writing, quote i m with him in his re-election all the way. tim al beberta, write it down. mcdaniel is a ted cruz republican kind of always has been. do you think there s a chance he could beat roger wicker. how much of a problem is that, ultimately, for republicans? i think there s a chance. i talked to a couple of folks who did polling in mississippi. wicker is not terribly strong. in some ways, obviously, luther strange arrived to the senate and a place holder. wicker is a true incumbent. there were some shades of alabama in mississippi. you can see some of the parallels here beginning to take shape. the president, by all accounts, doesn t have much of a relationship with wicker other than the fact he s a rank and file republican senator who is an incumbent and friendly to the white house and voted with the white house on any number of things. so trump is trying to show some loyalty here. trying to project a sense of
missile defense systems. in our own words, nbc reporting reigned down the radio active sludge on a city. that s how it would work, in theory. it s terrifying to think of. they re not at that point. it would be the nastiest of dirty bombs. this is something they re trying to develop. i think a lot of countries around the world, including the united states has looked into underwater drone capabilities. but at this point, because of their military might, it s not where it once was. it s not where ours is. there s a lot of talk and sort of muscle flexing from putin at this point. but three u.s. intelligence officials told nbc news this week they that are not at the point to be able to launch anything like that. how much of how putin is approaching this, phil, tim, either of you jump in. how much of this is about how president trump consumes news? i mean, if putin says something, says i can do x or y or z and our intelligence is saying probably not. but the president hears that and
in some ways with, it s something we suspected might happen. it seems like we have more evidence than ever before. it is unprecedented. one of the parallels that has been drawn over time in kushner s relationship is that of robert kennedy. this is different. it involves beusiness interests and family business interests on both parts. both the trumps and the kushners. we have wondered for a long time where the qatar decision came from. is he totally out of the blue? yeah. it was another thing that trump blurted out. all of a sudden he was like, great, we re going full bore on, you know, on that. and, you know, everybody started going wait, where did it come from? that s what the state department says not to do. right. right. if this is the answer where the cqatar decision came from, it s interesting. tim, what is your sense of how the rest of the republican party is interacting with the