families have to do and when we take over in november, with 87 new republicans, and a class of 63 pickup over democrats, we ll have that opportunity to show how we will govern. right now, we continue to be shut out of every discussion that takes place and they continue to run it like they did that got them in trouble. wait a minute. i ve got to disagree a little bit on that. the commission we re talking about was chaired by ear skin boel, chief of staff in a democratic presidency, and simpson, one of the conserve tich are manies out there, and just today, judd gregg said he was for it. so a bipartisan commission. we ve had several weeks now. the ideas have been out there. which pieces of it do you not support? they talk about raising the social security age in terms of benefits. for that or against it? eliot, look, i think you have to take it all in context here.
63 pickup over democrats, we ll have that opportunity to show how we will govern. right now, we continue to be shut out of every discussion that takes place and they continue to run it like they did that got them in trouble. wait a minute. i ve got to disagree a little bit on that. the commission we re talking about was chaired by ear skin boel, chief of staff in a democratic presidency, and simpson, one of the conserve tich are manies out there, and just today, judd gregg said he was for it. so a bipartisan commission. we ve had several weeks now. the ideas have been out there. which pieces of it do you not support? they talk about raising the social security age in terms of benefits. for that or against it? eliot, look, i think you have to take it all in context here. and say, what will move us forward? there are other proposals out there as well with all due respect, you
our bull terrier, rex, slept in the hall. my bed was an army cot, one of those affairs made wide enough to sleep on comfortableably only by putting up flat with the middle section, the two sides which ordinarily hang down like a drop leaf table. when these sides are up, it is perilous to roll too far near the edge where then the cot is likely to tich completely over, brirnging the whole bed down on top of one with a tremendous crash. this is in fact precisely what happened about 2:00 in the morning. always a deep sleeper, slow to arouse, i had lied to briggs. i was at first unconscious of what had happened when the iron cot rolled me on to the floor and toppled over op me. it left me still warmly bundled up and unhurt, for the bed rested like a canopy. hence, i did not wake up, only reached the edge of consciousness and went back. the racquet, however, instantly awakened my mother who came to
on the ground in afghanistan after 9/11. mattis commanded the first marine division following the invasion of iraq in 2003. bottom line, leland, nobody knows the face of combat like secretary jim mattis. not many understand their sacrifice. he will be planning the strategy for not just afghanistan but all combat operations moving forward. leland: we ll see how the trump doctrine evolved. thank you. molly has more. molly: president trump back from his first foreign trip returning to mull tich many plit kl head cakes in washington, the washington post report that his son-in-law and top advisor, jared tusher in, talked with the russians last december about setting up a secret backchannel communication. this amid ongoing investigations that the president may be considering a white house staff shakeup. let s bring in james freeman, assistant editor at the wall street journal. he s also a fox news contributor. thanks for being here.
you re winning in south carolina. a big lead in new hampshire. let me ask you about iowa. the gop establishment has telegraphed what they are planning to do to you and that s spend a lot of money in negative ads. i understand the club for growth. it s up there with negative ads questioning your conservatism. do you think that played a part in the polls for iowa? club for growth came up to my office and asked me for $1 million. i said no thank you. i want to be an intelligent person. i said no thank you and then they started going negative. they came up, asked for a million dollars and then they go negative tich negative. i think people are wise to that. anyone who hits me, we re going to hit ten times harder. we re going to dollar for dollar go after them. we have more money than anybody else by a factor of a thousand. we ll go after them the same way.