polarizing, and, therefore, they create almost as many enemies as they win friends. in a boston globe op-ed you highlight similarities between clinton and trump, painful transition, health care reform, narrowly winning on taxes, fixation on the financial market and obsessive involvement of family members and lousy press coverage. are you really saying that trump is the new clinton? no, i m not. what i m making very clear is their personalities couldn t be more different, and i make this issue in the pace. take the issue of race, they could not be more different than individuals, but sometimes i think our media have become obsessively obsessed with personalities, and i can see why. the personality of donald trump is larger than life. he wants us to talk about his personality endlessly. it s kind of what gets him up in the morning, but politics and history are about more than just individual personalities. the structure of politics matters. the constitution of the united
the white house is insisting you need 60 votes to pass this thing. that means democrats have to come on board. without any help from the democrats, there s nothing we can do. stephanie. all right, i have to break this down. robert costa, washington post national political reporter and msnbc political analyst. and host of washington week on pbs which i hope you ll watch tonight. ron insana, cnbc contributor. grace rau, a political reporter from new york one. roberto, to you first, what s the president doing to avert this shutdown? do you foresee him? i believe he is going to come in, wearing a cape, flying in, saving the day at the very last moment. just as the markets start to shake in fear, the president will swoop in. the market will recover. and then he can say who s giving all the credit to obama for the rallying market? it s all me. if he s going to be able to get the democrats that come along, stephanie, he has to show some kind of signal. democrats say they ve been
should we not be concerned about the impact on our culture and our future and the hate rising in this country? look at the market. the market is basically saying words don t matter. i like these policies. when you talk to trump supporters, they say i don t like how he behaves and what he has to say, but i like the policies. isn t that shortsighted? should we not add any element of thoughtfulness? we began talking about his low approval ratings. i would be worried if the president was enormously popular, and if people said i absolutely love the way that he us uses profane language or i m delighted to hear he had affairs with porn stars that have been hushed up. that s not been happening. the opinion polls are telling a pretty clear story, and that s why i m not in a state of great panic in the way that i fear some academics have been over the last 12 months. i don t think the united states is descending into tyranny. i think, in fact, the constitution is doing pretty
quick sales, russian figures coming in to buy properties at an inflated rate and then selling them at a real loss. he says there s this effort to disguise the identity of those properties and then separately we can look at what simpson describes as a real effort. there s been some new reporting that suggests mueller s team is looking into this. of russian figures to really infiltrate conservative organizations like the nra. they targeted these various conservative organizations, religious or otherwise, he says. and why is this important. this is because as some of the democrats on the committee asked simpson, is this really enough evidence to say there s a link between the president and potential financial leverage that vladimir putin has on him and what simpson tells them is that basically all these oligarchs, are agents of the state now, everyone works for putin, he says. a pattern of off market real estate sales. those sales to foreign investors with shell companies. that sure sou
the stock market s a near-term call on corporate profitability. right now corporate profits look great. the economy s pretty strong. we saw jobless claims yesterday fall to the lowest level in 45 years. so at 220,000 claims, labor market is really white hot at this point. the economy looks fine. that s what the market is looking at. also looking at a synchronized global economic recovery supporting all markets of the world. we need to remember that, the global economies. it s not just the u.s. economy, around the world. well, wouldn t you think, though, with a possible shutdown looming, we would see the market tick down? or is the market saying please, it ain t happening? i think the market views this as kaboki. it gets resolved. it s a passing crisis if you want to call it that. but it s a mini crisis. whatever it is, the world doesn t end when the government shuts down. we know that from the mid- 90s. so the market s looking at other stuff that s more germane to