you focusing on prescription drug prices, creating more jobs with the u.s. and ca trade deal. or, by the way, nancy pelosi hasn t brought a bill to the floor to make sure our troops have the tools they need to train safely. they re not doing any of that stuff because they are obsessed of impeachment and people are sick and tired of this stuff. they are watching these career bureaucrats have policy disagreements. laura: he watched the ratings and watched the numbers, how people are tuning in and it is quite staggering to see the drop-off in viewership for these hearings, contrary to what we saw with bill clinton, the nixon impeachment. day one, 30 million people, day two, 12.7. day three and that was the big star witness, that went down to four. they liked the uniform but maybe not watching it all day. this is not gathering steam. it s gathering dust.
get done. mcconnell is definitely leading the charge there but that is the argument a lot of senate republicans have been making, that we have actual legislative work to do, we have to fund the government, there is a pending trade deal that a lot of us want to get ratified. i was talking to some republicans over the last few weeks saying impeachment could perhaps help the prospects of the usmca trade deal because democrats are kind of desperate to show they can get something done in addition to being in this impeachment inquiry. senior senate republicans have told me we don t know what we don t know, we are learning something new every day from this impeachment inquiry from these various witnesses. while some of the president s doe defenders want to defend him, most are really keeping their powder dry. mcconnell again, if you look at the transcript of his speech this morning, railing against
president-elect trump hosted tulsi gabbard in new york almost three years ago during his transition to talk about syria policy. have you spoken since then? no. just the one time. yeah. joe biden is staying out of it instead training his attacks on his successor mike pence. both men have stops in the keystone state this week. joe biden said i know pennsylvania and pennsylvanians will not be fooled by pence s blind promotion of trump s irresponsible trade wars. but mike pence in p.a. to plug the usmca trade deal shot back. truth is pennsylvania lost 51,000 manufacturing jobs when joe was vice president. some high profile democrats aren t impressed with biden either. so the new york times reports the primary could soon be joined by sherri rofd brown, eric holder, michael bloomberg, or hillary clinton. we have to nominate the best you. clinton could have confronted gabbard tonight at an event in d.c. they were both billed as attending. hrc changed her rsvp to
to put a spotlight on the feelings but discipline doesn t last very long. i agree it s bad on both sides 120 republicans he has come down one republicans in the past and on the other side of h the agenda with the u-letter s mca trade deal then talk about nafta. but that would be suicidal. is not just all politics the president took thisul decision to pull 1000 troops back from the turkish border than they made the decision to move into northern syria. the president presumably has been taken this from senator rand paul who is an isolationist. so yes you cannot just do these things on the assumption there will not be consequences there are real substantial r
i agree. i think it s bad on both sides. 120 republicans buck the president s side here. he s come down on republicans in the past like a ton of bricks. they live in fear of the tweet, maybe not so much any longer. on the other side, he wants nancy pelosi to help pass the usmca trade deal. if he doesn t get it, he talked about maybe we ll rip up nafta. i don t think it s good for the president s re-election. paul: i ll undermine the economy i m running on for re-election if they don t pass the usmca, that would be suicidal. it s not all politics. the president took this decision to pull 1,000 troops back from the turkish border, the turks made the decision to move into northern syria. the president presumably has been taking a lot of advice from senator rand paul who is indeed an isolationist. so you can t just do these things on the assumption that there will not be any consequences. there are real substantial consequences. the russians moved soldiers into