playing it to their advantage. there s nothing wrong with saying yes. i think i said, each side give its own side leeway that the other side doesn t. and you re seeing that here. laura? it s not quite as it s very simple to say, it s either a partisan issue or it s not. but in reality, for the american people to understand how this works, the reason it s so important about who is in charge of a committee or the overall chamber is because in order for you to actually have a bark with a bite, meaning, you can say, you have a subpoena to come testify in front of congress and if you do not do it, i m either going to have the sergeant in arms of our congress come out and bring you in and they can hold you until the end of the legislative session in the congressional jail, or say, i m going to refer it to the department of justice, who is led by somebody at the whim of the president of the united states. or they can say, i m going to go to a federal court and say, i would like you to
the most conservative, right? you re absolutely correct. this that is the dynamic. this does not pick up moderates, it loses moderates. this is sort of the representative trent franks, an arizona republican, a member of the house freedom caucus, got this fairly hilarious analogy for this. he says trying to get this through the house is like trying to squeeze a giraffe through a keyhole. whatever comes out the other side doesn t really look too pretty. so yeah this is what s happening. you kind of got to shimmy this thing to make it happen. it s easy to forget. that s how obamacare happened years ago. it was a year-long process. after the stimulus funding went through. at the beginning of 09, the beginning of obama s term it took them a year to move this back and forth through the
having a beer with members of the other side doesn t sound like something an interovertime would enjoy, either. it s work. it s required. reporter: i want to ask you about your brother, president george w. bush. you said i have to do the heisman on the brother that i love. this is not something i m comfortable doing. there s a fascination about where i m different and where i m the same. but when you love someone as your brother or your dad, it s not easy for me to say, just kind of throw him under the bus to make myself look better. i just can t do it. reporter: he said he will campaign for you. will you ask him to? he s been helpful already. he s helped in gatherings that weren t inconvenient for him. reporter: he will be with you in the battleground states? i don t know. we just started. reporter: let s switch to the mood of the country. because your mother barbara bush famously said that there have been nuch bushes in the white house. she s come around on that chang
story was coming out, he said there will be so many explosions between now and next year. why doesn t somebody do what bill clinton did in 1991 when george h.w. bush had a 90% approval rating and everybody was scared to run against him. they jumped in and because he jumped in bill clinton was president of the united states. and that was worth $200 million. two reasons. one is for position in the fors which is still prohibitive for any challenger. the other is what this story is about, which is money in politics. and clintons are the masters of money in politics. barack obama wasn t afraid. that was the part that when i saw the first obama financial disclosure report, i said being ookay, he can win. because if he could raise the money, which nobody else could, he could beat her. but i don t think there is anyone out there who looks at this situation and says i can raise the money i need to run against hillary clinton. speaking of polls, a new
i m surprised by how well marco sdw does with the press. there was a review side by side hillary clinton walks through an airport, there is all the entourage, they re following her. and she blows past head down. and then marco comes up with a backpack. and they re asking questions about rap. what i thought was his best moment so far, he was asked would you attend a guy wedding. and he basically said, yeah, sure, if i knew the person. and he did it in a human way, relaxed way. answered the question. didn t try to tie it up in politics. just answered the question. and i thought, okay if you re able to continue to do that and it doesn t alienate the republican base that s a fine talent. peter baker, thank you very much. jeremy peters thank you as well. jeremy way to defend your newspaper. you defend the times on like