allies we need to know how to tap into that. or we re asking the wrong way. even know though we know there are people out there who want to, we re just going about it wrong. the first thing you say here is just ask a favor. and that s a really great technique. especially if you don t know someone well and they might not have a particular reason to help you personally, if you preface with what you want by saying, hey, if you want to do me a favor, and then you have to wait for them to say yes, and then you ask for what you want, and that s called precommitment and almost doubles the rate of helping. it s not a technique you really want to use but people you have a relationship with like a colleague, but if you need help from a stranger or random person, asking for help is very
shoed political operator, he can read the polls as well as anybody, he knows there are a lot of traditionally republican leaning voters who may like some of the economic policies that have been pursued over the last 20 months but who are very uneasy about the president ecommitment to the rule of law, very uneasy about kind of all the windows breaking and norm shattering that s going on and i think he correctly understands that firing sessions between now and november would really underscore the signal that the president does not believe he could face any constraints and indirectly would highlight the reluctance and the refusal of the republican congress to impose any meaningful constraints on him. i disagree with every word rachel said there, respectfully. the republican senators air bunch of stooges who will do whatever trump wants. they will confirm whatever he wants, and if he fires jeff sessions, they will all i mean fires mueller, the new attorney general, they will all say, o
recommitment from the intelligence officials to ensure that they are taking every step necessary that we have integrity at the ballot box at the direction of this president. just because they announced it today doesn t mean they haven t been working on it for months. today they said repeatedly his leadership and his support and gave him credit for that and his direction. five months ago dan coats was very clear. we ll go through each of the names. they were clear that they had not been directed by this president to take on russian meddling. that was five months ago. he had not directed them to do that. that has changed in just the past five months. i don t know when the conversation may or may not have occurred with his intelligence community members. what i do think is they don t need a direction from the president specifically to ensure that we have integrity at the ballot box. this is something they are tasked with and something they need to make sure so we have a free and fair
knowing mr. trump s messaging, mr. trump s very bitter language about nato. but mr. stoltenberg s message is nato s better off with nato all hanging together, all 29 countries, than not and he wants to come out of this summit with cohesion and a recommitment to the nearly 70-year-old alliance that s looked at american and european security since shortly after world war ii. barbara starr, thank you for that. telling to hear from him this morning right after that breakfast. let me bring back my guests. we are going to hear from the president and angela merkel in just under a minute. this is a president that says nato is obsolete. in the face of that, why does the united states need nato? well, because nato s important to our security. i mean it was mentioned, article 7 has been invoked once in 9/11. in addition, 28 military bases in the united states are hosted
try all of my bold creations pouches! ed: imagine this pay their fair share ahead of the nato summit this week in brussels. is the president s pressure actually working though? here to break it down former treasury attache sounds famous. morgan or telling gas. we lo having herr on because she actually brings fax to the table. good morning. good morning. ed: 2006 long before the president came to office, these nato members set a target of spending 2% of g.d.p. on defense and recommitment committed that in 2014 as well. you can see. as you go through it we will talk about these countries from the u.s., through