military by not funding it properly. it was depleted. everything was old and tired, and i came in and i had to fix it. so david, i mean the president likes to really tout how much he is about the military so then when things like today happen does it work against him? well, i think there s two parts to leadership and the president, you could argue if you believe in his policies and in terms of his funding of the health and he s upped the funding for the military and he s received a lot of support from within the military for sort of unleashing this idea, if i give you a mission just win and i m in the going to put constraints on you, there s a policy aspect to being a leader, but there s also a rhetorical aspect to being a leader. how you talk and what you say is just as important as what you do and when you do it, and i think that the president, while there are disagreements that we can have on policy, may have gotten
performer. political performer. once he got into the white house, he shunned the performance aspect to drill down to the policy and get into the policy aspect. he was an excellent president from the standpoint of leadership and family man. he didn t do the performance. donald trump always has the performance and he also has his cast of characters do the performance just like him. are we getting to a point now where the american people are going to expect a reality show? that this performtive becomes a new normal? i hope not. i think american consumers are conditioned to expect a reality show and something that is made and produced for television. i would also say that there are a lot of aspects of this plot for lack of a better word that are negative for the president. right? as a part of this reality show, you have what s going on on the border. i think that americans are
president donald trump has decided to leave this iran nuclear deal i mean we ve really seen the europeans for the fust time openly and quite clearly taking a completely opposing view and acting upon it they met with iran s foreign minister zarif in brussels last night and clearly there s an intention here to break away on the policy aspect still they know. they need to make a work she s picking up some degree we re going to left off when he talked about the german foreign policy being emancipated from the united states during his term let s return now to that one is tied to beit is taking place in german parliament right now chancellor merkel is still addressing the gathering at the parliament right now let s listen in with health this is what i m saying to our first day of parliament member because it s his birthday today and. we need access for our citizens to all administratively offers and of course
these republican members do seem more willing to split with the president, whether it s on symbolism like jeff flake or health care. we have bipartisan health care meetings above and beyond what the white house wants. that s what s key. the policy aspect. every couple of weeks, they check in with republicans and see what the breaking point would be. they point to the idea of if the agenda starts to fall apart, that is thing link that s keeping this marriage of sorts, arranged marriage together. they re seeing their agenda derailed at this point and wanting to get through. there are different kinds of republicans in the trump era. you have those republicans like jeff flake. i have talked to republicans in states that trump won or did well. they are actually going to plan on running with the president, saying the president needs more allies in congress, not less. keeping an eye on these tensions. i think they re certainly there but not at the breaking point with all of them.
so fluid. the situation is changing by the minute. i do think that republicans internally have narrowed some of the gap, gaps that they have had on the policy aspect. it really hasn t been as much of a political tarnish to this. i think people talk about the house freedom caucus in the vein of them being rabble-rousers, sometimes being obstructionists, but there were serious policy disagreements on this. and i think with health care reform some of the things about pre-existing conditions, the way republicans want to address them on the conservative wing, those conditions seem to have been met in this latest amendment that kristin was just discussing. some of the moderates you re going to have to keep an eye on because they want to make sure those types of consumers aren t left out in the cold. they don t want bad press to hit them in their districts, so that s something to keep an eye on. heather: and what are some of the principles in the meadows amendment that you see as promising?