that we ve seen the first few months of the president in office, how do you feel about the president so far? i think he s done a great job. if he had done nothing except say i was not elected to be the president of paris, i m elected to be the president of pittsburgh, i would give him an a+ rating. some of the tweets, yeah, i m an old policy wonk, you know? and i wish that that were a little bit, you know, tempered a little bit. but that is not the way he got elected. that is his way of doing it. i know this, frank sinatra didn t become the chairman of the board by doing it other people he did it his way. so president trump did not become the president of the united states and the leader of the free world by doing it the way everybody told him. so rock on, sir. go for it. like you say, i m an old policy wonk. i think he has got some wonderful people around him in his cabinet. i m grateful for the fact that he has put america first. he s going to hold them by the
president was not a legislate your eer, not a policy wonk and he sort of felt like republicans won, republican house, senate, president, it would be open season for in the weeds policy bills. that s not what we ve seen at all. the president may not be detail oriented but he s not going to be rolled by house republicans and certainly not ryan. the old we ll pass them, he ll sign them has proven not to be true. president trump getting high marks on his international trip but there are some spots where he s getting upstaged, you might say. the first shampoo with active pro-v nutrient blends fueling hair 100% stronger that s instantly smoother and tangle free. because strong is beautiful.
to start. they have been talking about this for at least seven weeks. and mark is right, it s a clean slate. they re going to start all over. pre-existing conditions i think is going to be the centerpiece of this, because that is a very important part of people s lives and part of their pocketbook, and they re going to be watching this with a lot of scrutiny because this is an important part of how they look at this bill. and dana bash, you know, mitch mcconnell explained to me the role he plays going forward and the difference between mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. look, up until yesterday afternoon, paul ryan was seen as a policy wonk who couldn t necessarily handle the inner workings of the politics of the house of representatives. maybe that changed yesterday afternoon. no one has ever accused mitch mcconnell of not being able to handle the politics of the senate. he is the ultimate sort of insider, meaning that he knows the inside game and he knows how
were your pre-electoral politics life. you wrote about bankruptcy the middle class, debt, dual income families. you could see in your earlier writing the way you made the transition from academic to advocate, policy wonk and now elected official. that s right. why keep writing books because you re an elected politics? it s still a tool in the toolbox to get out there and fight. the point about all of this is really, books are identifying the same kind of problem that s going on. it s basically, i tell them the long story in this book, how it starts first with what america did right, how we built a great middle class, coming out of the great depression, 1935, and part of it was about regulating industries too big, giving small businesses a chance and forcing antitrust laws, breaking up the banks so there was where we
transition from academic to advocate, policy wonk and now elected official. that s right. why keep writing books because you re an elected politics? it s still a tool in the toolbox to get out there and fight. the point about all of this is really, books are identifying the same kind of problem that s going on. it s basically, i tell them the long story in this book, how it starts first with what america did right, how we built a great middle class, coming out of the great depression, 1935, and part of it was about regulating industries too big, giving small businesses a chance and forcing antitrust laws, breaking up the banks so there was where we separated boring banking from high flying banking. at the same time, progressive taxation and taking that money and putting it into opportunity.