Mcconnell. now mitch is still there, but now he s got to deal with nancy pelosi. and remember, congress has the power of the purse. and that is you know, it s the article one institution. it s congress is important. and i think we re going to see just how important and just how powerful in the coming months. what do you think? how do you think that dynamic, that trump/pelosi dynamic we got a taste of it in the oval office a couple weeks ago. how do you think that s going to look in the next couple years to the country? he s trying to make a voodoo doll of her now. he hasn t quite said lock her up, but i think there will be some parallel chant when he goes on these campaign trips, campaign stops. we re going to hear something, another chant is going to somehow or other materialize. ease that anger, to stoke people. that s what he runs on. he really needs that. and without that, without that foil, he s lost. so, he s going to somebody s going to have to be the person,
Decisions appear to have been made in an impulsive way without consultation with congress, allies, or pentagon advisers. that s what policymakers call process, but that isn t a reason, he says, to reject the policy shift. he goes on to point out that process is good but it doesn t guarantee wisdom. endera, i just thought this was an interesting piece and i m curious your reaction to it, because essentially, what he s arguing is the process as it commonly plays out, he seems to be arguing, sort of inevitably leads presidents to defer to military voices, to defer to longer military commitments, and maybe by being ignorant of traditional processes, trump gets the country out of something that maybe the country wants to be out of. well, steve, i would argue it this way, that process is necessary but not sufficient. you need to have a process. the whole point of a democratic form of government, the way we do things, having a congress who advises and consents and having a cabinet that i
And then in all caps, no federal funds, question mark? why not have the department of education investigate this and see what actually happened here and whether berkeley fell short in protecting its students constitutional rights? paul: well, okay. but just because you have speech discrimination, you can t ban federal funds. in other words, you can t use viewpoint discrimination to ban, to use as a tool of federal policy. well, there s certainly precedent for using federal withholding federal funds to require universities to respect constitutional rights. let s see, let s look into see what the law says. maybe congress can pass some legislation here. paul: well, i don t know that i want to go down that route myself just because of the first amendment implications. when conservatives do that, it leads to a precedent, i think, james, that then liberals take it even further. well, look, if we can get rid of the department of education, i d be happy with that too. [laughter] paul fa
Candidate, if you think north dakota tans are going to elect an elizabeth warren, that s just not going to happen. and the big problem for democrats is they have a brutal senate map in 2018. they re defending 25 seats, and ten of those are states that trump carried. paul: all right, thank you all. still ahead, president trump signs a two-for-one order on new regulations as republicans in congress move to scrap mr. obama-era rules. what the regulatory rollback could mean for the economy next. where to get in. where to get out.
Idea it exists because it had only been used once before to repeal a regulation. and what it says if you pass a majority vote in the house and the senate and the president signs it, you can repeal a regulation. yeah. as long as it was passed within the last 60 legislative days. paul right. now, barack obama was quite busy with his midnight regulations as he was headed out of office, so what you saw in the house this week was republicans already taking aim at about six really important ones that were passed in the last 60 legislative days, voting to disapprove them, making them go away. and these are big things like the blacklisting rule at the labor department, the streams rule which was designed to shut down coal mining. there s now talk too, turns out one little quirk of the law, that 60-day calendar doesn t begin until legislation, there s a report filed with congress about it, and some people are realizing that some obama regulations never had the reports filed, so there s a po