Kicking donald duck, that this had just gone so far, maybe too far. Was there not an argument, especially since theyve brought in an outside expert they didnt just sit there and try to do this themselves, they went to a person respected by both sides and said, give us a fair map, which you now see on the right. Was this technically the wrong thing to do . Maybe is it not for the best . Well, first of all, i would dispute that the expert was somebody accepted by both sides. We didnt know him, so number one. Number two but i will say, ive seen republicans as well give him kudos for previous work. Lets just say for the sake of argument that the other map, you know, was not was not contiguous and compact enough. Theres a process here, and theres a legislature. Theres a judicial theres a democratic process for fixing these things. Now, for five judges on the Supreme Court to stand up and tell the General Assembly that they know better, that in 16 days you guys have to draw a new map, and if
Area, but around the country. Lets hear your reaction. What do you think really happened here . Well, we can only talk about we dont know what happened other than the feds did not see anything they can charge him with, so the statute of limitation passed. He is still the chairman of the Democratic Party and still has tremendous amount of influence in capitol hill. I mean, they call him the mayor of capitol hill. Now, what we have lost is a Senior Leader who would have been chairman of committees from congress. You know, this is a trend where more and more members of congress who are incumbents are dissatisfied with how what the job is, and because its such a tough job youre all day long reacting to complaints and criticisms by the constituency. There is no resultoriented job anymore because youre not accomplishing much. Youre just sort of dealing with crisis and complaints. He did mention partisanship. You know, trey gowdy, congressman brady, many of them are not deciding to run again.
Its a special edition of this week. Obama in the oval. Our final interview with president obama. Eight years ago, he came to our studio for the first time. A president elect confronting an economic crisis, just days away from taking his oath. Does it feel like youre president already . No. Youre going at quite a pace . All the bells and whistles. As much as we are working hard in the next couple of weeks, i think that when youre actually in the Oval Office Making decisions, i think thats going to be different. This time, just days away from the end of his presidency, we came to the white house for his final sunday interview. An hour in the oval office to reflect on the last eight years and the donald Trump Presidency coming next. I met the president in the residence. Mr. President , thank you for doing this. As were walking towards your office, i have to think youre going to miss this short commute. I am. Its one of the biggest benefits of being president that you dont think about unti
House speaker. Now, the state senate, as you know, has the largest republican majority since 1950. Theres the guy thats gonna have to deal with them, governor tom wolf, a democrat. The state house has the biggest republican majority since 1958. Goodness me. Dom giordano, how is Governor Wolf going to do anything over this next calendar year . Well, hes gonna have a lot of trouble doing anything. Hes gonna be on the defensive, but i dont have a lot of faith in these guys in harrisburg who are republicans. How come . You still have the liquor law in place, even though weve had widespread pushback with wolf, and they just seem to be out of touch. The sanctuary cities bill got passed, wolf vetoed it, but they ran out of days and didnt do anything with it. So hell be on the defensive, but i dont know that theres so many people there pushing back against him in a united way among republicans. They squabble. And, you know, matt, theres a lot the governor can do where he doesnt need the legisl
Higher taxes and are irate at wolfs tone. And School Districts across the state are starting to realize how long this has been and are getting furious about the gridlock and about not having the money they need to operate. Another person who may be furious about this . Sam katz. What do you think, sam . Well, im not quite furious, but i would say this. This is very emblematic of where we are today in government. Through reapportionment and through districting of various legislative districts, weve created districts which are not subject to competition. And in order to retain your seat, you have to play to your base, and often, whether thats the Democratic Base or the republican base, that makes it very difficult to find compromise. And we are not finding any compromise here. Governor wolf doubled down on his budget, and im continually amazed that an m. I. T. Phd has a difficult time counting to 103 and 26, which is what you need to get a budget passed. Wolf may be right about everythin