Running things. Something should happen. Martha you can see the evolution on this tonight on this day 77. The commander in chief now being presented tonight with the military option by his secretary of defense, general mattis, and has Diplomatic Options by his secretary of state, mr. Tillerson. Both individuals, who in recent times, have seem to be somewhat on the sidelines. They are both in front and center, as the west wing dynamics have gone through some big changes. Martha good evening, welcome to the first 100 days i am martha maccallum. All this while the president has a meeting that he has wanted for decades, and that meeting is happening as we speak, the pictures just moments ago. Mr. Trump has railed against chinas unfair trade practices for years as a businessman. Now, as president , he can take action. But the threat from north korea, chinas aggression in the region, makes this now a game of highstakes poker. President xi and his wife arriving in florida, followed moments la
from a democrats point of view, they had a nominee, merrick garland, s not only highly qualified, he was a consensus pick and confirmed and so many offices by republicans that he was denied the opportunity. martha: gorsuch has the same description. i don t doubt that you could argue that bashar gorsuch was d but garland was distinguishing his position. i wanted to pick on something dash go martha: that is why they didn t vote for him? the point was that they denied. this is the power the point i wanted to pick up. this is the power of obstruction. the republicans obstructed president obama s nominee, i think jeff merkley of oregon called at the theft of the century. you have a situation where david is saying, going forward, you can have a 7-2 conservative republican majority. what that says to you, martha,