security. 80% of americans live paycheck to paycheck. what about border control? what about everyone at the airports? where more dangerous people come through airports. you re laughing. it s absolutely right. i think what s amazing about this moment is and for everyone watching the show, it s not usually like this. and we re actually in this aberration. usually you would have contentious policy fights separate from this process. we don t have to do this over a government shutdown. that s become the normal course of business in washington. it s never what anyone envisioned as a way to handle these disputes. it just goes on and on. i can t believe it. i want to skip over what nancy pelosi accomplished but even making a round of calls to some of the president s allies outside the white house today, they were surprised he capitulated on the state of the union address. i want to talk to you about what was happening in democratic circles. some people were critical of her. they say sh
mark the death of a former president. we will be spending three days of mourning and three days of celebrating a really great man s life. president trump just got back to washington, facing a government shutdown and a feud with the chairman of the federal reserve. and when it comes to policy fights, the president says his gut tells him more than anybody s brain. that s where the truth comes from, ladies and gentlemen. the gut. do a gut check of our own. how often is his gut actually right? it is sunday, december the 2nd, we are just days away from michael cohen s sentencing. i m sad you re going to prison, michael. you were like a son to me. then why d you make me do so much illegal stuff? because you were like a son to me. up with me this hour, mara gay, a member of the editorial board at the new york times, noah rothman is at commentary magazine, and dan goldman is a former assistant u.s. attorney
this is now a time where they hope they can reverse that. and i really do think that this could be a galvanizing moment for them going into the mid-term elections, when they ve just come off a victory with nominating, confirming a supreme court justice that they re very happy with. and that could give them some momentum going into november. and sun-min, another aspect of this is coordination between the white house and republicans on the hill. it hasn t always been smooth as glass. we have seen the white house cut off any number of attempts by mcconnell, by speaker ryan at legislation. they haven t always been coordinated. they haven t always agreed. but this appears to be one area where the legislative affairs office and the white house and the folks who do legislation on the hill are likely to be coordinated. exactly. i mean, this is the one issue. i mean, you have these policy fights over trade and clashes over style and the president s
momentum going into november. and seung min, another aspect of this is coordination between the white house and republicans on the hill. it hasn t always been smooth as glass. we have seen the white house cut off any number of attempts by mcconnell, by speaker ryan at legislation. they haven t always been coordinated. they haven t always agreed. but this appears to be one area where the legislative affairs office and the white house and the folks who do legislation on the hill are likely to be coordinated. exactly. i mean, this is the one issue. i mean, you have these policy fights over trade and clashes over style and the president s style of governing, but when it comes to judicial nominations, and not just supreme court nominees, but all these lower court nominees and lower court judges that don t get a lot of attention, but is important to that conservative base, that is where mitch mcconnell and his ranks have been working hand and
and sun-min, another aspect of this is coordination between the white house and republicans on the hill. it hasn t always been smooth as glass. we have seen the white house cut off any number of attempts by mcconnell, by speaker ryan at legislation. they haven t always been coordinated. they haven t always agreed. but this appears to be one area where the legislative affairs office and the white house and the folks who do legislation on the hill are likely to be coordinated. exactly. i mean, this is the one issue. i mean, you have these policy fights over trade and clashes over style and the president s style of governing, but when it comes to judicial nominations, and not just supreme court nominee, but all these lower court nominees and lower court judges that don t get a lot of attention, but is important to that conservative base, that is where mitch mcconnell and his ranks have been working hand and glove with the white house in coordinating nominees,