the debt ceiling raised, will they pass health care reform? will steve bannon? i m not talking about his you don t have an zblaens because i m agreeing with you that, to date, no one in the administration has executed a legislative strategy. bannon thinks he s trump. if there s a governing coalition that mirrors the electoral coalition, it involves doing things that are more populist. they re not going to raise the debt ceiling with republican votes. i understand but does anybody in this studio, do you guys understand, richard haas? i tried to stay out of this. you re coming in. donald trump, donald trump is the one that makes these sell. it s not the jared kushner wing of the party. it s not the gary cohn ring of the party, the reince priebus wing of the party and it sure as
hell isn t the steve bannon wing of the party, even though he tells everyone it is. it starts and ends with donald trump. agreed. problem is that his political philosophy, such as it is, doesn t match up with congress. the problem in making the sell is if you take democrats and republicans it s not clear what his governing coalition s one thing that will result from t s this, they may not get certain wins. foreign policy is a place he doesn t need congress so much. forget steve bannon. he hasn t figured out the governing philosophy and mechanism for this administration. pretty simple. 175 republicans and 40 to 45 democrats. no issue on which they re currently positioned to do that. infrastructure, we could do that even there, they re not. democrats think about infrastructure as spending. republicans think about it as tax credits. they re totally different things under the same label.
there. i m an optimist about that. when you talk about confusion coming out of new york, what do you mean? is it a difference of kind of vision? there s obviously, you know, steve bannon wing, i guess you could say, there s reince priebus as chief of staff. there s can you define the sort of, the various arms here or kind of perspectives? well, i mean, i m an old school guy, aeshds. i think, you know, your chief of staff has to be the one or whatever title you want to give them, needs to be the one making decisions. they need to be held accountable for those decisions, but you need someone who can clearly make a decision. if you make those decisions via committee, i don t care how small it is, it just adds to the difficulty. and i think they re going to get through this. remember, this is all kind of new. there s a lot of folks that don t have any experience in what this might look like. and that s no fault to theirs. as a matter of fact, in many ways it s a plus coming into wash
command coming out of new york. hopefully they ll get that settled pretty soon. i think they re going to need to do it, because as this clock ticks, all of these decisions become more important and you have to make them sooner, with a little more authority and a little more forward thinking to make sure that they don t bump into anything in the future. i think they re going to get there. i m an optimist about that. when you talk about confusion coming out of new york, what do you mean? is it a difference of kind of vision? there s obviously, you know, steve bannon wing, there s reince priebus, as chief of staff. there s can you define the sort of, the various arms here or kind of perspectives? well, i mean, i m an old school guy, aeshds. i think, you know, your chief of staff has to be the one or whatever title you want to give them, needs to be the one making decisions. they need to be held accountable for those decisions, but you need someone who can clearly make a decision. if
coming into this country at least for a specified period of time, it still stands on the website. it has not been formally updated or addressed by the campaign, what he said in the october 9th debate was that he calls it extreme vetting. you know, just respond to the disagreement between our other two panelists on that point, because it is why some of these people are protesting. yes. first of all, a couple of facts. there is no evidence that any of the protesters were paid and no evidence of direct incitement by the media. when we re looking at this, we should start with an agreement on what the reality is. as for donald trump s reaction, we can see the two sort of sides of the trump team battling here in these two tweets. you have one that wants to spread conspiracy theories and push back against any sort of criticism. that s the steve bannon wing. then you have the kellyanne conway, reince priebus wing that wants to be more open and inclusive. donald trump will have to do