As president coolidge was pretty widely liked, he was overseeing a pretty good economy, running basically as an incumbent to try to hold on to the seat. And the democrats knew that coolidge was going to be hard to but the democrats headed into their convention that year in the hot summer of 19th 24 intending to pick somebody to run against coolidge and they at least felt like they had a couple of good candidates to choose between. This is a time when they choose their nominees at the big meeting of the national party. When the democrats converged in new york city the summer of 1924 they knew they had two front runners, one a democrat named al smith. Who was very popular, he was governor of new york at the time. His chief rival for the nomination that year was a guy named william goes by mcadoo. He was originally from tennessee, ultimately became a senator from california in the Woodrow Wilson administration. He was secretary of the treasury and he pulled off the major coup of marrying
Brought here, no fault of their own. So were working on a plan, well see how it works out. Were already starting the wall. The wall is being renovated because we have vast amounts of wall. The wall is being fully renovated right now as you know. We have to have anxiohave an ung that there in the budget or another vehicle, the equal will be funded otherwise were not doing anything. Daca in our and the wall very soon. Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy. Forget donald the deal maker are on even trump the independent. How about donald trump the weather vane . Trump was all over the place this week taking nearly every possible position on immigration and Border Security. The flipflop started with a deal wednesday night with trumps new besties, chuck and nancy. The trio reportedly agreed on a deal to secure legal status for nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children in exchange for Border Security measures, but no wall. Trumps back and forth from daca
Plus figure it out. President trump refuses to say whether he will fire Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. You figure that one out. How would that move affect the russia probe which rosenstein supervises . Senator dick durbin responds, in moments. And super bowl sunday. The brash underdog versus established juggernaut. Sound familiar . Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is ready for some football, as americans wait for the eagles and the patriots to face off in the super bowl, President Trump is facing off with his own National Security community leaders. The president spent saturday golfing and complaining on twitter that nobodys talking about his great jobs numbers, only russia, russia, russia. He also used twitter to declare himself cleared in the ongoing russia investigation after the release of a republican fourpage memo alleging the fbi abused its surveillance tools before and after the 2016 election. He wrote, this memo totally vindicates trump
Theyre not coming into our country. What the president said there on the south lawn, the fact that he said it on a way to a Campaign Appearance in florida is no accident. Both the Migrant Caravan and Citizenship Question are hot button issues for his base. With just six days to Midterm Election, hes chosen to make them the twin pillars of his Closing Argument to voters, which of course hes entitled to do. Hes even entitled to push hot buttons and hes even entitled i suppose to make stuff up. Keeping them hop honest, thats what hes doing. What he cant do is escape scrutiny over what hes doing. Today, each as he raised the specter of a Foreign Invasion to the kind of level requiring more than a divisions worth of military firepower, funerals were being held in pittsburgh for three of the 11 Jewish Americans slaughtered by a gunman who was driven by antisemitism and hate and anger over those very same migrants the president has been focusing on. Joyce fienberg was buried, her funeral toda
Is enshrined in the constitution with just a stroke of the pen. Before we go any further, we should point out he cannot. More on that in a second. He also said he may order as many as 15,000 active duty troops to the border with mexico. Thats 1,000 more than are deployed in afghanistan. The reason, he says, is the threat from a group of poor Central American migrants, now about 1,000 miles away and coming on foot to seek asylum. Its a dangerous group of people. Theyre not coming into our country. What the president said there on the south lawn, the fact that he said it on a way to a Campaign Appearance in florida is no accident. Both the Migrant Caravan and Citizenship Question are hot button issues for his base. With just six days to Midterm Election, hes chosen to make them the twin pillars of his Closing Argument to voters, which of course hes entitled to do. Hes even entitled to push hot buttons and hes even entitled i suppose to make stuff up. Keeping them honest, thats what hes d