and joining us our political panel abc political director rick klein the national journal s josh and john mccormick, rick, how much would you have liked to have been the fly on the road at that mcconnell obama meeting? maybe they should have had bourbon maybe it would have helped things. michigan mcconnell is on to something about the president s tone. not left, right but the president leaning forward in the face of a pretty bad defeat a month ago. yes, is he a liberal and obviously pushing things to the left and his policies as you would expect. mostly it s the aggressiveness of his actions in standing up against the tax bill and moving forward on immigration despite the election results. the signal from him has been they are going to need something stronger than bourbon to get something done. interesting he just got a she lacking the democratic party did. you would think the president would want to negotiate. instead he does this move where he does executive action which enrage
to big government. trust in institutions is at an all-time low. here with us now from washington, staff correspondent for the national journal. sophie and her colleague co-wrote an article that could have well been written this morning. how americans lost trust in our greatest institutions. two years later a recent gallup survey shows that disillusionment exists with less than 30% of americans holding high confidence in institutions like the presidency, public schools and banks. what is driving this? that s a great question, joe. first of all, hi, everyone. it s great to be here today. i think the question of what s driving this decline in trust is an interesting one and it s not quite clear what the answer is. there s definitely a sense that trust has gone down since the late 70s. that s been played out in annual gallup surveys. i think that you can make the
political analyst ron brownstein of the national journal. the president spoke earlier today. he touched upon the situation in the middle east. he touched upon the situation in ukraine as well. let me play a little clip of what the president said. if russia continues to violate ukraine s sovereignty and back these separatists and these separatists become more and more dangerous and now are risks not simply to the people inside of ukraine but the broader international community, then russia will only further isolate itself from the international community and the costs for russia s behavior will only continue to increase. so, how does that strike you, the tone, the passion, the content, of what he s saying? well, you know, it s interesting, it s a very characteristic statement. if you look at the president s remarks on foreign policy, increasingly, over the past year the west point speech, a lot of reliance on the international norms and participation in the international system
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prosecuted if they have a clean record. meanwhile, on the left coast in the great state of washington, the sticky icky went on sale for entertainment purposes for the first time this year. and back on the right coast, weed has become part of the contentious florida governor s race, all of which is apparently enough to make some yokle in denver wonder if obama is thinking about getting the gang back together. that s not happening. what is happening is friend of the show and politics writer for the washington examiner betsy woodruff getting down in the weeds of mary jane. there s an interesting interview in the national journal with a legal weed dealer, or undocumented weed dealer, who s saying they still have the advantage over the government in that they have better prices, established relationships, more privacy, and some of them, i hear, deliver. how s the government going to