pace paback. she s a prop. you think that s how he s feeling? i think he believes the attention should be on him. the president backed his opponent luther strange who also lost. he was 0 for 2 there. how do you think he s taking it? he pivoted right back to how he really wanted luther strange and he said he was right because he said that moore couldn t win and he s moved on. so you think it actually reinforces many things for him? that s the way he s playing it. it shows that shows he s right. the fact that moore lost is getting kind of lost on the cutting room floor. what matters is that he said that moore couldn t win, that strange of the person to back and that s how he s playing it.
and the fact that moore actually lost and that he actually backed moore, who could remember that? in some sense he also embraced doug jones, who was the democrat who won. they both seemed to have a positive take on the conversation that they shared. do you consider that or should it be considered like an olive branch to the democrats how he reacted to the jones victory? i don t think i would call it a very long olive branch. sure, but i think that was part of getting, you know, moving on past moore, moving on past this tainted candidate, moving on past allegations of sexual harassment, which is something that trump doesn t want to be anywhere close to. now, the president has pulled no punches with member of his own party as we all know, but now republicans are in a position to pass the tax bill this week. that would be a huge victory for the president, for the party. do you see this changing the president s relationship with