power. it s not the original power. the putin interest is just to establish his position inside the former soviet union, creating the custom union, economical union, and many other things. of course, he want to be presented in the world and member of the g-20 as any of this country s wanted it to be on this stage and present their point. but they will not interest don t challenge united states like it was during the cold war and when my father was in power. it was only two powers in the world who try to deal with each other. that s for sure. it was simpler back then. for his part, vladimir putin relied heavily on the u.n. security council as a place to exert his control on the world stage. he stressed its important roll in the op-ed that ran yesterday.
point. but they will not interest or challenge the united states like it was during the cold war and when my father was in power. only two powers in the world who tried to deal with each other. that s for sure. it was simpler back then. for his part, putin relied heavily on the u.n. security council as a place to the new york times op-ed ran yesterday. crew chess, your father, knew the value of using the u.n. in a very different way for theater, whether it was pounding the table in protest or disrupting a speech in protest, he used confrontations as a way to command attention. take a look. none of us particularly were welcome in our countries, a large number of officials, a large number of officials from abroad, a large number i d like it translated, if you would.
we have a chart that i believe ezra klein in the washington post ran yesterday. you look at the swing. the right the right ribbon keeps going up in terms of ideology and extremism. to amplify the point that jonathan just made, we now have a party, whether you are looking at the senate or even the supreme court is in the business of unmaking laws. not making laws. they are in the business of saying 99% of the senate voted to renew the voting rights act. radical right on the supreme court says unmake that law. you have an entire congress whose purpose to be to unmake obama care, undo this idea of having the consumer financial protection bureau. just undo it. they re just there to unravel government and unravel laws. this is not i don t believe what the founders intended the congress, or the supreme court or any of these entities have do. it is like running for uncongress. republicans are sure trying. we have to take a break and
while she was running? no, she was not eat ago twinkie! she was out there running. she was doing it right and like so many of us, we are putting the attention on fitness and health for women and women breaking barriers and dina caster came out and ran yesterday and she broke her record, broke the course record and so it was great. that s fantastic. chuck todd in washington, were you running a marathon yesterday? i m just curious. i know with 26-year-olds at my 6-year-old s birthday party, i would say you tell me, joe. that is the equivalent. i would just make that argument. you re almost as exhausted. if i could, i d rather run a marathon. chuck, i have a lot to talk to you about. who was advising the president on paying taxes after attacking mitt romney for paying in the teens? paying 18% when he is is worth 14 million. who advised him to do that? they were trying to highlight a couple of things. look at the charitable money he gave and he did give almost a