Rose welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about President Trumps first 100 days. Joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. If you look at these hundred days, i think theres a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. Matthew and i both eluded to earlier, hes got bad numbers. The president has the toolbox. If you are popular you can pressure the congress. He doesnt have that. Hes backed into one part of the Republican Party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the Freedom Caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough Public Policy program am but he is running out of tools. And thats a problem. Rose we continue with Clarissa Ward Senior International correspondent for cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghani
Rose welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about President Trumps first 100 days. Joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. If you look at these hundred days, i think theres a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. Matthew and i both eluded to earlier, hes got bad numbers. The president has the toolbox. If you are popular you can pressure the congress. He doesnt have that. Hes backed into one part of the Republican Party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the Freedom Caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough Public Policy program am but he is running out of tools. And thats a problem. Rose we continue with Clarissa Ward Senior International correspondent for cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghani
Cnn. Having spent time in iraq an afghanistan and gazza i know and have seen first hand the horrors of war and all people from all Different Countries and all different war zones are, of course, victims and suffering enormously. But there is something unique to the Syrian Crisis to both the david and goliath kind of element to it. Whereby you have a civilian population being bombarded from the skies, relentlessly. Where the rebel fighters do not have anything like the same kind of firepower that the russians and the regime and the iranians and hezbollah have when put together. So and to see hospitals targeted, to see Fruit Markets targeted, to see schools targeted, there is a cynicism to the syrian war that really is particularly haunting to me. Rose and we conclude this evening with author and new yorker columnist calvin trillin. I cant remember when pictures were introduced in the new yorker but a the lo of these store hees were written before there were photographs, and before there
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Changed. Inre was less and less room the Republican Party for moderates like me and into doesnt six, they had a primary because republicans didnt think they wanted a liberal moderate republican and i won the primary but issues were changing and prochoice. The priorities change in the Republican Party. The issues. Ought up Climate Change come economy, foreign policy. What do you think is the most important issue and challenge that will face the next president . Mr. Chafee i think these endless wars overseas. When made a huge mistake of taking down Saddam Hussein and getting into iraq. My feeling was we just finished the nominal of those veteran issues and the evidence was not there to do it. Now, we have to fix it and thats the biggest challenge. We just have to end this for future generations. Thats my view. The refugees fleeing these wartorn countries are potentially stabilizing for europe. Thats when you say what are the big priorities . Of course, the economy and building the middle