cheney, whether that s with adam kinzinger, whether it would have been with gonzalez. i think that given his weakening hold on social media, given the fact that he s no longer president of the united states and has the all the acute pres think his grip is loosening up and based on the dynamics of the house and senate and where we are in the cycle, but i don t think his hand is strengthening. i think it will take an economic downturn which we re not far from to really sort of exorcise him and what he stood for, but you re right. we re in a weird and curious spot. well, the proof for me, you ve always been a policy guy which is why i enjoy our conversations. people at home can agree or disagree with you. you ve always been a policy guy. the proof to me if the fever has broken is if leading republicans would stand up to trump about
thought this was interesting, bill maher said this on chris matthews yesterday, he has been wall-to-wall coverage on most networks. and, you know, whether it s bad coverage or good coverage or assessing his i mean, he is even more of a household name than he was before in terms of potential republican contender. i m not saying it s a positive benefit, but it doesn t hurt to have his name out there, and it is covered so vastly that it shows how serious a contender he is to an extent. the other thing, and i m so glad you raised this, because this to me is the most interesting. he is having his moment to sort of exorcise all of these demons in full view of the media, if he decides to run for president, and if he survives the brutal republican primary process. he will be able to say to everyone that this issue was exhausted. this issue was beaten to death. that the national media will pay
demonized, they may not refer to it that way, in all parts of the world. every culture has their idea of evil. even though scripture says in genesis that we re not suppose today eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, god and devil, i like to interpret that good as evil or god, even like we re having disasters in biblical proportion. the association with the bible and terrible disasters or nature and terrible disasters or spirit possession when a person s possessed by devils or demons or demonized in their thinking, they go to church or a priest or they want somebody to wave a cross over them or oil, in other cultures they might go to the medicine man or to the witch doctor per se to exorcise, cast out, that particular perception of a demon or darkness or
and a man accused of beating up a priest. it looks like an open and shut case. until you look closer. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, capitol hill s dangerous game of jenga. we re going to play in a moment. let me explain. we came across a report today that, frankly, made us roll our eyes. i said the word vile out loud. here was the line. quote, congress said to delay automatic budget cuts until march. in other words, congress is now trying to get out of its self-imposed deadline of january 1st. that is when our leaders in washington either have to find ways to cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion or face automatic across-the-board spending cuts equal to that amount. now, those automatic cuts are designed to hit in the worst places. places that you would not make quick cuts to solve the spending problem. poorly designed, on purpose. bipartisan reports say those cuts could cost over 1 million american jobs. but instead of that