indiscriminate, irresponsible. we offer the fullest condemnation and extend our sympathy to the victims and their families and our support government. we expand by our closest ally in the special relationship that we have. you re not saying that russia was behind it? right now we are standing with our uk allies. they re still working through even some of the details of that. and we re going to continue to work with the uk and we certainly stand with them throughout this process. so max, sarah sanders unable to point the finger at russia? because donald trump has a strange affection for the russian dictator. later in the day, rex tillerson did admit the obvious, that russia was responsible for this. we still have not heard that from donald trump or his spokes people, just as we have not heard anything from the white house about the fact that last month you had hundreds of russian mercenaries attacking a u.s. base in syria, and likewise, the white house has refused to respond to
and the biggest problem for the president is the continual talking about it. and clearly she has now changed her mind about taking $130,000 and not talking about it. she wants to go talk about it because there s a lot more in it for her that way. now it may be that two or three weeks before the election she thought, well, this guy s never going to win, i can get $130,000 out of this. but things look a little different today. you both agree, which is a bit shocking. but the thing is, i know his representatives are frustrated by this, meaning the president. i am sure he is frustrated by this. and i think that from what i hear, just from my experience, they re frustrated with the wrong thing. they shouldn t be frustrated whether it s legal, whether the agreement can hold up. it should be us from operation with the talk on the television, media, stormy daniels, her attorney, that s the thing right.
so that s not a good sign. but i guarantee you that if he wins, trump and the republicans will take all credit for it being a trumpified national election and a referendum on the president. but the president s showing that he s going to be very aggressive in these midterms. and go out and plant the flag. and he s glad to have it be a referendum on him. what happens if it s the other way around? well, then you get republicans running scared. then you have kind of the rats are going to flee the ship. then you get a very difficult situation where you have republican leadership, and when you try and run away from it, voters get very mixed signals. so it s going to be difficult. listen, 41 republicans have already resigned in this cycle. democrats only have to pick up 26. which is a lot considering the gerrymandering of the districts, we know that from recent elections.
given the democrats and the gerrymandering of the districts. but democrats are contesting in way more races than republicans are. and so that right there sets up a time and an off-cycle election where democrats really stand a good opportunity in both the house and the senate. charlie, i don t know if you share that view, but what does this do to republicans who on one hand are going to have to fight off primary challenges from the right and on the other hand fight off potentially resurgent democratic candidates? well, the die is cast. the republican party has been thoroughly trumpified. and they re going to go into this election lashed to donald trump. one of the most amazing things about this political moment is with the economy looking good and we ve been talking about the stock market, unemployment rate being down, donald trump is still historically unpopular even with this, what looks like
yeah, i think they can potentially take both houses. i mean i think the house is obviously a little trick yr given the democrats and the gerrymandering of the districts. but democrats are contesting in way more races than republicans are. and so that right there sets up a time and an off-cycle election where democrats really stand a good opportunity in both the house and the senate. charlie, i don t know if you share that view, but what does this do to republicans who on one hand are going to have to fight off primary challenges from the right and on the other hand fight off potentially resurgent democratic candidates? well, the die is cast. the republican party has been thoroughly trumpified. and they re going to go into this election lashed to donald trump. one of the most amazing things about this political moment is with the economy looking good and we ve been talking about the stock market, unemployment rate being down, donald trump is