administration campaign s assault on the romney campaign was. this is not a president running for re-election who has ethical issues that here we are three weeks in. we ve seen a few of them. these are not going away. they re going to be larger ones, and if they re talking about a product line from the podium these can seem like petty fights or take the family loyalty to the ivanka thing. the mccain thing. he thinks mccain is pushing on russia. they can take it as petty fights. listen to john thune who can count the votes. they have a 52-48 majority in the senate. every time you pick one of these fights and poison the well, it may cost you a vote down the line. it s probably not advisable for that line of discussion or that kfrgss to be going on publicly. at some point the president is going to need senators, every republican senator, because we only have a 52-vote majority in
poison the well already for things to come, and i think that the fact that the white house is moving up their supreme court announcement to tomorrow is a way to make sure that it s not poison because there s there are very few things that rally republicans together as much as a supreme court pick, and one that we expect to be conservative and one that most republicans are going to like in some ways what this is an early lesson of is checks and balances works. this is an executive who made an executive order, and what happened? the judicial grant said, no, no, no. a judge agreed to stay and to stop it temporarily. congress hasn t acted and might not, but they might not have to because of the republicans you talked about from across the board from the senate foreign relations chair to somebody like senator tom cotton who has been pretty supportive of donald
discredit russia and disparage russia and kind of poison the well, if you will, in terms of a future relationship between the u.s. and russia which obviously there is an expectation might warm a little with all the nice things that president putin that president-elect donald trump said. we heard from the foreign ministry talking about the latest report. they said quote, it seems obama s administration is trying to destroy everything within the u.s. and within american society. it went on to say all of this story is the obama administration s revenge against trump. what is interesting, john, people here are not talking about the fact that donald trump did finally acknowledge that he believes russia was behind the hacking. john and christine. clarissa ward, thank you. also breaking overnight. senate approved what could be the first step of repealing obamacare. the budget blueprint pass aed
administration is trying to destroy everything within the u.s. and within american society. they went on to say, all of this story is the obama administration s revenge against trump. there you have it. the kremlin view very much this is deeply politicized. this is a last-ditch attempt to poison the well we knenmeye to russians and the u.s. john and christine. indeed. clarissa ward in moscow. thank you. breaking overnight. the senate move could be the first step at repealing obamacare. the budget blueprint that passed along party lines. 51-48. rand paul voted against it. they approved it after turning away democratic amendments. thanks to medicaid and the children s health insurance program, two programs made
we heard from the russian foreign ministry. they said, quote if somebody wants to transfer the contacts with mr. trump as a businessman and spending time in russia in 2013 and russians, it is up to them. it seems that the obama administration is trying to destroy everything within the u.s. and within the american society. they went on to call it obama administration s revenge against donald trump. the russia kremlin and political apparatus here is key to poison the well if you will between president-elect donald trump and russia ahead of anticipated warming of relationship. it is also cast as a war between what they call the liberal media and donald trump.