ask your doctor about lyrica. if you re eligible, you could pay as little as $25 a month. there are times when you have to wonder why anyone would want to be president of the united states. exhibit a, george bush. it s one of the tragedies of the american system that presidents feel they need to be reelected to prove their legacy. that the first election wasn t a fluke. for republicans, what a difference a year makes.
in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. there are times when you have to wonder why anyone in his or her right mind would want to be president of the united states. exhibit a, george bush. it s one of the tragedies of the american system that presidents feel they need to be reelected to prove their legacy. that the first election wasn t a fluke. for republicans, what a difference a year makes. 365 days ago, president bush s popularity was at an all-time high. after the gulf war, people
he s always operated that way. bob was talking about how he feels like an outsider in this government. he felt like an outsider in new york real estate, even as he was making deals and building bright, shiny, tall towers. that s how he works. he needs somebody to fight against. he needs somebody to punch in order to feel like he has made it in some way. and he s going to do this in the white house. for as long as he is in the white house. there will always be somebody who is not praising him enough, or is critical of him. so when the fbi has an investigation against him, on his campaign, what s going on with russia last year, he s going to criticize the fbi. criticize the doj in order to undercut the credibility. if he feels aggrieved, he is going to punch back. he s going to do that with everybody that goes against him in his mind. if that s the press being critical of his policies or fact checking him or calling what he says not true, he ll go after the press. it doesn t matter who y
it s successful. it puts other countries off their game. so i think we have to bear in mind, what we may see as disruptive and unsuccessful, he probably sees differently. i just want to know, like hagar, i think for the president to stand with the people of iran in this period when they re out in the streets, i think that s good. i think you would want an american president to do that. trump could go too far in how he expresses it, but i think the fact that he s in solidarity with them, he says the world is watching, that s what he should say. david ignatius and hagar, it s a conversation we ll probably return to at some point this year. president trump, meanwhile, has a busy to-do list for the new year, but will 2018 be the year democrats take control of congress. that is ahead. you re watching hardball. dad! dad!!! can you drive me to jessica s house?
we don t know yet. we ll try to find out. reporting-wise, in terms of who, if anyone, he consulted before tweeting this. but that is one of the unknowns of the president s twitter account and one of the things he loves so much about it, he feels it keeps america s allies and adversaries alike on their toes. he has i think he tweeted in the last few days, sometime in the recent past. there s this clip of bill clinton when he was president in 1993 publicly making a threat to north korea, basically we have the ability to wipe you out, so don t mess with us. i think the message turnover was trying to send was,fy send a tweet like i just sent, it is not the message is not necessarily one that presidents haven t delivered in the past. that doesn t make it okay today. and i think that what i was trying to say is not that president trump is this person. i agree with you, that this is this person, we should be expect these kinds of tweets from him. i don t think that we should normali