voters turned sour. today s democrats face a what do we now situation. do they ramp up impeachment. president trump seems to want do that. do they fight him on his terms, trading insult for insult? last time a democrat tried that, hillary clinton wound up calling some of his supporters a basket of beploer ables. how did that work out? or do they try to do what the president insists he won t do, conduct the nation s business. the democrats back the house by promising to fix health care in a lot of swing districts. what happened to that? the path is not clear, impeaching, fighting, or ignoring all have it s a party it s a party divided with a base growing impatient for impeachment and a leadership saying not yet. the only way we re going to beat him is to impeach him. how about that? president trump can t stop talking about impeachment. whether they carry the big i
hurl an accusation and an insult which is going to break the back of the camel here. or that of the united states. and i think we ve seen over a period of time, his capacity to turn to these kind of rhetorical flourishes, to cover a large part of his anatomy. but i think that we have to take that in the context of his survivability as such. that goes a bit too far under the circumstances, to say we re engaged in collaboration with the taliban in order to occupy his country for its resources, we re there to help stabilize his country and the men and women who have sacrificed their lives for that objective are to be praised and not used cynically in this fashion. in any event, chuck hagel my good friend and former certainly exercised a great deal of discretion, did he not engage in trading insult for insult. but i can say it from this particular platform.
respond in kind. put the statement up on-screen from brendan buck, top aide for the house speaker who says, paul ryan is focusing the next month on defeating democrats and all republicans running for office should probably do the same. that s the extent of that. if you talk to his political spokesman, zach roada, basically saying the same thing. not trading insult for insult with donald trump at this point. seems like republicans are aware they could very well lose the senate and now are making sure they have a big majority in the house and want to keep it. new jersey governor chris christie, someone who backs up donald trump, but we haven t heard a lot from him especially about these comments from 2005. what s going on there? he was supposed to be at the debate sunday night. all of a sudden we were surprised with the news he was not going to be there, and keep in mind, brianna, this is after chris christie almost took over a debate prep heading into sunday s debate. was supposed