on steel and aluminum. speaker ryan thinks it could start a trade war. this is a significant policy split, maybe the most significant policy split to date between the republican house speaker and the republican president. let s talk about that. joining me now, ron brownstein, senior editor at the atlantic. also co-chair of women vote trump amy cramer and patty solis doyle. it is interesting, house speaker paul ryan, the constitution says if the speaker wants to stop the president from issuing tariffs, congress has the right to do it. the key question, how hard will he fight on this? look, it is striking that this is where he has drawn the line on president trump, you know, with all of the other areas of disagreement particularly around race and immigration but he s chosen a place he s confident he has the wall street editorial page behind him, the commerce department behind him. it is a real flsplit, it is a marker the first time in the history of a republican primary
initially, but also the way in which it seemed to short circuit the policy process and underscored the endless volatility that is involved in this administration. i just had real quick to patti s point, though, there is a division here. there is a division in the republican coalition over this. and that creates an opportunity for democrats who have really been paralyzed in trying to seize it. if you look at the landscape, broadly speaking, what donald trump is doing is strengthening the republican party in blue collar, nonurban america where you re most likely to find manufacturing and most resicepte to this. their best opportunity in 2018 are to beat the last remaining republicans in that terrain and yet they are finding it impossible to do what paul ryan has done and say this kind of trade protectionism aimed at a declining sliver of employment is a threat to the overall economy and particularly to those portions of the economy depending on global markets. you won t see it from the
they can handle things a little bit differently, where questions may not be on rob porter anymore, but they are on, you know, the russia investigation, on the news that mueller s investigation brought out on friday, as well as just this morning, you know, so there is a lot of open questions for the white house to handle and we ll see if they can handle that in any better way than they did last week. every time one of you speaks, you bring up a new issue, haven t had a chance to discuss. the russia investigation now, the indictments last week, the 13 indictments today, the new charges that we re finding today and patty solis doyle, the new charges for the president, this is all obama s fault according to president trump. president obama let this happen during the last year of his administration. there are plenty of supporters from hillary clinton s campaign who wasn t happy about the way president obama handled it either. the idea that donald trump
in the lobby of trump tower 12 years ago, never happened, who would do this in a public space with live security? to the best as i can tell he s talking about rachel crooks, who says back in 2006 there was an incident, her article is in the washington post this morning as the president noted. she has been on the radar for some time. here now to discuss, cnn political analyst matt visor, doug high and patty solis doyle. let s just deal with the newest thing, doug, there were a lot of questions, have been a lot of questions for a long time about the president s dealings with women during the campaign, certainly. during the me too movement, still very much going on certainly. last week during the rob porter scandal certainly. and now the president chooses really for the first time to address any part of this by singling out one accuser. what do you make of it? first, john, i would say thanks for starting with me on such a great topic. look, what we have if you go
and it is all about him. it is all about his election. all about his campaign. it is really kind of sad. patty solis doyle, doug high, not the discussion i thought we would have heading into today for sure, but interesting nonetheless, thanks, guys. parkland students soon on their way to the florida state capital and they have a lot to say to lawmakers about gun control.