ben rhodes, he is the former taxpayer funded white house fiction writer. that s what his job was to create a narrative of the obama foreign policy to best sell for domestic politics. that was his title then. now he is just a former. ed: i hear you, congressman, ben rhodes would say no it was not fiction. i guess we are trying to figure out we know the past. what s the future? what s this congress? because we have been talking about this for a couple of years, what can you actually do about it. so we need the assistance of the administration with a new administration. i mean, congress has a couple of main functions. one is oversight. the house foreign affairs committee conducting hearings and bringing fackets to life as it relates to what was just referenced with secret side deals between the iaea and iran the verification agreement and stories about how iran collecting some of their own soil samples or inspecting their own nuclear sites. you know, so when the house foreign affairs co
what used to be syria and iraq and the middle east. and we need to think about how to e4reu78 nate isis in a way that minimizes the upside impact for assad, for hezbollah. for the baghdad regime and for iran. so this strike against assad s regime i think is very important for the beginning of constructing the post isis middle east. i think for the larger world i couldn t imagine anything being more convenient than this strike occurring while president trump was having dinner with president xi jinping. pete: certainly sends adversary. they play by the rules and they won t in this instance. whether it s the assad regime or the russians pushes out propaganda saying the u.s. killed civilians, they were reckless. this is an overreach. how do we win the narrative on this to keep it exactly where we want it. fackets are always helpful. we gave them advanced warning. we targeted a military base that we believed was the source of the strike that used
great nation with our great resources today one in eight americans 40% of americans born today are born to families eligible for medicaid. the idea that you can ask the american people to balance this budget on the fackets backs of the ugly and the most vulnerable with no burden through tax reform on the most fortunate americans is fundamentally unacceptable. it s not going to happen. they knew it it s not going to become law. we have made so much progress over the last four months with republicans and trying to build consensus for a more balanced approach i give the speaker a lot of credit for that. let s turn in the time we have left for the economy. last august you wrote op. ed article in the new york times and the headline as you can see there is welcome to the recovery. that was not our headline. that was the new york times headline. deeply unfair to the substance of what i wrote. chris: here is what you did say. put it up on the screen if you can what you did say is we
remember, this country, this great nation with our great resources today one in eight americans 40% of americans born today are born to families eligible for medicaid. the idea that you can ask the american people to balance this budget on the fackets backs of the ugly and the most vulnerable with no burden through tax reform on the most fortunate americans is fundamentally unacceptable. it s not going to happen. they knew it it s not going to become law. we have made so much progress over the last four months with republicans and trying to build consensus for a more balanced approach i give the speaker a lot of credit for that. let s turn in the time we have left for the economy. last august you wrote op. ed article in the new york times and the headline as you can see there is welcome to the recovery. that was not our headline. that was the new york times headline. deeply unfair to the substance of what i wrote. chris: here is what you did say. put it up on the screen if yo
today are born to families eligible for medicaid. the idea that you can ask the american people to balance this budget on the fackets backs of the ugly and the most vulnerable with no burden through tax reform on the most fortunate americans is fundamentally unacceptable. it s not going to happen. they knew it it s not going to become law. we have made so much progress over the last four months with republicans and trying to build consensus for a more balanced approach i give the speaker a lot of credit for that. let s turn in the time we have left for the economy. last august you wrote op. ed article in the new york times and the headline as you can see there is welcome to the recovery. that was not our headline. that was the new york times headline. deeply unfair to the substance of what i wrote. chris: here is what you did say. put it up on the screen if you can what you did say is we are on a path back to growth. i assume that s true. chris: those were your words.