into 2020 and say, like, oh, you know, we just failed to extend the debt ceiling, we just failed to pass any budget bills i just decided i m not going to do anything for the rest of my term, because democrats are investigating me, and by the way, a judge just said last week that congress can investigate you, they re well within bounds to investigate you. another judge is looking at that today. i do think this is going to set both sides up for an awkward standoff. we saw them play a game of his life is pretty comfortable. chicken, the president and nancy pelosi, a previous round, so we then, he laid on a serta and realized his life was only just sorta comfortable. may be in for another one of those. but i don t know what kind of re-election pitch it is to say, i ve been living a lie. (laughs) i m not going to do my job anymore. the serta icomfort hybrid mattress. you worked in the george h.w. not just sorta comfortable, serta comfortable. bush white house, you worked for the vice pr
so why does it matter to you? because of this. the wall fight. the president demanding more than $8 billion for it, on top of the $8 billion he hopes to get from his national emergency. this is a re-election pitch. president trump basically saying, hey, the reason you should re-elect me is these are great, frankly, rosy predictions for the economy. with fears of another shutdown, what does this mean for the country s bottom line? we have a lot to get to. let s get to geoff bennett at the white house and garrett h k haake on capitol hill. let s talk about the pr pitch on this. in past presidencies, you often see the commander in chief going out, trying to sell his budget plan, even though everybody knows it is not going to go anywhere politically. reporter: right. look, for donald trump, retail politics has never been his thing, right? the view from the white house is that the president is selling his vision for america in tweet after tweet, in speech after speech, and even in this ne
that briefing and said, okay. i ll get this stuff together for you and then the bureaucracy and the people in each of the departments said, wait a minute. we can t do that. that s classified. so the question is, the political imperative, obviously the white house was talking about that al qaeda was on the run. this was in the weeks before the presidential campaign. so there was this idea that this was part of the president s re-election pitch. al qaeda is on the run. we re defeating terrorism. all of a sudden there is what is obvious to most of us at the time a terrorist attack, a preplanned terrorist attack on 9/11 in a very vulnerable out post that indicates, a, an intelligence failure. b, inadequate security, which ultimately we all know now the state department was not appropriately prepared for and then, c, questions about why the obama administration in supporting the arab spring is letting everything spiral so much out of control. bottom line, the release of these document
decide the path we take and the decisions we make. he is running against washington? really? mr. romney loves washington. it s all he knows. here he was 14 years ago when he was first elected. if that doesn t make him an insider, what does? and here s the other fishy part of ryan s re-election pitch. if we act now, we can get this right. we don t want a government-controlled society that is limited and effective. limited government? i think he forgot a few exceptions, like when he requested $20 million in stimulus funds and money from the president s health care law and federal loans for his green card district. paul ryan loves it as long as
what is going on the ground. bill: what is the latest word on another massacre? reports of 240 dead, leland? what can we say? reporter: exactly. it is following a trend every week we re seeing here in syria. you ve to got the assad army going in, shelling, using helicopter gunships against a town. sending in ground troops to kill civilians one by one on the ground. whether this is simply trying to send a message to the rebels or whether an intentional way of trying to ethnically cleanse, hard to tell. bill? bill: leland vittert in jerusalem. thank you for that story, the latest what is happening inside syria. 22 minutes before the hour. ali, what is coming up? alisyn: president obama putting bush-era tax rates on the table as part of his re-election pitch. the house is putting a vote on the just before august break heading president off at the pass. republican congressman louie gohmert is live. bill: shocking discovery.