some democrats who might go ahead and vote to confirm, especially democrats from states that donald trump won decisively in the election, who themselves, these senators, are up for re-election in two years. those senators, i think there are about ten of the democrats up in trump states, they re going to be i would imagine people who get a lot of attention from reince priebus, jarrod kushner, steve bannon in the months ahead. i think there will a rester investigator from states that will feel the pressure of trump support. remember, donald trump is not coming in now with some huge sense of tail winds and wind in his back, not a big approval rating now. i am not sure the pressure is there now that they feel they have to be on board with trump. in his first executive orders, the president signed an executive order to scale back obamacare, the affordable care act, at least taking initial step. not a formal repeal, certainly
off eight years of a strong pepper of vice president to president, one that built quickly preceded by a close relationship between george w. bush and dick cheney. will we expect this strong president-vice president relationship to continue to three presidencies in a row? mike pence has shown he defers to donald trump when asked about any number of things. he really will give donald trump pretty much all credit for anything that happens in the government, anything positive that happens. in some ways if he continues to be deferial to donald trump. there is jarrod kushner who has family ties and super close to him and steve bannon and others that will be vying for that attention. it will be interesting to see how much power mike pence has once behind closed doors.
it is health care policy, national security, the debt, tax, et cetera, will they be able to maneuver around him? i think the answer to that question is it will depend on jarrod kushner and ivanka donald trump or as i like to call them javanka. they will be donald trump s first and last sounding board in the white house. he will defer to jarrod kushner a little bit and that s the relationship along with steve bannon that will be pivotal. if you are mitch mcconnell, just call jarrod. why fight with the middleman. we have seen that donald trump has a habit of bringing ivanka or jarrod kushner to meetings in the sense they provide assistance to him and understanding in what is going on in interviewing the late wayne barrett or tony schwartz
with donald trump we are not dealing with somebody that has to be kind about it, issue, knowledge, depth. he is more about being president for the level of respect he thinks he is getting from people over time. this is about him looking like the smartest guy in the world and being able to brag as president. the big, grave concern is this reliance on jarrod kushner and ivanka trump comes as they are connected to his business empire. i have talked to international journalists who say their interpretation is somebody who makes is decisions based on what could make him and his businesses money. that s the way that third world leaders have dealt with politics not the typical way an american president operates. imagine sh this is a rekouring phenomenon in the oval office. imagine the thereforery of bad news to donald trump. how does he process bad news, an
i think the answer to that question is it will depend on jarrod kushner and ivanka donald trump or as i like to call them javanka. they will be donald trump s first and last sounding board in the white house. he will defer to jarrod kushner a little bit and that s the relationship along with steve bannon that will be pivotal. if you are mitch mcconnell, just call jarrod. why fight with the middleman. we have seen that donald trump has a habit of bringing ivanka or jarrod kushner to meetings in the sense they provide assistance to him and understanding in what is going on in interviewing the late wayne barrett or tony schwartz who worked closely with him. he has no attention span and doesn t like to read or study. he likes to have somebody around that he can interpret what he heard and make a decision and