harm they are not our friends one thing we should look at also is the media in many ways was complicit in this. of course everybody ran those wikileaks e-mails as though they were a big, big story out of a desire to have balance. we all roll our eyes at james comey saying he assumed hillary clinton would win so he did the extra letter which turned out to torpedo her. a lot of people did the same thing in effect. and didn t really investigate donald trump to the extent they should. he was not properly vetted. i would respectfully disagree that the media was complicit in anything there was a ton of great in anything come on. in the sense of aiding russia i respectfully disagree. michael. i think to your point though about james comey, as a whole, the u.s. government, both parties need to really look at
where the president goes from here, kevin you say there are fewer than three weeks for them to work out a deal how diminished is his negotiating posture? speaker pelosi won. i mean, this is a battle this isn t the war but in terms of i actually think when you look at the economic impacts of this point, 5% gdp would have been sliced when you look at 800,000 furloughed folks and countless small businesses across the country you can t measure impacts of folks not going to restaurants and stuff. from a political standpoint. speaker pelosi won this particular moment. that said, i think the president needs to move forward here and say okay, what s the next big idea because whether you disagree with the republican tax plan or not, that was something republicans rallied behind and were unified on and to michael s point, they were not unified when you have senator mitt romney, a republican from utah really still getting used to that,
thinking you had the president making over these last four or five weeks and it was the wall and nothing else maybe a cursory of the shutdown but became the thing this administration talked about and nothing else. first of all, if anyone had the misfortune of flying through philadelphia international airport to have flight delays on top of that because of this partial government shutdown, that s nonsensical the idea that every day folks are impacted by the dysfunction coming out of the washington, to michael s point is just a gro grossnegros grossness calculations. it was. i also think republicans miscalculate to what you were saying, they tried to make this for lack of a better term i m going to use the cliche a wall on bodboarder security by saying you re against border security if you re for this wall. if you look at previous votes and what democrats are arguinar, i put this to benny thompson, the chairman of the committee
there were the watergate babies, 40 or so new members focused on reform and political reform who could have given her terrible and she s actually adopted them as part of her shock troops and it s been a very effective thing to watch somebody as capable as that managing this very unruly, you know, big institution of the house of representatives kevin, help us ride this wave you have nancy pelosi for her entire career, baltimore poli c politi politics she wasn t the most liked person in politics. i m not going to fall for that. i m not trying to get us there. come on [ laughter ] she enjoys a popular support she didn t have before. well, to michael s point, the freshman class of democrats are diverse in ideology and that she s been able to play to her advantage. the texas democrats that flipped districts, suburban democrats that flipped from republicans are very different than
in terms of what was under els mat estimated the president was adamant yes his base wanted this and others would come around to the idea this would be necessary. the wall has become this trump word for border security they want a path to legalization and reforms for undocumented immigrants here. the broad contours of public support on immigration has nl chan hasn t changed that much over the years as trump s base is more angry. i think what is significant for the election is trump has been held up by the strong economy, which in part was a obama and fed. the notion chaos and mismana mismanagement and shutting the government down for a talking point could undermine public confidence and pulls against the gravitational force of a strong economy for the politics of the next two years. michael is describing this