a long time. the more opened, the better. that s view of others who have tangled with this. did you hear lanny davis on the the beat to decide this will get done or not. i think it was unequivocal. he pointed out he was a criminal defense lawyer. if you are a prosecutor, you don t want cohen to testify. you never like to see someone you might have as to put on the witness stand in a trial of your own giving testimony in another forum, particularly here, a risky one. are you suggesting this may be one of the only issues that donald trump and bob mueller agree on in this probe tonight? i think we might have found the core agreement. the overlap is narrow. it involves trump not having to have the world see whatever it is, because we don t actually know whatever it is michael cohen would say? you know, that s right. ultimately, mueller will win here. this testimony will come out in one form or another, maybe when
let s walk through the christmas list of what vladimir putin has wanted for the last ten years in the west. donald trump has actively done the bidding that vladimir putin has wanted. he s undermined nato in a very significant way. martha: how has he done that? he pushed them to add 35 to $40 billion in defense spending in nato. let s talk about, number one, but the president to say we wouldn t have come to the defense like a country with montenegro if it was too small and we didn t want to do so. that s the very core agreement of nato. martha: david, you are shaking your head. i m going to go one by one here. the leaders of the nato countries said that he undermined it. martha: david do you want to weigh in on that? barack obama allowed the russians to metal. barack obama allowed them to invade crimea.
the federal government was the core agreement at the time of the framing. i want to say this, i read your taft book i think it s excellent. there s a role reversal of our two parties in terms of who are the protectionists. yes. it s remarkable that president taft tried to lower the tariffs to increase corporate taxes and to balance the budget. the republicans before him had been the protectionist party. he set the gop down a path toward free trade that prevailed until the 2016 election. i argue that taft was the most judicial president and presidential chief justice trying to defend the office against new populist threats represented by wilson and roosevelt that we are seeing resurrected in america today. so he can teach us a lot about the current vexations. all i remembered is he s the one who never wanted to be president. jeffrey, thank you.
or do you think that this is a stunning win in a southern state that nobody expected. do you think the winds are strong enough that those divisions are not going to matter? i think that any functional party has people within it who are unified on the values but have different ideas about how to get there. that s not a bad thing. it s okay. we had a great community process last week and came out with a lot of core agreement that those unity commissioned ideas are going to go to the rules committee and i believe we re going to come out with a stronger, more transparent, more open, more delicate and voter focused than ever. we put a lot of money and trained people on the ground in virginia and also we re proud of getting making history in a lot of places with all of the delegates that were elected to the house of delegates in virginia. we really went down ballot, kasie. we didn t win the top ticket.
it s okay. we had a great community process last week and came out with a lot of core agreement that those unity commissioned ideas are going to go to the rules committee and i believe we re going to come out with a stronger, more transparent, more open, more delicate and voter focused than ever. we put a lot of money and trained people on the ground in virginia and also we re proud of getting making history in a lot of places with all of the delegates that were elected to the house of delegates in virginia. we really went down ballot, kasie. we didn t win the top ticket. we went down ballot and we re