We start tonight with the tea party and what it does to someone like john mccain. I told you it would come to this and now weve got the proof on camera. A party that spits at its leaders listens only to the loudest, angriest person in the back row. Boehner is nothing to this crowd. It never heard of kantor. Mitch mcconnell, a nobody. What matters to the republican far right are the few to dare to be even further right. Now the Huffington Post editorial director. The 2013 version of john mccain version took on his constituents who looked like a room full of right wing 2010 mccains with their antiimmigrant build a fence talk. Heres a bit of his exchange, if you want to call it that, with angry right wing tea partiers. Why didnt the army go down there and stop em . Because the only thing that stops em, im afraid to say, and its too damn bad, but is a gun. Thats all that will stop em. The border is 2,000 miles long, sir. I dont know how many troops and army people you think would have been
Deadline after another, little deadline after another is a subtrifuge, not getting it done. The president is going to stand under two massive aircraft carriers and warn of the dire cuts posed to the nations military. And some 21,000 people at a shipyard saying looming cuts create anxiety and anger. Ill be in the tide water region of virginia where workers will sit idle when it should be fixing ships. Even as he engages with the gop, later today at the white house president obama is expected to sit down with two of his troughest critics on the right, john mccain and lindsey graham. They are part of the Immigration Group and two nominations for the president s secondterm cabinet. 195, jack lews bid for treasury to the full senate for a vote and debate is under way on chuck hagels nod for defense with the full vote expected today. Wait, theres more. Also happening today, 75 prominent republicans sign a legal brief coming out in support of Marriage Equality. This is Landmark Development an
Think about the past ten days. The campaign pushed past huge upheavals and growing pains. Think about where they were on the wednesday after the wisconsin primary and where they are today. Its actually a remarkable change with newly hired political veterans, rick wiley and Paul Manafort onboard. This almost feels like a different campaign. Are they actually righting the ship . They appear to be, theyre taking more control of the candidate. Theyve limited his exposure. Theyre keeping his speeches shorter. Theyre getting him to stay on the same message for more than one day at a time and theyve got him on a script. And now that script includes attacking what they have decided to call a rigged delegate system. At this hour, there are actually protrump protesters gathering at Colorado State capital, at the building itself. They say the delegate Selection Process doesnt represent them. So lets look back at the last ten days and what led to what appears to be, at least for now, a changed tru
Leaders, and we need folks who speak the truth. And i found the truth lacking there the state of the union tonight. And its unfortunate that so much needs to be talked about that americans are experiencing. Whether it be their economic truth. The tax bill that is passed is benefitting corporations in the top 1 to the exclusion of working families in this country. I think we need to speak truth about russia. And of course there was no mention about the threat russia poses to our national security, much less any conversation about what it has already done to interfere with the election of the president of the United States of america. The truth was lacking around a conversation who is benefitting economically in terms of bonuses in the statement. We know that 84 of the stocks owned in this country are owned by 10 of the population. So this whole trickle down theory yet again is a false suggestion to the American Public in terms of what they will benefit and how they will benefit economic