Rose welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about President Trumps first 100 days. Joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. If you look at these hundred days, i think theres a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. Matthew and i both eluded to earlier, hes got bad numbers. The president has the toolbox. If you are popular you can pressure the congress. He doesnt have that. Hes backed into one part of the Republican Party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the Freedom Caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough Public Policy program am but he is running out of tools. And thats a problem. Rose we continue with Clarissa Ward Senior International correspondent for cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghani
Cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghanistan and gazza i know and have seen first hand the horrors of war and all people from all Different Countries and all different war zones are, of course, victims and suffering enormously. But there is something unique to the Syrian Crisis to both the david and goliath kind of element to it. Whereby you have a civilian population being bombarded from the skies, relentlessly. Where the rebel fighters do not have anything like the same kind of firepower that the russians and the regime and the iranians and hezbollah have when put together. So and to see hospitals targeted, to see Fruit Markets targeted, to see schools targeted, there is a cynicism to the syrian war that really is particularly haunting to me. Rose and we conclude this evening with author and new yorker columnist calvin trillin. I cant remember when pictures were introduced in the new yorker but a the lo of these store hees were written before there were photographs, and before there
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
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