get a much different sense from these intel heads about, one, isis and the strength. yes, it has diminished in size. the territories are miniscule compared to what iraq did cover in syria before. it s still a lethal threat. you see the same with russia and how much it s interfering and plans to. china and iran that it is not in the process of making a nuclear weapon but still is a threat especially with terrorism throughout the region. dana: during that hearing the washington post had a report that said russia had even approached north korea about building a nuclear reactor there for them. of course, russia is sort of involved throughout the world. andpresident certainly has a full plate in february. not just on domestic policy. we ve got the shutdown negotiations under way. we have a presidential state of the union where he supposedly will lay out his vision for the next year or two. that s followed by a budget
who s not related to him jared kushner has all of this power. he ran a herd over the shutdown negotiations, which were a d backal for the president story last friday from nbc news about his clearance process short circuited at best. and now the questions from christie about the firing the mike flynn. i think the question has been what evidence do we have that jared kushner is good at this or at least good enough to be given so many portfolios and so much responsibility there are a couple of cases which he has drawn praise other than from the usual suspects he was credited with accelerating the successful negotiations over the trade agreement with mexico and canada and prison reform bill but a wide variety of other things, the shutdown and russia related matters and whole variety of policy matters, he seems out of his depth and i don t think there s anything out of his past that tells us that perception is inadd rit.
negotiations with the hill and quite optimistic he could do some expansive immigration deal. a lot of skeptics in the white house, and the skeptics were proven correct. i m going to pause you. we have some details on that, because as you point out, kushneral role in the failed shutdown negotiations was important. the new york times reports kushner agreed to take the lead on the talks after the president asked him to find a way to end the stalemate. kushner told colleagues he believed public opinion would shift against speaker pelosi and she would emerge from the debate appears unreasonable and against this without congressional approval instead pushing him towards the short-term deal he agreed to on friday. the times reports since then the plaed been frustrated at everyone around him for not delivering a deal he can accept and wary of his son-in-law s advice on this issue jonathan to pick up on what you were talking about
better job at handling the negotiations, donald trump 35%, speaker pelosi, 47%. there is probably a reason why nancy pelosi keeps emerging on top because behind the scenes she does know how to negotiate. that s right. she has a lot more experience in this arena than the president does, obviously there was a reason why people described her as the most seasoned leader and she is showing that she knows exactly what she is doing as she tries to navigate the shutdown negotiations. and when you talk about fracturing on either side of the aisle, you do have some frustration among democrats, some refusal to negotiate whatsoever while the government is shutdown. but you haven t seen any defactions. pelosi has been able to keep together a die veers democratic congress. and you are starting to see more fracturing on the xwop side for example senator cory guardner saying that he will vote for the pelosi proposal in the senate that would reopen the government without funding the wall.
week because of heroin. there s an opioid crisis that we can fix in large part by getting rid of the heroin. nancy doesn t seem to care. this deadly poison fentanyl also pouring across in record amounts on our southern border. nancy apparently doesn t care. that s why nancy pelosi calls this real life, every day death and destruction a manufactured crisis. that s why she took a nice long luxury vacation to hawaii during christmas. the president remained in the white house urging democrats to come on over and negotiate. they rejected a meeting with the vice president over the weekend and sent low level aides to the shutdown negotiations. that s why dozens of pelosi s colleagues hopped on a private jet, tons of carbon emissions, for an all expense paid tropical vacation to puerto rico. complements of course of k