we re going to stay with this scene. the president of the united states at capitol hill in a very emotional event. the president is speaking here to honor the fallen police officers who have lost their lives in the past year right here. the president brought a family of the new york police officer slain in the line of duty up on stage. quite an emotional moment there, paying tribute to the family, paying tribute to her partner. the president now is going to participate in a replay of part of this very important annual ceremony again up on capitol hill. we ll watch the president head down the stairs here shaking hands. this is an annual event. president trump taking his time to thank the police officers nationwide who have fallen in the line of duty. a very touching moment. he brought up the familia family. a new york city police officer, a woman. her mother was there, her children were there. now he s going to make his way through the crowd here to thank some of the other families. w
the media to shiv each other. that s a weird way to approach things at the white house, right, the president calling his own staff a traitor. there is usually loyalty in the white house, so this is all kind of strange. whatever you think of the president s policies, they have a point. you would think 16 months in, if you were working for the trump white house, you would either want your job and remain loyal or you would leave. you re absolutely right, you can t runny type of organizat a organization that the climate is so charged you can t have a private conversation. but thaet nt s not the most successful conversation. whenever you think of john mccain s political career, he s an american hero. people on both sides of the aisle agree on his value and what he s done for american life
and governance over the last several decades. and to decline to address any of that and only focus on this, you know, i think is not a winner if you re trying to reach across the aisle or anywhere in the middle. there is a segment of the republican base that doesn t like john mccain and is completely fine with not addressing that issue. it s hard to get your head around the inability to separate the politics. from the lack of institutional responsibility. that is our politics now, is equating the person with their politics. i do think there is a certain extent we ve been missing the forest from the trees. i don t think this is a case of a junior white house aide making an ill-considered comment. i think that sadler s comment really does reflect the views of the president who made a comment, a disparaging comment, about mccain during the primaries and the two of them have had sort of an ongoing view that stretched through the first year of the administration with
inspiring to democrats. she s going to lose a vast majority of them simply over the fact they don t want the symbolism, someone who was identified in this chapter in history, to lead the cia. is there any hope for the american people congress does not have very good approval ratings, in part because they don t do anything relevant to lives. it feels that way, anyway. this is what congress would be doing if it could get enough votes for things. daca, neutrality. especially in an election year and especially when the president is tossing tariffs around. additional nominations, including sexual harrassment, a new plan for congress? where is that one? rescisions package, faa, faa reauthorization.
ostensibly helmed by mr. trump, tending to his own allies and interests even when the president s instincts lean in another direction. i do think mike pence is a sensitive guy who watched joe biden be constructive. let s say they re planning for 2024 and something happens. what are you going to do, not be ready because you didn t want it to look weird? so there s that. there s also the truth, the fact that president trump was very content to have mike pence prosecute a lot of the foreign policy strategy in those early months while he focused on either domestic issues or foreign policy issues that were really domestic issues. but now that the president has turned more toward foreign policy which is generally a tactic for the president, he wants it back. pence is in a tough spot. you see him at these rallies.