notion we ve become inured to these tax cuts goes back to laffer. taums so it doesn t work. i understand and we all understand when tax rates reach some huge mart whoever said it s going to bring you more than it s going to cost, it s irresponsible and we have trillions in debt to show for it. what do you think about arthur laffer getting the presidential medal of honor? the optics don t look good. and blaming obama for the
behavior that brings it into question. the only reason we have these technically, if it s a party line vote, they have the votes to pass this. the only reason we have this delay is because mitch mcdonnell doesn t think members of his party believe kavanaugh. that s what i think is indicative. this is not about democrats, this is about republicans who doubt this guy. president trump right there has the chance to say let s hear it out, let s investigate it. if it s clean, which i know it will be, because he s the best guy ever, he ll be confirmed. when i watched in 2018, republicans figuring out, man, the optics don t look good, can we get some girls in here to ask the questions? when the president says, why didn t you ask that question before? it makes me sick to think nothing has changed. and me too has created, you know, an enthusiasm but really the framework of real business and leadership ain t nothing different. i think where we ll see the difference is in november. you have mo
actually going to do that. and i do already sense a split. the 2020 democrats are all on this program already, cornell. do you see this as a good issue for the democrats? i think broadly it is a good issue for the democrats, because of the optics, right? those pictures of kids being torn away from their families at the borders, whether you are a democrat or republican or middle of the road, those images do not settle well particularly with women voters. i think again we re going to have a year of the woman voter. it s going to make 92 pale in comparison. overall the optics don t look good. i m not for getting into the weeds in this and getting into the policy weeds on this. we should take it from the big standpoint of these are bad optics, these are not our values and not get in the weeds on this argument. i think the president would love to make this about i.c.e. he wants to make it about i.c.e. of course he does. what you ve already seen from the president and administration
to know what s going on. the first thing that you hear the most is what the public tends to believe and if you want to go out and ask the public they have no idea what the truth is and they only remember where it came first. who do you think the 20-page memo benefits the most? is this benefiting mueller, though we know the mueller team does not leak, from what we understand. right. one thing you ve got to admit is the optics don t look good, but the fact is there doesn t seem to be anything illegal done. in which regard? the drafting of the memo and i was going to, and everyone is known that president trump is getting the memo and everyone is nuts about it, it s still
who seems to always be trying to curry favor with the trump administration, with the president himself, the optics don t look good. and that s why it s always been problematic that the president continues to weigh in on things like this. to your point, he could have just let the system play itself out with the ig problem has been ongoing and the fact that the president continues to weigh in on twitter and elsewhere denigrating mccabe and other you know, throughout the entire russia investigation. if he would just let the process play out, he wouldn t be in these situations where the politics look bad, especially the relationship between jeff sessions and donald trump is so has broken down so much. it does raise questions about jeff sessions and his own political interests. matt miller, you ve been keeping an eye on this investigation, and andrew mccabe. what do you make of it? it may very well be justified to fire mccabe or discipline him in some way. that s obviously or