Closer to six. Yeah, someone just said, shes far worse for the country than we thought you see, nobody knows who spent it. I heard it was 9. I heard it was 5. 7, then it was nine. In this business they trace it. Close to 9 million. The reason is you dont have to give any papers. Its illegal from a campaign standpoint, financing standpoint. The whole russia thing seems to have turned around. What do you think, sarah . Absolutely. Latest news cycle appears to be taking a toll according to polling analyst. There have been eight live poles in the last few weeks showing the president s Approval Rating in some cases falling to 40 . Im joined by anita kumar, correspondent for mcclatchy. The white house is positioned on the woodwork seems to be that the press is obsessed with it but they want to talk about it all the time. There is no person obsessed about Bob Woodwards book and the oped than donald j. Trump. As axios first reported and the daily beast can confirm, the president has privately fuming about his former senior aids and officials, his top economics advising reporter and robert porter, the staff secretary, both of whom apparently served as big sources for the bob Woodward Book. This is another instance of the president of the United States, four members of his inner sickle, at least according to the president of the united
states, turning on him. Its sending him into a advertise i someone reported the staff in the white house is working hard to focus the president s attention on the Hurricane Bearing down on the carolina coast which his Grave Obsession has been with the Woodward Book and the oped. Yes, the white house staff is in a balancing act. They want to and they need to because hes the president of the United States, okay, we were understand you are youre upset about this. You want to know who wrote the oped, you want to know more about the Woodward Book. At the same time they want to move it so things are moving forward. Looking ford to the mid terms, other thing. They have to appease him a little bit and move the ball forward thats why you havent seen an investigation. The president talked about there should be a investigation and he thinks the Department Of Justice should do that. We havent heard an announcement about that. Ive heard from inside the white house there is not a big action, the president wanting to know this. When she was pressed to name one law that was broken to start the investigation, she obviously couldnt name one. Yeah, and this is yet another chapter in the long book and saga of how seemingly the entirety of the white house or the very least its powerful influential and messaging Coms Operation is wrapped around amplifying and placating the very specific grievances and public feuds of president donald trump. Which hamstrings them. If the president goes off the rails and says something wildly untrue, they have to wrap their messaging operation around it and work from that scratch. And there is no other way they can really do their jobs. Anita, you know, i think anyone who has ben bernanke paying careful attention and
leave him no matter what, which ignores there are marginal voters, there are persuadable folks. The margins matter. It does appear the last few weeks have hurt his standing with the american electoral. I wonder if the white house recognizes that. Oh, they absolutely recognize it. And the place where that fear manifests itself most palpably in trumps west wing operation is his political operation, such as john dee step yo their main job is to see the 28 mid terms right now, the reason the democrats could very well take back the house if not the senate this year is because of a Grand Antipathy towards donald trump and how that is absolutely galvanizing and energizing the democratic as it rant been for many years. So despite all the blufter and pr and how they are be sweating the 2018 mid terms, you can bet
they are fearing a slaughter. Blood bath comes up frequently when you can talk to these people inside the house. Thank you for your time. Thank you. For more on the book and what it means, staff writer for slate. And chris lou former cabinet secretary under president obama. You read and review the book. The thesis was if you think adults are in charge behind the scenes, were screwed. Yeah. I amanda thats the take away from me what type of president this is, what is revealed on twitter every day. The adults in the room, john kelly, james mattis, secretary of defense, are for reasons not
really protecting us. I think there are a number of Different Reasons why thats the case. One is that in the case of someone like kelly, he agrees with the president , done a lot of things. He doesnt seem to particularly like immigrants or the media. In the case of someone like mattis, he i think is probably much more serious and adult person than the president. But has no reading of the president and how to constrict his behavior in case he you come away from the book feeling like there is nobody out there protecting us. Part of the problem, chris, you worked in the white house and the obama administration. The president is going to be the president. This idea thats emerged as articulated in the oped and articulated by sources of bob woodward, this group of people be a sort of rubber room to insulate us from whatever manic fits the Commander In Chief has, that he still is the president
