gibb us a sense if you can for the next if you talked to the governor, the mayor, any other officials there outside of the synagogue when you were there and we understand that you may be headed to one of the hospitals now. there s going to be a press briefing at 4:00 which we ll be following. i was able to talk with the governor today, the mayor, senator kaye sis casey, the othl state representatives, city council members. this is a community that is united. we re united in grief. we re united in a resolve to protect these institutions and to overcome this. leland: congressman keith rofis with us on the phone, the congressman is there by the synagogue. stay with us p. us. we appreciate it. i have another one i have to hop on.
i wonder if in will be the first big break depending what happens here if he does decide to fire jeff sessions if in will be the breaking point. and anita, as you know a piece in the wall street journal, an interview they did with the president he questioned the story line of sessions loyalty saying in effect trump s crowds were the band wagon jeff sessions want today leave the u.s. senate to hop on. quote he looks at the 40,000 people and he probably says, what do i have to lose, mr. trump said? so it s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement. anita for good reason this president has been called transactional. right i mean you should tell jeff sessions that. am i m sure when he did and came out and endorsed him and it was the first endorsement in the senate it felt like he was going out on a leap. he was taking a leap there. it did feel like a big deal at the time. phil we have all seen the elaborate setups on youtube of a
announced early on, the first version of that, but none of them have en masse this whole huge group of senators republican senators or republican lawmakers have not really gone against him. i wonder if this is going to be really the break, the first big break depending what happens here if he does decide to fire jeff sessions if this will be the breaking point. and anita, as you know, a piece in the wall street journal, an interview they did with the president, he kind of questioned the story line of sessions loyalty. saying that in effect, trump s crowds were the bandwagon jeff sessions wanted to leave the u.s. senate to hop on. he looks at the 40,000 people and he probably says what do i have to lose, mr. trump said so it s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement. anita for good reason this president has been called transaction actional. you should tell yef sessions that. i m sure months ago last year when he came out and endorsed
this down what would it be today. the threat of legislation so say, look, either you solve this or when we come in nobody wins when when we come in. onerous and cost you money to do. this you have to effect their profits and bottom line. you know threat of legislation. presidential election in 1998 talking about regulating critical infrastructure. first one to hop on were the banks. no one want to be regulated by the government. have to get ahead of it. threat of legislation and get these guys to step up their game is probably the only lever they have that they can pull. don t bluff. follow through on it. steve: absolutely. morgan wright who is from my neck of the woods out in kansas. that s right. steve: morgan, thank you very much. straight ahead, democrats just keep attacking our president. he is true to form. true to his nature. and that is not how a democracy works.
axiom of conservatism ever since conservatives opposed civil war pensions, right? that the ideas of things like social security and medicare are moral hazards, bad things. conservatives have always opposed those programs, but the way that the republican party won the reagan democrats away from their former party was by saying, you know what, we respect you, we respect your values. that s sort of what president obama was getting to in his moment. we respect you. well, mitt romney has shown a lack of respect for working-class voters who have become a core of the republican party. that s the big problem here. steve, before we get to you, we also have pictures. we re watching, again, paul ryan. he is speaking at a town hall in dover, new hampshire. these pictures here of governor romney about to hop on to a plane. this is all going on right now. we ll continue to listen in. if there is anything of note, we ll have it for you. ezra klein wrote republicans have become outraged over the pr