here in coming days. matt, the president said in a press conference yesterday he made some remarks today about the idea that the assistance will be forthcoming. but has proved more complicated than it seemed. certainly in recent years with sandy the assistance took three months to be approved by congress because it got political. we are in a moment where everything is political. and where the passage of a budget by the end of september to avoid or budget resolution to avoid the shutdown of the government is in question. september is a very busy month for congress between keeping the government open and raising the debt keeling o ceiling. that said there seems to be a lot of bipartisan confidence that there will be an aid package for texas and louisiana and will happen quickly. whether we like it or not it s a little more politicly perilous to be sending aid to new jersey and new york city and connecticut after sandy democrat dominated areas.
bellicose. the reality of the matter is we are going to be force intoed defensive military measures hopefully with enhanced investment in missile defense. and also an attempt to provide whatever economic leverage and cyberwarfare, and low level nonwar measures to try and contain the north koreans. but we re going to have to learn to live to the peril to the american people. within a decade the north koreans will have a usable icbm that can threaten us. congressman, this is tricky because we know less about north korea than we know about other places who are adverses. we have american troops in south korea and japan with whom we have mutual defense treaties. and we have american troops elsewhere in the region. this goal that general mccaffrey talks about of north korea is to unify the korean peninsula isn t happening on anybody s watch. so what politicly and
country that the other thing that separates him do the rules apply to him that applied politicly to other presidents. here the other thing about donald trump. he has been about one thing. think about barack obama. when barack obama was running in 2008 his goal was to expand the playing field. go in the republican states was to get his broad a mandate as possible to take that mandate, get legislative momentum and enact the agenda. donald trump has never tried to go beyond his base. the entire theory to the extent there is a theory is just i ve got my people. i ve got enemy all together. this is enough literally just enough 70,000 votes across three states to get into the white house. and my sole goal is not to expand that it s just not to lose a single one. if i don t lose a single one i m going to have my party with me because the party says those are my voters i m getting re-elected by the same tiny microscopic razor thin margin. keemle polarization alive and if you keep that aliver a
the same disconnect you remember talking. this was his best state in country that the other thing that separates him do the rules apply to him that applied politicly to other presidents. here the other thing about donald trump. he has been about one thing. think about barack obama. when barack obama was running in 2008 his goal was to expand the playing field. go in the republican states was to get his broad a mandate as possible to take that mandate, get legislative momentum and enact the agenda. donald trump has never tried to go beyond his base. the entire theory to the extent there is a theory is just i ve got my people. i ve got enemy all together. this is enough literally just enough 70,000 votes across three states to get into the white house. and my sole goal is not to expand that it s just not to lose a single one. if i don t lose a single one i m going to have my party with me because the party says those are my voters i m getting re-elected by the same tiny microscopic raz
very declaratively. i would make the argument he is at his natural space when talking about blue collar jobs. he is very authentic. and you have to give him credit for that because that s one of the reasons he won. i would make the argument he is the blue collar billionaire. to some reason the person living paycheck to paycheck in west virginia connects that with that guy. there is something to be said about that. say whatever you want about donald trump in terms of being over the top or good stuff or bad stuff. the reality is there is a certain segment people frankly look like me that look at him says you know what that s my guy. he is fighting for me. that goes back to the favorite kornacki sound bite of tonight, he s our con man. steve, what were his numbers in west virginia? this is the same disconnect you were talking about. this was his best state in country that the other thing that separates him do the rules apply to him that applied politicly to other presidents.