Welcome to newsmakers. Returning this week is stephen law, president and ceo of the Senate Leadership fund. Their goal is to support Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and retain republican majority in the United States senate. Thank you for coming back. It is a timely week. This week on tuesday is the special election to fill Jeff Sessions seat in alabama and we will talk about that and also about the seeming feud between the president of the United States and the Senate Majority leader. Lots on our agenda. Let me introduce the two reporters who will be asking questions. Erica warner is the chief congressional reporter for the associated press. Thank you for coming back this week. Erica my pleasure. Al weaver joins us for the first time. He is a political reporter for the washington examiner. Erica, why dont you start . Erica steve, i think we have to kickoff with asking about the trumpmcconnell feud. What did you think about seeing the president lay into your former boss when you
The 2018 midterms . Steven i feel like the kid who is listening to his kids arguing upstairs and just wishing everyone could get along. The wall street journal editorial nailed it by focusing on what is really at stake. The journal sympathizes with the president s anger and frustration over the failure or of publicans to pass obamacare. If you watch the final vote happen in the senate where the repeal effort failed, no one was more angry and frustrated then senator mcconnell, who spent a huge amount of time pushing his caucus hard, twisting arms, and holding votes. Mcconnell is very subtle in his anger and he does not show it, but he was obviously upset and irritated about it. Pulling the lens back, what really matters is what is at stake. What is at stake is that in order for us to have success in the 2018 midterms, we have to move serious legislative agenda. That will take cooperation between the white house and congressional allies in a somewhat uneasy relationship. The democrats ha
Democrats, 202 7370001 and independents, 202 6280205. Phone lines are open so start dialing in. Let us begin with the reaction from donald trump. He issued a statement yesterday after president obama expelled the Russian Diplomats as well as closing two compounds in the u. S. Saying it is time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. But in the interest of our country, i will meet with leaders of the Intelligence Community next week in order to be updated on the facts. From capitol hill, the chairman of the Armed Services committee, john mccain saying that the white house sanctions are long overdue but a small price for russia to pay for this reason attack on u. S. Democracy. Senator mccain promising tougher action against russia. Leader, the top democrat in the senate says strongly support the Obama Administration work to fight back against russias interference in our election system. And the top democrat on the Foreign Affairs committee, senator ben cardin sing the whi
General Michael Flynn at this hour. The fallout from his resignation last night resonating from the capitol to moscow. President Trumps National security adviser falling on his sword after it was revealed he talked to the Russian Ambassador about sanctions during the transition and misled Vice President pence putting pence in a very awkward position. Richard haas was a staffer at the National Security council on bush 41. Now the counsel on relations with me live on what he says is the most burning question you all should have about flynns departure . And tesla was far and away the leader in the driverless car race but is the combination of Silicon Valley and detroit about to leaveering lon muscin the slow lane. Jeff flock and star auto analyst tim higgins is a journalist on this stuff. Hell get the checkered flag in the next great car race. Which names you might want to be looking at to buy on this one . Air jordan slamdunks the drama at Madison Square garden between former knicks star
Second. He would come in so high. He believes his number. Not everyone else im surprised that the average stayed below 200. I am too. Given how hot the number was. Its not a one to one correlation. Every other signal on jobs indicates that the market has gotten stronger and stronger for jobs. This 8 30 number we say how big it is. This one actually does [ overlapping talking ]. The futures are looking at 100 odds that the fed raises rates. If you get a weaker than expected number will they still feel like they can go ahead humor me today and go for 450 or something. We just want to see the tweet from trump. You would want that for the american humor you for the purposes of tweeting. It would be fun to watch drudge put boom and have a picture of him. That would be fun. Would you prefer so that you can Say Something negative that less americans get put to work for whatever reno they get put to work. For whatever reason, were hoping for a big number. For other reasons like the last eight