Democrats understand particularly compared to Bernie Sanders. Sanders has a thing. You are being screwed and the game is rigged. She went for every constitiency in the party and showing how much it reloys on identity politics and hispanics and africanamerican and that is why it is a pudding without a theme and no enthusiasm. And in the end democrats have to worry about. In the day after New Hampshire, there had been bad days and this is a good one . It is more than likely shoe sowed up the nomination and she has the establishment candidate and a political and dc candidate at a time that the country and craving anything but those things. Shes getting the. Com, and texting down pat for dollars. Bernie sanderses did a better job in that department . Another reason why it was a missed opportunity for Bernie Sanders to get up and say to his supporte supporters, you need to turn out and this is it a rev lougz and he would have raised dollars if he spoke. You heard a lot of breaking down the
Election. When it comes to the government hes forming, the picture emerging is of a traditional conservative one. He picked Jeff Sessions to be attorney general, former Goldman Sachs banker, steve mnuchin, to be treasury secretary, retired general James Mad Dog Mattis to run the defense department. Avowed obamacare critic, tom price, to head the health and Human Services administration, retired general john kelly to head the department of homeland security. Dr. Ben carson to lead the department of housing and urban development. School voucher proponent, betsy devoss to head the education department. Billionaire wilbur ross to head commerce. Elaine chao at transportation department. And just today, he announced his pick for labor secretary. Former fast food executor, andy pussner. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will be at the united nations. His choice to head the epa is someone who has sued the agency, is suing it, scott pruitt. Another retired general, mike flynn, will be his Nat
Democrats are accusing devin nunes of trying to protect the president even as some key former trump advisers offered to be questioned about their russian ties. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news this hour. President trump says hes going back and let obamacare explode after his efforts to replace and repeal it were blocked by members of his own Republican Party. Mr. Trump says republicans were very close to pass the Health Care Legislation in the house trying to put the best face possible on a huge and stinging political defeat. The House Speaker ryan pulled the bill and canceled the scheduled vote at the last minute after failing to win conservative votes despite the campaign led by the president. Chalking it up as growing pains for a party thats not used to controlling the congress and the white house. Tonight there are very serious questions abou
Chris, but evening to you. Like being back out on the campaign trail. A raucous crowd here at boeing. You can hear them flying over my head right here. A big rally in Melbourne Florida tomorrow. A lot of work to do as he launches an urgent search to find a new National Security advisor. President trump left charleston heading for maralago where he will spend part of the weekend interviewing candidates. The president has already identified acting advisor Keith Kellogg and general david betrays as possible replacements. Fox news has learned the president is also hiring former nsa chief general Keith Alexander and Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster as well as stephen hadley, the National Security advisor in the last bush administration. The president had hoped to have Robert Harward on today, but harward turned the drop down citing family reasons. Jobs were front and center on the president s agenda today, appearing free for a friendly crowd 5,000 strong at boeing 787 Dreamliner Assembly p
January 19th to keep the fisa program. Key components, but no doubt setting up major fights for january. Daca, obviously the program that President Trump said he would wind down by the end of march, that has been punted to january as well. You have a disaster supplemental bill, basically funding her hurricaneravaged texas and florida and puerto rico. The senate put that aside saying they did not have the votes for it this time around and that will have to be addressed in january as well. So republicans and democrats agreeing not to shut down the government, a low bar, but thats progress on some level but it sets up major fights in january. For now, though, everybody is going home to celebrate the holidays with their families. Christine and dave . Thank you. As phil reported, still no deal on daca. Just before the vote on the shortterm spending bill dozens of the hispanic caucus marches for a no vote. Earlier this week jeff run jeff flake said he has a commitment from Majority Leader Mi