proposes on reducing illegal immigration tonight? one of the things in the health care battle is that the president could not provide any air coverage to republicans in congress. it had 26% support by the time it came to the senate floor. they are a reason to worry whether he will be an asset in moving their agenda forward and looks like he is more of a head wind and i think it also reinforced their conclusion which is spreading in the republican caucus that he will try triangulate and turn on them. was there an advancement of the legislative agenda? it might be the opposite.
it was classic trump airing of the grievances. and he s up tweeting an hour ago. welcome to early start. it is 3:00 a.m. in the east and mid night in phoenix. trump does a 180 in his speech defending his response to the violence in charlottesville. he spent 15 minutes recounting his words with a glaring omission. he initially blamed the clashes on many sides and no mention of the fine people who marched with torches on friday night in charlottesville. here s what i said on saturday. we re closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. this is me speaking. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious
said about joe arpaio. was sheriff joe convicted for doing his job? that s what he should have had a jury. but you know what? i ll make a prediction, i think he s going to be just fine, okay? but i won t do it tonight because i don t want to cause any controversy. he never wants to cause controversy, this president. i think he is trolling his own chief of staff there, general kelly just like with the republican senators by not naming them. joe arpaio refused a judge s order to stop racially profiling. that s what he is being punished for. and not only that, he lost, you know, he lost his election before that happened. and again it goes to the
they are trying to do. i mean, when you go back to the end of the health care fight. fewer than 20% of the country supported the republicans were voting on. did he deliver any effective message on tax reform which is going to be tough. it was all about him. and often it included attacks on his own party which are going to make republicans on the hill even more leery about climbing on to any limbs for the president. there was a lot of news in the 77 minutes. half of it was attacking the media. really attacking the media, going further than saying unfair but saying not good people, bad people. he threatened to shut down the government to get a wall built between the united states and mexico. listen to this moment. the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it but
question building the president is fit to stay in office. here s what clapper told cnn overnight. what did you think of tonight s performance by president trump? well, don, it s hard to know where to start. it is joust so objectionable on so many levels. i toiled in one capacity for every president from john f. kennedy through president obama and i don t when i listened and watched something like this from a president that i found more disturbing. having some understanding of the levers of power that are available to a president, if he chooses to exercise them, i found this downright scary and disturbing. i think bakari is right on the money, though, that this is not a surprise.