President politically and economically. Surging Approval Ratings, a surging stock market a plummetting Unemployment Rate. This is the Fourth Quarter of Barack Obamas presidency. President obama will unveil his new tax plan. We have to play the game. Middle class tax relief and higher taxes on the president. The president has been very aggressive lately very bold. Raising taxes on people who are successful. Youre already seeing republicans start to object. Its not going to make people who are struggling more successful. Is it a political legacy . Mitt romney may be back and hes got a new platform to prove it. Very problematic for mitt romney who has others to run a campaign on poverty. He choked like a dog. We cannot allow that to happen again. Who in their right mind would listen to someone who keeps getting whupped. Charlie brown keeps kicking that football. A new poll from the Washington Post and abc news shows president obamas Approval Rating hitting the 50 mark since may of 2013. A
Higher taxes on the president. The president has been very aggressive lately, very bold. Raising taxes on people who are successful. Youre already seeing republicans start to object. Its not going to make people who are struggling more successful. Is it a political legacy . Mitt romney may be back and hes got a new platform to prove it. Very problematic for mitt romney who has others to run a campaign on poverty. He choked like a dog. We cannot allow that to happen again. Who in their right mind would listen to someone who keeps getting whupped. Charlie brown keeps kicking that football. A new poll from the Washington Post and abc news shows president obamas Approval Rating hitting the 50 mark since may of 2013. Among all adults polled, 50 approve of the way president obama is handling his job while 44 disapprove. In the october poll, same poll, president obamas Approval Rating was 10 points layer, at 40 . President obama will announce a package of state cuts paid for by an increase in
Obstruction of justice inquiry. The president fired off a series of tweets this morning to discredit the report while calling the russia investigation mccarthyism at its worst and claiming mueller is heavily conflicted. Meanwhile trumps personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, kicked off another media blitz just this sunday on meet the press, accusing muellers team of leaking the story. Giuliani says the alleged leak is part of an effort by the special counsel to convince mcgahn that the president is setting him up for a fall. All right. Lets bring in our panel, ellie miss tall, above the law. Com editor. Mara gay, danny cevallos, and christina greer. Lets start with you on this, mara. Youre a member of the New York Times Editorial Board. As we look at the back and forth and this bombshell report over the weekend, saturday, yesterday, that says look at the 30 hours. Look at the nine months. Look at the three sitdowns that mcgahn supposedly has had with either mueller and or his team. Yeah. I
Oklahoma s First District congressman says he is one of three Republicans actively speaking to members about becoming speaker after Kevin McCarthy was removed in an historic vote on Tuesday.
okay, steve scalese okay for you? well, there s two it depends on if he would accept these rules. we would have to have that discussion. so far he has not indicated he would run. i would prefer jim jordan. if kevin mccarthy pulls out of the race. laura:: you don t have the votes. i do expect him to campaign. he hadn t running yet. if kevin mccarthy got in the race, jim jordan would get into it and i believe he would win and invigorate our movement. he s broadly trusted in every corner of the republican party. and with a lot of our donors and supporters and activists. that s the type of option if mccarthy bows out. if he doesn t bow out, he ll have to live the entirety of his speakership in a straitjacket constructed by the rules that we re working on now. laura:: you prefer a speaker with a straitjacket than one who you believe is just a spend-oh-rama. if it s kevin mccarthy.