tone deafness, a political malpractice going on with john kelly, to think that he could keep rob porter on despite all of this is kind of mind-boggling. it leaves me with the impression that there are two trumps at the white house, the president himself and the chief of staff, and both of them sometimes don t listen to reason. i have to say this, because there s all this consternation about the memo, the memo, the fbi, the fisa warrants and all this stuff, classified information. rob portman was seeing classified information and didn t have a permanent security clearance. so did jared kushner. so did jared kushner. this is in part because of the allegations of domestic abuse that john kelly knew about. walter shaub tweets tonight, the former head of the office of government ethics, he said john kelly, often touted as the white house s adult, falsely smeared a congresswoman, tells us a
that on multiple levels. first of all, it should not take a photograph of somebody with a black eye to prompt the white house to take action. the white house should be a shining example of what s tolerated in the workplace, not having to spin itself out of control the way it s doing tonight. the other thing, don, and this gets to what gloria was saying, on the face of it, obviously domestic violence should not be tolerated and that should be grounds enough for dismissal. but there is sort of a political tone deafness, a political malpractice going on with john kelly, to think that he could keep rob porter on despite all of this is kind of mind-boggling. it leaves me with the impression that there are two trumps at the white house, the president himself and the chief of staff, and both of them sometimes don t listen to reason. i have to say this, because there s all this consternation about the memo, the memo, the fbi, the fisa warrants and all this stuff, classified information. rob
mueller is doing a good job so the anger from the president and a lot of the people saying please fire them all and the president saying i ll do it. they don t know when he s going to be angry about what. but to jeff s point, the deposition being like any other, it s one thing to lie about real estate deals and to come back and say we got you 30 times in one deposition, this time, legal consequences for this, he would advise trump not to lie and that is the concern that his truthful hyperbole might be part of the deal. now we find out months later that he was trying to fire bob mueller. it s disappointing that what we re seeing as being the president of a company and the president of the united states. i think it shows a sign of tone
wringing their hands with glee at the growing number of opportunities to in states where the republican party was already beginning to look vulnerable after their repeat aid tax on health care. so how will republicans react to the guilded age backlash? and will it give them pause as they pursue parts two and three of the driving dream, ending the affordable care act and slashing away at medicare and medicaid. joining us is bruce bartlett, former domestic policy adviser to ronald reagan and one of the architect of supplies and economics and author of the book the truth matters. so mr. bruce, trump, you know, you just got a bunch richer, telling that to his mar-a-lago friends. that tone deafness at the way that s going to come across to the american people, or is that a recognition that it doesn t matter what the american people say? his supporters don t care if republicans just enriched themselves and their friends? i think to a large extent they don t care. because what they know w
the gilded age backlash? and will it give them pause as they pursue parts two and three of the driving dream, ending the affordable care act and slashing away at medicare and medicaid. joining us is bruce bartlett, former domestic policy adviser to ronald reagan and one of the architects of supplies and economics and author of the book the truth matters. so mr. bruce, trump, you know, you just got a bunch richer, telling that to his mar-a-lago friends. is that tone deafness at the way that s going to come across to the american people, or is that a recognition that it doesn t matter what the american people say? his supporters don t care if republicans just enriched themselves and their friends? i think to a large extent they don t care. because what they know what they have done is set fiscal policy on course in a way that it won t even matter next year if the democrats get control of the house and senate because they re going to inherit a huge deficit,