pragmatic animal. he realizes the clock is ticking and there are many who were there to remind him the clock was ticking, and he was able to, while it may not have shaken the balance, he made sure when leaving the court it did not cause greater damage. we know a 5-3 court is bad for progressive, a 6-3 court is worse, and a 7-3 court is without question. this isn t a change in the idealogical makeup of the court, but it is a long-term change should president biden nominate someone really young that could serve on the court for 40 years or so, whatever, 30, 40 years. so what does it mean, big picture, for biden to have this chance, and what would it mean what would it say about the republicans if they try to fight it, anyway, or if some democrats joined them and tried
by honestly. but i do think the country is less divided than often is portrayed. i think the country with every passing year we have people traveling, more families are spread out. there s a lot starting to make us more one culture rather than a series of regions. so there s real political division, but in cultural terms i think we re actually slowly but surely becoming a more connected country. so i don t think the notion that the mayor of the largest city in the country, a place that represents all of america in so many ways couldn t get a fair hearing. i was out in iowa and rural areas, iowa, south carolina, nevada, and folks are raising the same kind of concerns my constituents in new york are raising. i think what it comes down to is they want change, right? if 2020 isn t a change election i don t know what is. you dropped out of the race in september, and now we re seeing other candidates just
kavanaugh. that was putting her under pressure and causing a lot of stress and she didn t want to answer a lot of questions on capitol hill on friday by that point. at this point we knew the letter existed and what had some sense of what the allegations were going to be. if murkowski and collins were to signal even privately and the republican leader mitch mcconnell that they weren t comfortable moving forward, that might have a significant impact on this process. but on the flip side, the dynamics that have been set up because of the way this has unfolded may mean there isn t a change in the status quo even though this woman has come forward. the other piece that i think we re all thinking about is that you see many allegations against many powerful men have a re impact in the course of the me too movement over the last year or so. one of the things that has been common to all of those is that we ve often had to see more than one allegation. i think you heard in the washington post
understand he likes to claim credit for success, and they ve already given him one thing that is arguably positive. now, one can be very skeptical about it, of course, because everything kim has put on the table now can be withdrawn, and it really isn t a change in his behavior. he had already stopped testing, and i personally think his nuclear program is far enough along that he can comfortably halt it for a while. so he hasn t given a lot, but he s certainly given president trump something that he can crow about. and in a sense that s successful, i think, manipulation of the president. and gwenda, that gets to a question i did want to get to you on. a reading on donald trump, a, he s needy. he craves approval. on the other hand he tries to portray himself as a tough guy and is drawn to other tough guys. but then number three, when he
employers, wanting to band together and act like big group employers. regardless of what you think about the executive order not determined by the agencies when they do this, this isn t a change in the american health care system at all. right, and if you could do it by executive order, it probably wouldn t be. you break a lot of news on the russian investigation. and i wonder if you have gone through the exercise of trying to track looking back. sometimes we don t know when they re coming. but if you look back to periods of great instability in this white house. and i think the chief of staff going out there was an acknowledgment someone had to calm the waters. i m wondering if you think there s anything on the horizon, any developments orb something that might hit a nerve on the russian probe? something to keep an eye on is who is handing over documents to russian investigators and