potentially she gets unseated. dagen: the people are worried about in their own party of this, putting this mood, giving bonuses to people because of tax reform crumbs and then doubling down a tripling down on it. they were afraid of that being a commercial that somebody cuts in the midterm. josh: she s long been a liability for democrats and not because they believe in exactly what they said. they all believe it s crumbs and they all believe in open borders and abolish ice and impeaching president trump and reversing all of the tax cuts. that is uniform in the democratic party these days. with different is the democratic party is undergoing a full-fledged civil war and we saw play out in joe crowley s district, was out last week in california when the democratic party endorsed a left-wing ideologue over the democratic icon in dianne feinstein in california. it is playing out in cities and
it s either his general fondness for dictatorial figures, or it may be that having been criticized for this, he is in trumpian fashion doubling down, tripling down, just compounding the error. or it may be that the russians have something over his head, that the russians have been laundering money through his businesses, or there s some other leverage the russians have, which is obviously the subject of our investigation. any of those are possible. all of those are possible. secretary mattis seems to be walking a tightrope now, because he is trying to reassure the allies that we believe in collective security, this is the most important defense treaty that s ever existed. and at the same time, he can t offend the boss. look what happened to h.r. mcmaster, by trying to speak truth to power. that s very true, he s in a very difficult position. i think he s walked that line very well. but look, he is not secretary mattis is not going to be able
. welcome back. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m. this morning, national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan, good morning to you. talk to us about axios one big thing. well, as usual, there s two narratives going on with donald trump. there s the public on twitter, where he s with the family separation crisis, where he looks completely unapologetic and brazen, doubling down, tripling down. but last night when he met with house republicans, according to sources in the room, he did reveal that he feels the political pressure from this issue. in a way that he s not revealing publicly. he talked about how his daughter, ivanka had shown him the images and they were bad and
broadly or specifically about that problem of separating families, separating children on the border. that really sums it all up there in that speech, wolf. he has to show some daylight, a willingness to move away from that zero tolerance policy and let kids stay with their moms and dads. he was doubling down, even tripling down on that policy, not budging at all. kaitlan, we re going to get back to you. right now i want to go to capitol hill, susan jackson lee of texas is joining us. congresswoman, thank you for joining us. i know you personally have seen a lot of these gut-wrenching moments of these kids being separated from their parents. you just heard the president doubling and tripling down, not budging at all on this, at least not now. what s your message to the president? wolf, i think everyone has awakened with the cries and screams and pain of these little ones that i actually saw for the two daiy days i spent on the bo
is closing in or as i often tweet at him squeezing in on him, just squeezing him, that he does something ridiculous and offensive and often the go to is immigration. it s interesting that paul manafort went to jail on friday and today here we are. and this is a little different, though, mika, because this separation of families, this is images and they ve been so powerful already. the little girl having her shoe laces taken off, the children crying, the sounds of those children crying. the president is a visual and visceral person and he s hearing that from his bief, from former republican first ladies. this is a 67% disapproval issue he s touching. and to be clear attorney general jeff sessions made the policy announcement in april, but you see the president kind of doubling down on it, tripling