his hopes for re-election. it felt all too familiar. he had experienced this same premonition of an election slipping away when he had been attorney general in the final year of george h.w. bush s presidency. barr scheduled a meeting with trump in the oval office just two of them alone. he wanted a truly private conversation. i feel you are going to lose the election barr said. i feel you are actually losing touch with your own base. barr explained that in his travels around the country he talked to a lot of people in law enforcement and other solid trump supporters who were uncomfortable with the president s focus on skewing his conceived enemies rather than plans to navigate through the pandemic. the quote goes on, the only reason you won them last time mr. president is because of the grab them by the p comment.
welcome back. moments ago the white house weighing in on the removal of confederate statues in charlottesville today saying, quote, as president biden has said and the quote goes on there s a difference between reminders and remembrances of history. the president believes that monuments to confederate leaders belong in museums, not public places, and welcomed the removal of statues today . if this weekend s cpac event is any indication, trump s romance with the republican party is far from over. the former president is doing just about anything these days to grab headlines and motivate his base, even launching lawsuits against big tech that legal experts have called frivolous and destined to fail. that s where we start with former congresswoman donna edwards and msnbc political analyst susan del percio. i want to start first, ladies,
seems to be more devastating. general kelly has denied ever saying that he called the president, quote, an idiot. however it s worth looking at what woodward writes. kelly is quoted saying he s an idiot so general kelly denies that but the quote goes on, it s pointless to convince him of anything, meaning president trump, he s gone off the rails, we re in crazytown. general kelly doesn t deny anything else in the quote and there are other quotes woodward has from him saying the president s unhinged, that there are dangerous impulses, erratic. again, general kelly has not come out to say those. and, frankly, saying someone is unhinged, especially the president of the united states, i think is of a great deal more concern than someone maybe throwing and saying oh, someone s an idiot, unhinged,
republicans control the senate. republicans control the house. and what will be the first order of business for the new republican majority? to pass a budget that never balances. to pass a budget that will add $9.7 trillion of new debt over ten years. this is a facsimile of his chart. is that really, he asked, what we campaigned on? is that really what we campaigned on? the quote goes on. why would we vote on a budget that adds $9.7 trillion to the debt? because we re in a hurry. we can t be bothered. it s just numbers. i was told again and again, swallow it. take it. they re just numbers. don t worry. it s not really a budget. and yet the legislation says it s a budget! quote, so this is what republicans are for. this is the blueprint that the republican party says they are for. $10 trillion worth of new debt. i m not for it, said that honest man.
republicans won the white house, control the senate, control the house. and a what will be the first order of business for the new republican majority? to pass a budget that never balances. to pass a budget that will add $9.7 trillion of new debt over ten years. this is a facsimile of his chart. is that really, he asked, what we campaigned on? is that really what we campaigned on? the quote goes on. why would we vote on a budget that adds $9.7 trillion to the debt? because we re in a hurry. we can t be bothered. it s just numbers. i was told again and again, swallow it, take it, they re just numbers, don t worry, it s not really a budget. and yet the legislation says it s a budget. quote, so this is what republicans are for. this is the blueprint that the republican party says they re for. $10 trillion worth of new debt. i m not for it, said that honest man.