Host of the podcast radio free gop. And from austin, texas, matthew dowd, chief political analyst for abc news. I am pleased to have them both on this program. We have a lot of people around this table talking about 100 days. Let me just talk about it at the beginning of this from a political standpoint. Assess donald trump and his political performance and future. Mike . Mike i would say on the plus side, we conservatives are happy with the Supreme Court outcome. And he has continued to set the agenda, which is what a president has to do. On the minus side, i think there are more things. He has not positioned himself in a place where he has any popularity or strength in the country, other than the voters who are the core of support. He talks to the base with the same Campaign Rhetoric he used. And on the legislative side, he boxed himself out of working with democrats by becoming so radioactive, you are a democrat who helps them, and you will he has not done a lot of what a president
Host of the podcast radio free gop. And from austin, texas, matthew dowd, chief political analyst for abc news. I am pleased to have them both on this program. We have a lot of people around this table talking about 100 days. Let me just talk about it at the beginning of this from a political standpoint. Assess donald trump and his political performance and future. Mike . Mike i would say on the plus side, we conservatives are happy with the Supreme Court outcome. And he has continued to set the agenda, which is what a president has to do. On the minus side, i think there are more things. He has not positioned himself in a place where he has any popularity or strength in the country, other than the voters who are the core of support. He talks to the base with the same Campaign Rhetoric he used. And on the legislative side, he boxed himself out of working with democrats by becoming so radioactive, you are a democrat who helps them, and you will he has not done a lot of what a president
Coverage of donald trump. He details allegations that russia has Compromising Material on donald trump that could be used to blackmail him. The dossier was written by a former uk Intelligence Agent called christopher steele. Heres our security correspondent frank gardner, with more about him. Hes a former Intelligence Officer at mi6, he is a specialist in russia. His firm was hired by a washington lobbyist, initially they we re washington lobbyist, initially they were hired by the republicans, who we re were hired by the republicans, who were looking to come up with some dirt about donald trump. Eventually it was the democrats who were interested. What he found in tapping up interested. What he found in tapping up his old russian contacts in the russian successof up his old russian contacts in the russian successor to the kgb, he eventually got the document passed to the fbi. That was in august last year. In october it started to leak out, partly from a Security Conference that took pl
Coverage of donald trump. He details allegations that russia has Compromising Material on donald trump that could be used to blackmail him. The dossier was written by a former uk Intelligence Agent called christopher steele. Heres our security correspondent frank gardner, with more about him. Hes a former Intelligence Officer at mi6, he is a specialist in russia. His firm was hired by a washington lobbyist, initially they we re washington lobbyist, initially they were hired by the republicans, who we re were hired by the republicans, who were looking to come up with some dirt about donald trump. Eventually it was the democrats who were interested. What he found in tapping up interested. What he found in tapping up his old russian contacts in the russian successof up his old russian contacts in the russian successor to the kgb, he eventually got the document passed to the fbi. That was in august last year. In october it started to leak out, partly from a Security Conference that took pl
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