of the United States. There is no replacing that. Well, thats exactly right, you know, dup has never been frtly good in this case it would serve him well to do that. Every of every day he continues to tweet and harp on bob woodward. Its a selfafflicted wound. And even when heing talks about the economy, he got the numbers all wrong. He tweeted earlier today the Unemployment Rate is the highest its been. Higher than in 2006. Even fox news did a fact check on him. If you want to know about the chaos in white house, you look at the tweets, you look at the omarosa tapes, this is a person who rambles, jumps from topic to topic, who has a disregard from the truth, and embraces conspiracy theories. You have staffers like Sarah Sanders who are enabling him. Isaac, a lot of people are waiting for the other shoe to droop in terms of crisis, in terms of some big cataclysm. What do you say to people, well, look, the economy is doing pretty well, and things are humming along. Maybe its a comport himself in various ways as in these documents and were still standing. Yes, were definite it nifty still standing. Some bad things have happened. Things have happened that are unacceptable. I think the American Government chugs along and things get dealt with in some manner. But, again, you know, you look at the response to puerto rico, to the hurricane there. The number of people who died. Bad things are happening. I mean, yes, the country is not going to collapse on itself, but, you know, this is not a good situation. And, chris, the puerto rico is 3,000 people were left to die under this president s watch. There has been no sustained investigation. There is a hurricane called florence that could be the worst to hit that area. Now is the time for some type of president ial focus. Right, government is hard. Its a simple blocking and tackling when you have a Natural Disaster like a hurricane. And what you saw in puerto rico is that when you have a president who has an inattention to details, who doesnt understand the mechanics of government, he fails. He even failed to the optics. Remember when he went down to puerto rico, hes lobbing the paper towels into the crowd. He is applauding the fact that only a couple piece died. It was worse than what katrina was. This is a president who doesnt
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popularity versus the popularity when you look at the way independent moderate voters and especially collegeeducated women are breaking away from the republicans, i would add two groups to that group also. That would be young people as well as Minority Voters who we saw pull back from the elections in 2016 and sit home or vote thirdparty. Obama is someone who can bring that energy and speak to those people, those groups in a way that no other democrat can because, chris, we talked about this before, if democrats have the 2010, the midterm 2010, 2014 ee lancaster ral, its not going to be a good year. If we see an electorate younger more diverse, its going to be a good year. Obama can speak to that. He speaks to the moderate middle swath of the electorate. Obama won back to back majorities. A lot of that was winning moderate voters. He won by 16 votes in 2012. Dave, weve been watching President Trump go to these red states he won by 20, 30 points and campaign for the republican candidate in senate, west virginia, dakota, montana. It strikes me there are democrats up for grabs. If youre the incumbent there, Barbara Comstock in virginia. You dont want president obama to campaign for you. The speeches he is giving in twrorn an faces obama voters largely state home. He can get those swing voters who wish obama was president. Those swing voters dont care about omarosa or the oped or many things talked about frequently on this network. They still care about Health Care Premiums and their take home pay. I can i think where obama excels is is in talking about how republican legislation can impact voters directly. And i think to daves point, there were seven candidates at that rally. Not a single one an incumbent politician which is a fascinating thing were seeing in a lot of people running for office for the first time. Generally those messages out. They are about Health Care Premiums and take home pay. If you look at where theyre spending their dollars its around health care. That is an issue front and center for a lot of these middle class, suburban voters. Their premium is going up. Its a clear contrast with democrats who want to build and expand and reform the aca and republicans have been voting to repeal it. I can tell you its a message ive tested a couple times. For democratss it hard to meet that message. Donald trump is doing all the damage we need all by himself. Yeah, no one has to run ads about that, Dave Wasser Man and dave belcher. Thank you for joining us. We have a lot more from the irish pub here in ann arbor, michigan. A judge ruled he must go under oath about his Sexual Assault of a former apprentice contestant. This is a very big deal and what we could learn next. In 2017,
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