it is a serious thing. it just completely jumbled the minds of many people in this town for a long time. a lot of republicans are out there too wantt to syria thing. laura: but the republicans the republican party, whatever they want they get. but not for a lot of the ubdemocrats. they have been very cautious, i think smartlyfo so, about gettig re-involved in a lot of these form battles. but look, hillary i think and several others are seriously b thinking about getting in and whether that happens laura: which he be able to get the staffers with other campaigns? she has her own. laura: mark penn says hillary would get all her top people back. the question is there has been so much money raised for bernie sanders, elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg that it will be a money game. laura: hillary comes in pete. that is a possibility.
said very few people could handle it. i sort of thrive on it. a lot to discuss tonight. john kasich, the former republican governor of ohio, is here. sir, geood evening to you. hello, don. the president says he is thriving on impeachment, but at the same time, he s getting huge backlash from some of his staunchest allies on his position on syria at a time when he needs their support more than ever. you think he weakened himself or you think this won t matter? well, you know, it s kind of hard for me to say, don. i guess i would say they re rolling their eyes and all that, but that s not enough to get them to step up to the plate and say they re ought to be an inquiry. there ought to be an investigation. we ought to get to the bottom of this. we ought to figure out what all the facts are. we re not hearing that. i mean so, you know, the syria thing threw him off because the kurds have helped us in iraq. they ve obviously been fighting with us in syria, so that s
massive escalation using a moab is an escalation in an ongoing war, and i think some of the concerns, we ll see where we are in a week or two weeks, but some of the concerns we ve had a pretty chaotic decision making process at the white house, i would say that might be charitable, and, you know, not knowing whether the president actually was part of this, whether he s fully conceived of all the implications, we hope this is successful, but i think the challenge here is we don t have that reassurance right now. i hope we ll see it in the future. it does sort of beg the question why not answer the question, because there was some praise from some unexpected places about the way the syria thing came about. john kerry. a series of five meetings. you know, he did it in a much more traditional way. why not just come out and say, here s what i did, here s why i did it. to me there s this kind of a much ado about nothing. he was coming as a ceo, he s going to delegate. he looked at ma
that anybody seemed to agree on whether it was allegations of interfering in the elections. syria thing was a setup. it doesn t seem like the meetings went well unless you like that there is a new level of discord between the two. well, look, i put it this way. i think the meeting yesterday was probably frostier than a siberian winter morning. at the same time this was an honest reflection of two countries who right now have a very different point of view. the big difference is that russia now understands they aren t dealing with a pushover country. they aren t dealing with an administration that looks the other way at whatever they do. and they are going to have to face up to realities. they won t just be able to march all over northern europe and put their foot feet down and expect no response. so sure, there is tension. but i also think in the long term it s a more healthy relationship. this is an honest relationship. we re letting them know we aren t tolerating aggression or yo
care. which led to senators mike lee and ted cruz, just hours later, appearing with eight house republicans for a bit of damage control. we are watching right now, the republican party, cannibalize itself in realtime. but here s the thing. that does not mean we are going to avoid a government shutdown, or even a adult over this crew shade to take down obama care. because the passion on obama care, the zealotry that makes republicans willing to shut down the u.s. government to kill it, that hasn t got anywhere. the reason i came to congress after a 12-year hiatus, is because this bill is so oppressive and so hurtful. this is going to be a law that we see already as hurting people. i will do everything necessary and anything possible to defund obama care. reporter: more than two years after the president signed his health care law, the republican party s signature national priority is still destroying it.