worked for was very involved in these kinds of issues and with china and technology and stealing the property and national security issues and cybersecurity and zte is one of the kind of companies we have to be very careful with. this is going on for many years. back in 2012 # when i worked in congress, there were le were letters sent expressing concerns about zte and it is a national security issue and it is off brand and how does this make those in the heartland voting for trump thinking they would get jobs back that were lost to china and he s tweeting about saving jobs in china. that is so inappropriate. what is he doing getting involved in a tweet influencing the commerce secretary on something like this. it is inappropriate and it is him cozying up to xi jinping is not the way to cut a deal. it is not a real estate deal. tara and m.k., thank you. appreciate it. and moments ago the white house depended the choice to have two pastors speak at the embassy opening today. let e
outside of the policy world, but it will be entertaining. i hope it s not in the white house. who knows. m.k. and bill, thank you so much. we re waiting for this press briefing. sarah huckabee sanders has lots to talk about today. also ahead, are members of the republican party trying to work around president trump to find a bipartisan way to repair health care? this as more and more republicans are speaking out and standing up against the president. also, white house briefing ahead, live, as president trump today signed the russian sanctions bill and now senator john mccain is weighing in. stay here. to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me, and you re talking to your rheumatologist about a medication. .this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain. .and protect my joints from further damage. humira has been clinically studied for over 18 years. humira works by targeting and helping to. .block a specific source. .of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. it s
a republican political consultant who said if they don t do something, it s at their own peril. the question now is whether they start doing it incrementally. and we don t have an answer. and it was clear to me watching paul ryan, it s really true, there was no plan b, none. and remember, to m.k. s point, she s here in suburban washington. a lot of these places where you only have one choice, rural areas represented bip rub cans, they can t go home next year and say this is barack obama s fault. he does not happen to be on the ballot next year. they own this, they own the government just as much as they re going to take credit for the economy, some of which happened under obama and will be improved for president trump. they re in power. you get the benefit, you also get the blame. they are the governing party. i thought speaker ryan was a man actually. stepping up and saying we have growing pains, we stepped up, this is hard. the question is can they recover. did they recover especia
this is a taste of what we re talking about here. trump s team did put out a statement and did disavow this group and their support to new york times and, yet, he has been a lot stronger and more specific in his criticism and other groups. why? simone sanders and mary katherine ham. m.k., let me give you a shot to shoot down my premise. my premise is i heard donald trump when he doesn t like somebody or something and how he comes out against them, it is different than what he s doing with these alt-right/hate groups right now. fair prem sns. yeah. i think he s more interesting going after hillary clinton on the campaign trail than this which is one of the problems i brought up when he was running in a gop primary. one of the things he does is give oxygen. he gives oxygen to these.
we re just going to investigate her from now until kingdom come. and that s something that makes a lot of americans stomachs turn. it makes them want this to not be the reality they re facing. m.k., you re a great illustration of this struggle within the ideological base of the republican party to deal with donald trump. so in psychology, they have reaction formation. i m calling this rejection formation, which is where you got blue-collar workers, struggling middle-class families, and your traditional gop base, many whom look at trump and say you ain t us. whoever gets that answer at the best caliber, clinton or trump, that reaction of negativity of this rejection, will probably win this race. right. well, one idea after the election, if indeed clinton won, is that actually, either way. if tim kaine could talk us to in his dad voice for a couple days and let everybody chill out, he might be the better messenger. this whole race has been a race to the bottom of the barrel.