that s where we start with our saturday night panel. david lit is a new york times best-selling author and former obama speechwriter. eugene daniels is white house reporter, co-author of politico s playbook and an msnbc political contributor. and aisha roscoe covers the white house for npr news. great to see all of you, and i would just love to get your thoughts on 9/11, where your head is at, what you did today, what s standing out to you at the end of this day? just if you could sum it up for us, the three of us. david, let me start with you. where is your head at tonight? well, it s it s so hard to talk about because, you know, like so many people, 9/11 was a national tragedy. and then, we all have our personal story that goes with it. and i i was one of the lucky ones but i was a 10th grader in new york city. went to school on the upper east side. and i remember being in mr. march s 10th grade english class and hearing that a plane hit the towers. i remember walking home
want to know if we can go with elijah cummings, congressman of this information and spread that baltimore there initially at the out there. let s try to confirm that when dedication of a nature play we can as soon as possible. space there in downtown baltimore. but you see him there with very let me bring frank into the conversation as well with me. heartfelt, thoughtful responses so frank, if you have atf and to the controversy that was generated by president trump fbi tell you? attacking not only his much-beloved city, you saw that in his words, his smile and his eyes as he talked about baltimore, but also attacking elijah cummings himself personally. a way to turn around a controversy and make it work for you. we have a bunch of people joining me to talk about this right now. i ve got daniel moody mills, sirius xm, kurt bardella, spokesman of the oversight committee. that is of course elijah cummings committee of which he chairs right now. nbc news political analyst rick tyler. he
years of president obama, russia, the pure confusion is there was weakness from the russian standpoint. still trying to engage us in an aggressive tone. every example you have over the last eight years of the obama foreign policy has led to where we are today with dealing with russia. now what you have, a president who s not going to take a a wek posture or lead from the to mike behind. let s talk about poland. the arms sale. obama said no, he didn t want to do that. he didn t want to do that during his time. why did he want to do that? he wanted to curry favor with russia. people are forgetting about the facts with russia. the obama administration dropped the ball during the last eight years. when you have the president trump, russia is it strategic partner in syria. we have to be partners with them
president obama handle that, he was very hands-on. did a lot of town halls. did a lot to sell his health care plan. i think guy is correct. the u.s. health system is created to make changes difficult. not impossible. the president has to choose to either get in the weeds and details and try and sell it or else he has to delegate that the congress and say i ll back you. what s been hard is the republicans in congress come up with plans. he gets to pass it but he tweets out, the republican house was to mean. martha: apparently that comment is still stinging. they felt they felt betrayed by the fact that he called their plan mean after he encouraged them to push it and then had a big ceremony celebrating the
like to see movement on lowering corporate taxes. he says about getting more people jobs. this is what was promised and this is what the administration promised and he would like to see some action. just to austan s point, some of our allies in eastern europe are also very happy president obama is out of office and donald trump is in office. jamie dimon s frustration is understandable. i think a lot of republicans in this country share it. they say all right, republicans asked for all this control. and now they have it. so far, but we have to show for it? the one note of caution, martha, it s difficult to get things done in our country by design. our founders designed the constitution and fashioned it this way on purpose. other countries have a parliamentary system and weed out any constitution republic. usually that s a feature, not