difference. building on this, right, in this article, in the times the former nixon and reagan at adviser, pat buchanan, who ran himself, the chickens have come home to roost putting the party back together again will be very hard after this nomination. i think the party s going to shift against trade and interventionism and become nationalist and tribal and more about protecting the border. is he right? pat buchanan s a good analyst. i think that there is that danger that the republican party will become more of a native party. but if it does so, there s a threat that it could become a minority party. you know, the dream, reagan s dream to build a republican party into a majority party. right. if you get caught up in side issues, it s really hard, and with giving the changing demographics of the country, hard to put together a majority
obama i was surprised and pleased by his performance yesterday at the pentagon. i thought it was focused and he actually was talking about military operations instead of side issues. well he clearly was sensitive to the criticism often value office address. he specifically used the word intensification of the bombing program and talked about the progress in iraq which has been considerable, a little bit of progress in syria. he also said to the leaders of isis you are next. right. designee sounded like francois hollande and sounded like bush. more focused on the targeting, as you say waives good thing. sending secretary of defense ash carter over to meeting and put pressure on our partners because our partners are not partnering. none has provided any ground forces. they ve taken the air force out. facilities more obsessed on what s going on in yemen sway side show. didn t the saudis make an announcement yesterday?
don t voters deserve the details? kate, i just reject the premise of the question, because if you look at donald trump last night, he spoke for half an hour about the issues. during the debate, he wanted to talk about the issues. it was megyn kelly who brought up side issues. on the immigration issue, he talks about the wall. when you ask how are you going to get them to pay, he says, trust me. that s a last night on fox news he said, look, in trade negotiations, if i have to, will slap a tariff on mexico. he has been very tough on mex o mexico. look what china did a couple days ago. they devalued their currency which hurts our manufacturers and allows china to dump in cheap goods. he is very specific. do we know what he would do with the iranian agreement? do we know what he would do in syria? what s his policy in syria? absolutely. the israelis and the palestinians if i may i have heard more detail from
donald trump not just talking about him, not just dominating the conversation but he s dominating the polls as well. i think he obviously needs to be careleful though not to let all these side issues come it that him and what he s talking about. as you ve been saying his agenda on jobs is something that people respond to. everyday he spends talking about univision is a day he s not talking about jobs and economy, something as a billionaire businessman he knows a lot about. at the end of the day this whole fight with univision is something that media leaks are saying he s on defense, in trouble here. i think voters may hear something much different. a, they see him taking on media elites number one. two, he s speaking out straight talk on illegal immigration, something voters wanted to hear about. he doubled down on. that to your point of him taking on nbc, he was loud about their
relationship between the administration and the republican congress is becoming. the ill will quickly spreading over into middle east relations in ways seldom seen. secretary of state john kerry appearing before a senate committee to talk about the president s request for an authorization of use of military force against isis. but much of the dialogue was about side issues. the regional checkerboard the strategy and of course iran. and when kerry was asked about that open letter to iran signed by 47 republicans, he issued a blistering critique of it. claiming the letter told allies that anyone seeking agreement with the united states would have to negotiate with 535 members of congress. listen. in my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. during my 29 years here in the senate i never heard of nor even heard of it being proposed