God, youre just not helping me at all. Everybodys excited about it. Youre not supposed to look up. I got goggles. Amazon. How do you know those goggle also actually work, because what if you get cheap goggles and you look up and zzzt. Where do you get them from . Theyre like gold, you cant get them. So were all just going to burn our eyes. Halperin, there was that fantastic scene in oliver norths hearings where Brendan Sullivan says i am not a potted plant, sir. Let me just say, youve been off too long. Youre sitting there like a potted plant. I care so little about this. Solar eclipse . So little about it. Ill watch it on the internet. Willie would have picked that right up. Anyway, im obviously here 99 years. 99 years, right, but it is going to happen again very soon. I reckon theyll get to 1 15 and suddenly youll get excited. The sky will go dark, it will be mystical. Ill be napping. Kids dont look up at the sky, its just not worth it. Few things rarely are. With us senior political
Michigan school of public policy, former democrat tick columnist harold ford jr. And chris tip anderson, columnistened new poll numbers on the president we will get to and paul ryan as you know still seems to be like staying right in a very, very clear lane away from criticizing the president. Frame the morning for us. Well, you know, first of all, you talked about the sweet smell of tax cuts. We had bob corker on several kwooex weeks ago, even before his feud with President Trump. He was talking about how this was going to make trying to Pass Health Care look like a spring picnic and bob corke will be on today, hes sounding the alarm on the hymn. He wants tax cuts to pass. But at the same time he knows they will try to close 4,000 of loopholes, lots of luck. We will be talking to bob corker there. Mika, i think barnacle and willie would both agree, the most important story out there was an incredible world series, mark barnical, it was a homerun derby. It was like a midsummers treat a
Next year. There was an announcement yesterday. There goes the neighborhood. Well. Were going to break down what all of this means for mcconnell, the Republican Party and President Trump. With us on set we have ms nbc political analyst school of public policy, former democratic congre congressman harold ford jr. This seems like the tennessee mafia. And because hes smart. And he reads them. Senior politics reporter at the usa today, heidi brinide heidi joins us. What a sad day. We will go through the details. Roy moore coming up to washington, d. C. , you know, there is reason donald trump didnt support that guy. He will do exactly what he wants to do and in the age of political free agency is about to get aamped up to such a degr good luck, Mitch Mcconnell and republicans. Roy moore had a lot working against him in terms of trump, Mitch Mcconnell. All that money pumped into that race by Establishment Republicans and he won by what ten points . So it was not close. Thats a huge sweeping
By this weekends torrent, offensive and at times dangerous tweets aimed at the nfl, nba and Nuclear North Korea. Stop me if youve seen trump play out this vaudevillian act before. His foes explode in fury and both sides play into the plan to launch a mini war. They take trumps verbal bait. As John Podhoretz said trump is pavlov. We are the dogs. While thats going on, his cabinet secretaries march out to sunday shows, humiliating themselves in defense of indefensible idiocy. Whether you love him or whether you hate him,onald trump thrives on this sort of political tribalism. His attacks are going on as Health Care Reform is hanging in the balance, about to die. His treasury and hhs secretaries are mired in spending scandals regarding corporate jets and, oh, yeah, america continues to careen to a nuclear standoff. Obsessing about mens tennis during the cuban missile crisis. Justin shanes pointed that out. Who can forget that, when at the height of the cuban missile crisis, president kenn
Politics in order to raise money for victims of recent hurricanes. Four of the five former president s made brief remarks, appealing for national unity. Beautiful. I tell you what, what a great night. Fantastic moments there. And a reminder, richard, that thats how things have been for 240 years, that what were going through now is an anomaly, a one off. And what people saw on stage there with five president s representing, you know, americans in the white house from 1976 forward, through january with 2017. Thats the rule. Thats how we do it as americans. Thats how we won the cold war, from harry truman to ronald reagan, unbroken chain of president s working together. And it is hopeful. Its bipartisan. Its also people who defeated other people coming together. So, theyve buried, if you will, the political hatchets. Yeah. And, mark, you could look at every one of those president s up there, especially if they replaced one another. President s dont usually think too much of president s t