lawless and corrupt president, but we can t see impeachment as a panacea. we need to make the policy progress despite the obstructionism of mitch mcconnell in the senate. we passed great legislation to lower prescription drug prices, we re trying to guarantee preexisting coverage condition, we re trying to abolish gerrymandering and guarantee the right to vote. with he want to do all of that stuff at the same time we re holding the president responsible. none of that is going to go through the senate. mitch mcconnell has made it clear it s massive resistance he s doing now. yeah. whether it s an impeachment or whether it s healthcare legislation, mitch mcconnell won t let even a democratic president put a judge on the supreme court, justice on the supreme court. none of those bills are going to go through. given that and given the fact that it s a highly unlikely that very many heroes exist in the republican caucus who are going to do what justin amash has done and turn on this p
booming. but where are we in terms of the trump agenda? he s trying to negotiate a trade deal with china, congress on the sidelines for that. he needs congress to pass his new replacement for nafta. can he get that done this year? forget about this. this was a priority in the first two years of the trump administration. we re not going to replace obamacare with nancy pelosi as speaker of the house. infrastructure. one applause line tonight most likely. build the wall. that is the big divide here in washington right now, and the president sometimes talks about paid family leave. republicans get nervous about that. here we are in the big divide. he ll say let s be bipartisan, let s be unified. listen to the top two leaders in the senate. america is divided. the state of the trump economy failing america s middle class. the state of trump health care, failing american families. the state of the trump administration, chaos. the story of the last two years has been one of immense policy
women who wear uniforms, they re making so much money and got so much in the bank they don t even know what they re paycheck is. well, it s more of a matter of fact the president of the united states doesn t care whether or not his lies or lack of facts are going over well with the troops or anybody else. sadly, one of the ways in which president trump is similar to other presidents is that he doesn t seem to have a problem lying to the troops or using them as convenient partisan and political pawns. this president is doing it in a particularly self-obsessed and trumpian way. when i talk to veteran advoca advocateadvocate e s, what they care about more is the lack of substantive policy
i m not sure how he thinks he s going to get the goal of getting them to spend more money by picking on merkel and making it harder for her to go to the legislature and get that money. th which raises the question, does the president want the goal, the policy progress, or does he just want the fight? we ll come back to this on trade in a few minutes. but the president has a point. the nato allies have committed to spend more. this goes back several presidencies. under obama, it started to go up. that s the percentage of the gdp of these countries spent on the military. united states is 3.57. all these other countries well blow 2%. their commitment to nato is 2%. the president is trying to get them there. the question is, do you do it quietly, privately, or when he s so unpopular in europe, if you do it publicly, don t you make it harder for merkel, macron, may, and others to go to their legislatures, their parliaments and say, need the money? two things on this. the first one is
gets raves from the right. scott pruitt is himself unraveling a whole lot of regulations that obama s epa implemented. he is basically just taking a knife and whacking things from the epa that were implemented during the eight years of obama and he has become outside of trump the single biggest target. i hope scott pruitt hangs in. bottom line. we know where russia is. we have seen letters from conservatives to the white house and newspapers. is that it? is the policy progress in the president s view. from the president s standpoint implementing the agenda does that outweight what normally effects this president, bad news, bad headlines? you see this guy is doing