axios headquarters by mike allen, founder and editor at axios. appreciate your time. allen a nt to ask mike question about reporting or how he does his job, now is the time. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. mike allen, let s jump right headline from our less than two hours ago. why trump can t get congress to he wants. why can t he? ller: guest: first, thank you for having sked axios, love c-span here today. your colleagues have been great, super fun day and thank you for have gotten a u great sense of the subject experts axios deploys everyday. the president will have trouble they don t fear him and feel like they don t need him. focused dent has been on his base and his standing ith his people has turned out to be incredibly durable. your viewers saw polls around 100 days. of members feel like they re doing more for him than them.oing for nd fear goes a long way in journalism and t.v. and politics and life. at the moment, these
40,000 of those were combat troops and another 160,000 did mainly labor. the folks who roll home about their experiences from the labor battalion and from combat units talk about two things. the talk about the difficulty of fighting for democracy in a jim crow army. and they talk about the investments of many of their fellow white soldiers and making sure that they do not have rising expectations for their own citizenship rights after world war i. they also talk a lot about how france has opened up the world for them in a variety of different ways. their experience with french people fighting alongside the colonial troops of color, for a segment that was given over to the french army for this duration of the war, fighting under commanders who do not have the same kind of investment in american white supremacy, it often made them realize that the world could be, and in some places was very different from the racial system and orders of power that they had to experience for mos
q and a. now senator chris murphy holds a town hall. this is about one hour and a half. [applause] thank you. sit down. sit down. thank you, everybody. that is very nice. cold and thatve makes the feel better today. i feel more well with that nice introduction. d which and i say and that covers it. thank all of the folks who are here, you are doing a fantastic job every single day bringing educational opportunities to kids and adults here in stamford. thank you for opening this up to your representatives. thank you for being here, i want ofget right to the meat this. i am sure you have loads of questions about what is happening and about what has happened. we are going to talk about it a lot of things. i think we are going to talk about the rule of law. [applause] about theng to talk very simple idea that has been at the root of this country sense the founding that no individual no matter who powerful how powerful and what title stand before their are governed by the s
how wrong they are, frankly. i don t see a lot of similarities in terms of depth between donald trump and andrew jackson. host: really, not a thing? guest: i m not saying there are not some similarities. care,ave both got great of course. a lot of comparisons try to push trump into this box with jackson, and it is not a viable comparison in my opinion. host: that is a picture a painting in the oval office he put up. why do you think he did that? guest: steve bannon convinced him to do that, i think. i don t think trump has any clue as to who jackson was before he became president, or maybe he had some clue. there and someone afterwards said that trump studied jackson and new all about him before he became president, modeled his campaign after jackson. i just had to shake my head. i don t think trump has a good idea of who jackson is. host: when did you first get interested in and jackson and why? guest: i was an undergraduate at cumberland university. i had a professor, one
keith: hello and welcome to our look back at the u.k. 56 parliament. alicia: it was the shortest par limit for 46 years, just two years long. alicia: although short, there was enough people and politics. keith: two years ago, we had different leaders. the uk was a solid member of the european union and the brexit word had yet to be invented. as i once said, i was the future once. [laughter] keith: alicia: new people at the top. accordance with the wishes of the people, we are leaving the european union. they hold our values in contempt. they hold our values of tolerance and decency in contempt. alicia: a new approach to prime minister s questions. maureen wrote to me this week, and she writes with a heavy heart, we have been treated disgustingly. alicia: and robust exchanges at westminster committees. would i do that again? no. am i sorry i didn t? yes. alicia: you could have predicted the events lay in store as opening of parliament went ahead on may 20 7, 2015. it