republicans in 1998 because they were pushing about the impeachment and about clinton, about all the things that went along with monica lewinski the republicans went overboard and lost seats in the mid term. i think the better thing to do is to just as the showcase of your message. run on the things that are most important to people in their lives in their communities and in their families. that tends to be our pocket book issues on the economy, on medicare, on social security. on the economy which the president is very helpful as things continue as they have been. let me ask you a legal question about something that struck me. i was listening to the live interview of rudy giuliani. i sort of stopped in my tracks when he said this is what
reform attached. i m just looking at this from the president s position. he s got nothing done. the republicans haven t been able to deliver. his frustration has grown. they ve been promising to take care of obamacare for seven years. they can t even get a majority of votes, so if you re donald trump and you re looking for a deal that actually gets something done, especially after you ve been to texas twice, is it a big shock that he went to the democrats? it s not, actually a big shock. he ran as a nonideological president. a candidate with hard line positions but who on some of these core issues of spending on medicare, on social security, he never aligned with speaker ryan. and when i was at the capitol last night covering votes, i was really struck by how many republican lawmakers told me privately that maybe they d been misreading trump more than they imagined. that he was never going to really be interested in boxing out the democrats on these kind of fiscal deals.
security. and infrastructure is that falling to have radar. on social security, i think he is clear with his priorities in terms of preserving and protecting this important benefit to our seniors. he understands. i mean, mr. trump has employed so many people over the years he understands the struggle that people have later in life to continue to make ends meet. and i think that he is a keen keenly aware of how important this program is to so many people in their later years. so he is going to continue to fight to make sure that that s a program that is preserved and protected. and then on the infrastructure. infrastructure. of course, he continues to bring that up. he talked with business executives today how many so many of our airports, important to our commerce system, getting planes to land in and out, roads and their ability to truck things across the country, even our freight system. that if your infrastructure is not strong it inhibits our
something that you would support? again, i ve heard the president s promise. and i would sit down and discuss it with him. and i m happy to work with you on the specifics, but i haven t discussed the specifics with him but i know from a high level how he feels and going back to pension fund issue, i acknowledge it s a very significant issue and something i look forward to working with you and your office on. this is very real for people and just as the financial crisis created a serious situation for people with homes an for financial institutions we all know pension funds were involved in that as well an somehow didn t make it to the top of in terms of being made whole so i think that s an unfulfilled promise and obligation that our country still needs to keep. on social security though, there are a lot of ways, i mean what s a cut? a lot of different ways to look at this. whether it s raising retirement
with that i want to know where all the other candidates stand on that. he will try to call them out and presumably set himself apart as somebody blunt and outspoken in his view on that issue which some people may find appealing. the other candidates are not emphasizing that particularly right now. so that might give him some leverage and something to talk beenthe trail. and something with which to embarass the other candidates. but social security is popular. people want their benefits. they don t want them messed with for the most part so it is risky too. martha: not talking about touching it for those who are in several years of getting it. right. martha: means testing a popular idea in the past. that s right. that idea of reducing future benefits to those who are not on the verge of retirement has been articulated before and it has been very hard to convince people in the age group who are about to get the benefit, and those who are already on it that it wouldn t affect them as