he says things are going swimmingly, nothing to see here. right. look, it seems to me it depends on with whom you speak at the white house. i spoke with somebody last night who said that it s quieter inside than you would think. and that obviously today is a lot better than it was yesterday for the white house. but there are still defactions there that remain. the president, i have been told by somebody who talks to him quite regularly, that the president believes that the media is creating a conspiracy that does not exist, and that is what you heard from sebastien gorka. and that he intends to continue fighting back this way, and that is, again, what you heard from mr. gorka. dana, we hear though from john mccain on capitol hill today who said this has sucked all the oxygen out of the room, this drip, drip, drip.
cause in this. what did we learn there? well, not a whole lot. let s start with that. i don t think we learned anything of of substance except he thinks it s going to be a really great bill and that perhaps he thinks it needs more money which i think, you know, maybe mitch mcconnell would have something to say about that. you know, i think this is about the president basically telling the world that he s working on it. that things are going swimmingly in his administration. they are very eager to show progress here. that s what these sort of photo op moments are all about this week. 150 days in to an all-republican washington, obamacare is still the law of the land. it gets hard at some point to keep making the case things are going swimmingly. i do get psychology matters as you re trying to move negotiations forward. but to your point, before we got to the president, we played senate rand paul. there are 52 republican senators. they can only afford to lose two. if mike pence is th
herself writes about in a cnn article that the head of the federal student aid office quit and complained about political meddling. why is this really concerning? well, because that was the number one concern that senators cited about betsy devos when she came in was that she had no background in official education and the education field, but she was financially an activist, a school choice activist and a political donor. so certainly there is going to be a lot of focus on russia going forward. but you would hope that some of these stories about what is going on in terms of that and in terms of these proposed budget cuts as well as some of the members, folks who she is staffing up with and she hired a lawyer apparently who is also heavy into public choice and has worked for some of these for profit colleges that are under federal investigation. other than that, everything going swimmingly.
certainly there is going to be a loft focus on russia going forward. but you would hope that some of these stories about what s going on in terms of that and in terms of these proposed budget cuts as well as some of the members, folks who she is staffing up with. she hired a lawyer apparently who is also heavy into public choice and has worked for some of these for profit colleges that are under federal investigation. other than that, everything going swimmingly. philip bump across town in washington, to a different cabinet agency. and that s the department of justice under jeff sessions. what have the rollbacks been that have been rolling back quietly since the obama years? jeff sessions came into his position sort of as the archetypical attorney general that you would have expected from donald trump s campaign. he is very, very tough on crime. crime is a huge problem that is increasing, so on and so forth. so the efforts that we ve seen him under take, for example, he has direc
herself writes about in a cnn article that the head of the federal student aid office quit and complained about political meddling. why is this really concerning? well, because that was the number one concern that senators cited about betsy devos when she came in was that she had no background in official education and the education field, but she was financially an activist, a school choice activist and a political donor. so certainly there is going to be a lot of focus on russia going forward. but you would hope that some of these stories about what is going on in terms of that and in terms of these proposed budget cuts as well as some of the members, folks who she is staffing up with and she hired a lawyer apparently who is also heavy into public choice and has worked for some of these for profit colleges that are under federal investigation. other than that, everything going swimmingly. philip bump across town in washington to a different