nations security council and the president was lauding those sanctions. we have to remember that those haven t had time to take effect, haven t had time to be enforced so it s worth waiting to see what happens there as well. we re not used to seeing the president be the kind of person who ratchets things up. you re used to seeing a president calm, saying we ve got this under control, we re not going to let kim jong-un get away with xy and z but we re used to strategic patience. what we have here is kind of a reversal of roles here where you see the president being a saber rattler here back to kim, and you have his secretary of state the other day trying to kind of ratchet it down. i think it s a little disorienting in a way for lots of people, including people in congress who worry about it.
sort of discount for things that come out of trump s mouth, right. why? why is that fair? why is that appropriate? i think it s a coping mechanism to be honest with you. do you follow the twitter feed of the guy who converts trump s tweets into official white house statements on the stationery? i do. it s compelling. you can t look away, because we have built in a discount for those tweets because we ourselves can t believe that someone is acting this way. and so when he makes this sort of joke from the podium, we kind of, that s just trump being trump and we don t take it seriously. i think that the wall street journal piece is really important. how? we see for the first time at least i see concrete possibly, concrete connection between the trump campaign and the russian hackers and mike flynn is at the heart of it. smith is working in some ways in relationship with flynn in order to get the e-mails, in order to do xy and z. if there is a kind of pathway to
quick fixes. what is a quick fix is to say president obama did xy and z and i m erasing it. he s going to do a series of those. that to his base is a positive thing. i said i thought the speech which everybody else was thought was gloomy, i thought it was an important speech to his base. he stood up and said this is what i said on the campaign trail, i m sitting in front of 1,600 most important people in washington, d.c., and i m not talking to them, i m talking to you and these are the promises i make. the executive orders are something he can do. 10,000 jobs, 15,000 jobs roo it now is important. van? the keystone pipeline has never been understood by either side. first of all, you re talking about 5,000 construction jobs, temporary, you have to multily up to 30,000 temp rare, 30 jobs permanent, most in canada. this is not some big jobs creator. problem is it s not a pipeline for oil. people say you have oil pipelines all over the place, why are you upset? it s a pipeline for the
geithner. happens every four years. bipartisan amnesia. one of the headlines is how few nominees have talked about major policy issues with donald trump. most fascinating. stunning. you had rex tillerson saying he never had an in-depth conversation with the president-elect on russia. you had price who s being nominated for hhs saying he hadn t recently talked to the president about what he intends to do with social security, medicare, medicaid. nikki haley saying they hadn t had the conversation about russia and china. my question is, is this about their own credibility or is this about giving donald trump some deniability when he says we never had that conversation and here s how i feel about xy and
sure, bob dole s find, but now there s this extra twist of saying what do you think of donald trump and his comments on women? what do you think about us saying he s not going to accept the results of the election, what do you think about xy and z. so there s the additional drag of being forced to answer about donald trump, in all of these appearances. has the top of the ticket, james, ever mattered so much in a positive way or negative way than with donald trump this time around? i think that you know there are such things as waive elections in 1964, lyndon johnson, he swept barry go goldwater, and had a grasp, on the congress, and beat george mcgovernor very badly by nixon it. probably matters more in differently nowace voti as voti general has become more partisan it. used to be there was ticket splitting, so people are more