how many titles do you have? i remember in one of the many briefings that cram so much information before the election, i remember hearing that if they get 35, 37, the democrats should be overjoyed. they re at 39. they could get 40. how is that not a whooping, brother? chris, as you know, let s look at history, right? historically, every president, every president in the midterms has lost big seats, big numbers. look not everyone. every president but two in modern history. and trump could have been like them. go ahead. they were two war-type presidents. that s an otherwise pretty standard scale there. look, all the punditry, the chattering class in washington and around the world that
information before the election, i remember hearing that if they get 35, 37, the democrats should be i don t ever joinoverjoyed. how is that not a whooping, brother? chris, as you know, let s look at history, right? historically every president, every president in the midterms has lost big seats, big numbers. look not everyone. every president but two in modern history. and trump could have been like them. go ahead. they were two war-type presidents. post-9/11 is when you lost seats. that s an otherwise pretty standard scale there. look, all the pundit tri-the chattering class in washington and around the world that examines these things all predicted between 35 and 45 seat
building a wartime cabinet. that s part of what s going on right now in terms of the shuffling. is scaramucci part of that? i think anthony is a guy that the president likes, has a great deal of confidence in. was on the team early, great-looking guy, big head of hair and engage and pleasure to watch as a smart guy. the president trusts him, likes him. and i don t think he s building a war-type guy but putting in some new players. sean spicer, like the guy. known him for a long time. anthony brings a different skillset to the table. he s a happy warrior. i did have to note, though, the tweets that he had before. if you told me the president was going to point head of communications who was pro-choice, anti-gun, pro gay marriage who praised hillary clinton and callanti-wall, you ,
isn t it interesting the president has always rhetorically overreached. always. absolutely. assad must go gadhafi must go, everybody must go also iran should not have any nuke program whatsoever. don t forget that one. and it s the rhetoric he gets caught up in it s funny, like on one hand he wants to criticize he s been critical of neoconservatives and their sort of rush to war type of rhetoric and things like that. his rhetoric sometimes sounds very similar. the policy is very different, but it s almost as if he s afraid to sell the idea of containment or stability. and you know what, there is a lot of americans that are pro containment by the way. which is sort of you know what keep that mess over there. jeffrey, you re a foreign policy guy. maybe you can help with the question of arming the kudrd.
president obama was visiting at the time just 10 minutes away. authorities rushing to the scene and helicopters overhead and they were not sure what was going on. it seems it started with a house fire about a mile away. we understand that it could have been his father and his brother that lived in the house that caught fire. we don t have confirmation from the authorities that we are expecting that possibly in the next couple hours. his name has not been released. he is described as white and between 20 and 25. witnesses say he was carrying an ar15 assault rifle and he had a handgun and a belt of ammo around him and some sort of vest. he was dressed from head to toe in black. we spoke to one witness who saw him and this is how he described him. take a listen. like you are ready to go to war type of thing, you know? he had the helmet and a bulletproof vest and then he had like he had like a jacket and he had pants and