on the state, on the local, and on the national level. donald trump, will he move up beyond 42%. that s what i m saying. no. the responsibility on donald trump is to be bigger and more gracious and reach out to everybody. that s what i believe. the question is, donald trump could have given a speech that could have been more gracious to hillary clinton and everybody else and he would have gone up 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 percentage ratings. he debate, idn t, so he won t. if democrats want to beat republicans, they are going to have to do a better job converting independents and republicans to their side. i guess what you re saying no particular theme to the march i wouldn t say that. the theme was about women s empowerment but it was a party that was closed off to people who were pro-choice people
president who, as we ve said many times during the campaign, became a republican about two years ago. so some of the things he believes, this is just the first example on day three, will go against everything republicans who are working with him right now in congress believe about the way the country should be run. we all everybody got a lot of things wrong throughout the year about what was doing to happen. there was no way you could predict what was doing to happen. one thing most of us said from the very beginning was if you had trump as republican nominee, it was going to shake up the electoral map. if ted cruz won i could tell you which 54 electoral votes he was going to win. donald trump, we said it, the obama people said it, everybody said it, it shakes up the electoral map. that meeting yesterday, for everybody that thinks donald trump is bumbling into this, wisconsin, a state republicans hadn t won since 1984, that was about michigan, the state republicans hadn t won did
i ve been saying for 30 years i m for free trade but i want fair trade as well. i think the mistake we ve made as a country is we ve had economists who told us we have to bow at the altar of unfettered free trade without asking questions. people might say i m sucking up to donald trump, you re extraordinarily stupid. let me finish. can i finish? can we get ross perot. can i finish? measure. you are telling me this morning to be measured. absolutely. can we get tape from the end of the last hour, alex? what was the question? so what i said when i first got in congress in 1930 was, 30 years ago in 1994 was you want to have fair trade, and you have to be skeptical about every trade deal you go into with the goal of having free trade at the end of the day. we have not asked the tough
they have been completely set back 20 years because of this administration. he could have fixed a lot with his words, with his actions and with the plans that he has inside this administration that i know about, okay, so it s there. they can t even address it. that s arrogant. that s mean. that makes me want to go march even more. you go, girl. so you have to stop looking at it politically in des moines and all that. that s bs. you have to let me do my job. go ahead. let me tell you what my job is. do your job. my job is to tell people what s going to happen in the future. that s fine. i disagree. this conversation started with you asking why donald trump couldn t do that. that s how you ended it. what could he have done? all i said was that s not what friday and saturday was about. friday and saturday, let those who have ears to hear hear, what friday and saturday was about were both sides talking to
you kept oil you wouldn t have isis, because that s where they made their money in the first place so we should have kept the oil. okay. maybe you ll have another chance. you unequivocally state this administration will not send more troops into iraq to, as the president puts it, take the oil. i m not going to talk about what we may or may not do. president the is clear he doesn t telegraph forward taking options off the table. that s not a good negotiating skill. that s not how he works. there s a reason he s been successful negotiating, he does it in a way that doesn t telegraph to people what he takes on or off the table. secretary robert gates, his book a passion for leadership is now out in paper back. mr. secretary, thank you so much for being here. obviously too early to assess this president. that was quite a disturbing saturd saturday. what is your take, first of all, on donald trump s cabinet picks