Rose welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about President Trumps first 100 days. Joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. If you look at these hundred days, i think theres a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. Matthew and i both eluded to earlier, hes got bad numbers. The president has the toolbox. If you are popular you can pressure the congress. He doesnt have that. Hes backed into one part of the Republican Party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the Freedom Caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough Public Policy program am but he is running out of tools. And thats a problem. Rose we continue with Clarissa Ward Senior International correspondent for cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghani
Rose welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about President Trumps first 100 days. Joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. If you look at these hundred days, i think theres a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. Matthew and i both eluded to earlier, hes got bad numbers. The president has the toolbox. If you are popular you can pressure the congress. He doesnt have that. Hes backed into one part of the Republican Party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the Freedom Caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough Public Policy program am but he is running out of tools. And thats a problem. Rose we continue with Clarissa Ward Senior International correspondent for cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghani
Cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghanistan and gazza i know and have seen first hand the horrors of war and all people from all Different Countries and all different war zones are, of course, victims and suffering enormously. But there is something unique to the Syrian Crisis to both the david and goliath kind of element to it. Whereby you have a civilian population being bombarded from the skies, relentlessly. Where the rebel fighters do not have anything like the same kind of firepower that the russians and the regime and the iranians and hezbollah have when put together. So and to see hospitals targeted, to see Fruit Markets targeted, to see schools targeted, there is a cynicism to the syrian war that really is particularly haunting to me. Rose and we conclude this evening with author and new yorker columnist calvin trillin. I cant remember when pictures were introduced in the new yorker but a the lo of these store hees were written before there were photographs, and before there
Exactly suggest perhaps a man of the people and with a pool struggling to pay their energy bills. I think that hes got their interests at heart, alex on. No, and i think nobody would accuse richie soon, i could being a man of the people at least of all himself. He was caught on camera or in a famous video or infamous video of several deca of a couple of decades ago, saying that he course didnt have any working class friends at all. And why would he, hes grown up in a very privileged atmosphere. He went to a private school, he spent his life in the city of london and with moving with the elite in britain and around the world. So this is a guy who is as just as disconnected, possibly more disconnected from the realities facing most of the British Working class. And indeed, quite a lot of a middle class in britain than barbara johnson. I was old davy camera and it was so this isnt somebody who is going to be able to say to the british people, i feel your pain because he doesnt and he neve