$110 billion. that s is a grotesque calculation to make. this administration is not the first to make it. it the first really to make it openly and honestly and as sort of nakedly as trump has. other administrations, democrat and republican, have had to calculate the cost of messing with the saudis for all kind of reasons. we can reevaluate that relationship but it is a cost that is considerable. going back to what we heard from pat robertson, are you surprised to hear a person of faith take this stance? that s the thing i m taken aback by. that s not how a minister should be talking about this. that s literally the reverse of the gospels and teaching of jesus christ, to put literally
trump has taken a lot of flak for talking about jobs when it comes to this disappearance and it is somewhat grotesque to sort of nakedly calculate the cost of a human life. he s not the first president to do it but the first to do it openly. but we also have to sort of be grown-ups about this and recognize that, you know, your and my state of connecticut, for example, directly benefits from these arms deals. you know, connecticut took in, connecticut companies received $23 billion in defense contracts, just last year, between 2017. the state got over $182 billion in defense contracts. i don t think you re willing to tell your constituents that those jobs shouldn t matter. so is it what trump said or how he said it? s.e., i get concerned when people go down that path. in other words, when they start putting our basic values of
strong words today from elizabeth warren, who said president trump s promise to drain the swamp is beyond laughable. the trump era has given us the most nakedly corrupt leadership this nation has seen in our lifetimes. but they are not the cause of the rot. they re just the biggest, stinkiest example of it. corruption is a form of public cancer, and washington s got it bad. the democratic senator from massachusetts introducing the anti-corruption and public integrity a integrity act. it would impose a lifetime ban on lawmakers from becoming lobbyists. another big push for national attention by warren, another piece of a populist platform many see as the framework for a possible 2020 presidential run.
this is sort of nakedly partisan and in many cases these politicians believe that is what their constitch webts wants. they want support for donald trump. chuck was talking in the last block about institutions of our democracy holding up. you mentioned congress not doing quite as well. i would agree with that. the constitution is a piece of paper. it doesn t defend itself. and if members of congress, whether they re cowardly, whether they re complicit, whatever the calculation is for them, if they do not decide that the institutions of this democracy actually matter and are worth standing up for, those institutions will continue to be weakened because donald trump is surrounding himself right now with a bunch of cable tv hosts, people who are enablers who tell him what he wants to hear. lindsey graham saying this will be the beginning of the end of his presidency on tv seemed to me like a guy trying to warn donald trump. but it also seemed like sort of a toothless warning. what has don
it s a way for him to avoid some of the really difficult questions that are pursuing him here in this country. and he tries to avoid those overseas. so coronell, because our nakedly political guy here on this panel, let me say this, tough talk. has gone over well with the trump base is the trump base ignoring or unaffected when the talk gets squishy and a lot more praise comes when he is on foreign soil. yeah it s it s a tight rope he s got to walk. because you know one of the things that s interesting is he talks tough about these countries and the leaders when he is not face-to-face with them, right. when he is back when he is not face-to-face he is talking tough. and hitting a lot of nationalistic notes that play well with the base. but maybe we re seeing a little bit of growing up here. because when you re on a national stanl you have to get