there are other factors. the government is shutdown. it is looking more and more likely that it will be shut down until the new year. nancy pelosi currently the minority leader but soon set to be the speaker of the house. democrats have no reason to come to the negotiating table until she has that speaker s gavel. both republicans and democrats are acknowledging it. the white house acknowledged that. it s looking like this shutdown will go on for days. that just adds to the turmoil, right? the government can t stay open. the president is criticizing his fed chair even if he says he can fire him. we re seeing foreign policies. and the markets are just uncertain. you talked about both sides digging in their heels and that we may not see action until after the holidays, until pelosi takes over. this is a wall street editorial. they say the phoney shutdown war. trump and the democrats put political symbolism over policy substance. mr. trump scholleding his breath over $3.4 billion in spe
29 different states are either very hostile or hostile to abortion rights. it may be the case that we want see roe v wade overturned entirely. i think justice roberts will be very sensitive to the public view of what the court does. we know, those of us who work in this world of trying to protect women s access to making their own decisions, we know that states are very clever about chipping away at a woman s rights to accessing abortion and that is the point that you make here. i believe they re going to feel absolute permission to do that now that justice kennedy has announced his retirement. that s a lot on the policy substance. i turn to the politics and enforcement. what are you and the organizations you work with and the people you represent, what s your message to democrats who do not ultimately do everything in
you can expect to dominate the agenda with what you re actually trying to do on policy substance. donald trump, in part by choice because he weighs into controversies. in part by accident because he s been overtaken by events, particularly the russia investigation and the shooting, he totally squandered that opportunity. so, phillip, getting things done, getting out ahead of a cycle, a news cycle, a day, a half a day, there must be a list in this west wing of things they want to accomplish. he talked about it three weeks ago. i mean, theoretically, i think it s safe to assume that president trump has a fairly limited policy agenda that he wants to put forward. he certainly did articulate some things during the state of the union address, he talked about immigration in particular, but he s not a policy guy, he s not a policy wonk, he s not somebody who has paid over any course of his presidency paid any attention to policy and that suggests he probably isn t too focused on this, but
the washington post. he happens to be editor-in-chief and co-founder of politico. john, remember a more innocent time in say the last presidency and before that in the modern era where you deliver a state of the union and that would begin a sales campaign, often up front about it and often featuring a road trip to drive home that message. brian, most presidents regarded the state of the union speech as not just a night, but really a month, a week leading up to the speech, two or three weeks after on the road in which you can expect to dominate the agenda with what you re actually trying to do on policy substance. donald trump, in part by choice because he weighs into controversies. in part by accident because he s been overtaken by events, particularly the russia investigation and the shooting, he totally squandered that opportunity. so, phillip, getting things done, getting out ahead of a cycle, a news cycle, a day, a half a day, there must be a list in this west wing of things
brian, most presidents regarded the state of the union speech as not just a night, but really a month, a week leading up to the speech, two or three weeks after on the road, in which you can expect to dominate the agenda with what you re actually trying to do on policy substance. donald trump, in part by choice because he weighs into controversies, in part by 10 because he s been overtaken by events, particularly the russia investigation and the shooting. he totally squandered that opportunity. so, phillip, getting things done, getting out ahead of a cycle, a news cycle, a day, a half a day, there must be a list in this west wing of things they want to accomplish. he talked about it three weeks ago. i mean, theoretically, i think it s safe to assume that president trump has a fairly limited policy agenda that he wants to put forward. he certainly did articulate some things during the state of the union address, he talked about immigration in particular, but he s not a policy guy,