he s doing that so that he can inoculate himself from any failures or any criticism and so republicans, they re single seekers of re-election, right? most people that are elected, that s their motivation. they re looking at this thing going he threw jeff sessions, who was the first elected republican of significance to support him under the bus terribly, going after him in a very disrespectful way. even democrats were coming to the defense of jeff sessions. paul, does it come with risks for the republicans. first, i love republican on republican violence. i wanted to give you a thrill tonight. i didn t want to interrupt. the truth is, they re damned if they do and damned if they don t. the president s approval will drive the midterms, it will. if he stays at 33, the republicans are in a lot of trouble. if he goes up to 63, the democrats are in a lot of trouble. and you can break with him or not. i don t think voters are going to care, because they do all vote with him 90%, 95%
this is timeless wisdom, people do know this. we don t want to analyze whether it s a phone call or personal. but it s a banner. we re going to have to save the breaking news banner when the guy tells the truth. i would disagree that it s not a big deal. i ve been talking about the fact that trump s character deficit is a problem, because when you are given this level of responsibility like the presidency, your credibility, your word, your character matters. because to what paul said, when it comes to bigger things, how do we know whether you re telling the truth or not. this is something that s almost pathological with donald trump, that he has to feel praised all the time to the point where he ll make things up to reinforce this idea that he s the greatest. i mean he literally made up these calls between the mexican president and the boy scouts, both of them, the common denominator is that they were telling him how great he is. this is an issue that i think has caused a lot of the
santorum and paul begalla. you hear the president there saying democrats are obstructionists. let s look at some of the republicans who are a no on this bill, who are opposed to it at this point. dean heller, rand paul, ted cruz, mike lee and johnson. there are a number of republicans on the fence. do you see a vote happening this week? and if it doesn t, what happens? well, i don t know. they ll vote it this week if they have the votes. if not, they ll put it off. does it die if they put it off? no. i mean, the real deadline is the end of july. when they go into the august break. any good leader in the united states senate, democrat or republican, you re trying to push against a recess to try to get consensus. this is just a process of when people feel that they have to make a deal. and what mitch mcconnell is trying to do is raise the
supposed to. the reason is that we put in reforms and waivers for cost cutting to be made efficiently. if you re reducing the amount of money to states, if the federal contribution is being reduced. great question. something paul begalla worked on, very proud of, i m sure, which is welfare reform. a lot of folks on the left, it was a drat dramatic cut on wellfare. we froze it. redesigned the system to make it more efficient, spent less money. i m out of time.
paul, quick, final word to you. it s one thing to move from welfare to work, medicaid to work. you re going to kick someone out of their nursing home. she can t go get a job. she has alzheimer s. a little girl with asthma needs that medicaid. it s not the same and rick santorum knows it. it s a cut to medicaid. call your senator. the american people can stop it. paul begalla, rick santorum, thank you. challenges at home and challenges abroad, the battle to liberate mosul from the grip of isis is at a turning point. dramatic new drone footage of iraqi civilians fleeing that city. remember it s not just war time but what will happen in a time of peace. live report from iraq, next.