efforts to keep our streets safe. the ones that are really frustrated i can tell you i ve spoken to them firsthand. they re discouraged. there s a real low morale going on right now, because they see a president who is politicizing the agency and the work they do nobly in a way they ve never seen before. it s really discouraging, and in the end, all he s doing is pandering to his base by demeanizing immigrants and using ice as the political punching bag. i appreciate your candor and particularly in your role as being the former chief of staff at ice. thank you. thank you. what s worse in the world of party politics? the president versus republicans or house speaker pelosi versus the squad? we have some answers to that next. inally discovered. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.
midterms? well, if we saw anything from 2017 it s that democrats are looking to obstruct president trump s agenda and the gop congress as much as they can. with this win on gop tax reform, i think this is probably the momentum that the republicans need moving forward on entitlement reform, on infrastructure, i mean, those small bills that they can actually get bipartisan support on, those will be the things that probably move the needle nor ward and probably lessen the pressure on republicans at this time. kelly jane, the suggestion that infrastructure might be easier is going to be challenged by democrats of course and the president talked back in the joint session of congress that it would be a trillion dollar plan. where is that money coming from? that s a great question, victor. normally i would say infrastructure would be a great bipartisan issue and democrats
hard to campaign on. the last several special elections, let me wrap up with you here. there s a a senior white house official who says that there is some discrepancy between, you know, the white house and congressional campaign officials. is that the only discrepancy we re seeing here or is the white house still divided about where they go? i think right now the white house is looking for wins in any way they can get it and if that comes through congress, then so be it. but right now they re looking for more pro trump candidates right now and president trump is going to have to distance himself from a few races at least in the house and senate just because his brand brings such toxicity to the republican brand. i mean, you re looking at arizona where there s an open seat with jeff flake and you re looking at nevada. those two seats are viable for republicans maintaining control of the senate and if trump has anything to do with those races
the strategy is republicans working with democrats. watch. one thing i can say about this year, it was pretty partisan. it s not much you can do on a partisan basis in the senate at 51-49 which would be the number for us next year. i don t think most of our democratic colleagues want to do nothing, and there are areas i think where we can get a partisan agreement. all right. our panel back with me right now. let me start with you and specifically on the effort going into 2018 midterms, legislatively, republican said running with the wind if their face and it s not a normal breeze. it s a hurricane force wind. are democrats willing to gifz a win or cooperate with republicans heading into
the focus for a lot of republicans on the hill now is investigating fbi officials and investigating the institution as far as doj and the fbi. it is a huge shift because you remember when mueller was appointed you heard people on both sides, democrats and republicans saying great choice, this is a great man. he s a serious honest professional. we can trust him and there has certainly been a shift and i find it interesting because republicans often complain that tax on law enforcement and such undermine those institutions and i wonder how much damage are they doing right now to institutions like the fbi by implying that the place is full of unprofessional hacks who aren t doing their jobs. now, you might have one or two people who made some bad judgments of course but the vast majority of people working in that institution are doing their job and doing it well. what do you make of republicans in the white house strategy here to really go on attack as it relates to the