which was instantaneously. we heard perverse, wish fathering the thought, that this was the next katrina. obviously for political incentive. the notion that was purveyed across the media was the president was not engaged in this, which was false. there was no evidence to support that beyond the extend to which he wasn t tweeting about it. when he does tweet he talks about how shipping interests don t want this jones act, puts his foot in his mouth. when he s not talking about it i have more confidence that he s doing his jonathan when he is. it seems to me president trump s moral instincts aren t necessarily connected to the right thing. right? his instincts don t lead him to do the right thing immediately. his instincts are really about optics. how i m perceived. press coverage. that s the first thing. the second thin is it seems to me that in the midst of the crisis that was happening in puerto rico, we were dealing with donald trump s culture war with the nfl players and his a
you re not there yet, but at the core is to unseat donald trump. you need a democratic president to get the things done. is running for president something you would consider? have you been approached? you have i ve been approached bulgts , but we have to remain focused on 2018. if he can win back the we can win back the house that s how we keep the president in check. i say i m focused on 2018 not running in 2020. so much work to do we can t be distracted talking about 2020. we have these veterans running, new women candidates, the folks who represent the diversity of the democratic party. we can take back the house of representatives hold the president in check and be in a good position to run for 2020. keep recruiting veterans to run for office. that changes the discussion. keep doing that.
george w. bush s presidency to raise money for the tsunami. so that friendship goes back almost two decades. i think michelle obama and michelle obama s mom mrs. robinson and george w. bush bonded during the transition. i think that friendship has been building for more than a decade now too. i would ask our viewers at home the visceral reaction when you saw those three figures. it s reassuring. the visceral reaction when you see our current president. three figures politically couldn t be more diverge ant, yet each one of them felt like comfort food when when you looked at them versus when donald trump comes on the screen and viscerally your body tightens up. trump s going to be there. where s donald trump? he s working, obviously, he s going to be there not obviously, sometimes he s clicking through the cables. maybe he s watching golf. there were chants in the crowd when they stood up expressing support for those three presidents. it was a cool it s a nice moment jus
class families don t see their taxes go up, they might see their benefits go down. they might see it costs more to repair their homes or to do other things that middle class families get. i think that s really where the kind of def in the details will be. mark, i don t know how we can believe anything gary cohn says. when you start at the top and the president says believe me, this will not benefit me. we do simple math. if we say donald trump is worth $10 million, the estate tax alone saves him 4 million. the pass through, smaller businesses within your businesses, 39 to 35%. how does he stand up there with a straight face and say anything with any credibility when he makes that statement compared to the reality of those stunning numbers? look, the original tax plan from the campaign was weighted heavily toward the wealthy. this one is, i think on balance
benefit the middle class or be the miracle donald trump declared it. the fact he s not saying he can guarantee that a middle class won t see their taxes go up is in some ways a red flag for a lot of people hoping for a tax plan that was going to benefit working class people. when you see there is little detail much like there was little detail on health care, they re still talking through the large kind of ideas of this. but i think what s problematic for republicans is that after they built a brand on the idea they were going to be super concerned about the deficit and super concerned about government spending, now they have a tax plan that might end up increasing the deficit. if they do that, they ll have to offset. . i ve talked to people on capitol hill and groups that say they ll play for it maybe by going after entitlement program and programs that help middle class families. if that happens, even if middle