people set the partisanship and bitterness aside and this year it is not happening. at least to the degree it used to. heather: education secretary nominee betsy in the hot seat today as confirmation hearings kicks off. more than a dozen senators targeting over public record and will set with senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren who has openly called her unqualified. one of eight nominees ahead of inauguration. mr. trump labor secretary nominee meantime is debunking a cnn report that she s having second thoughts about the job and tweeting this, i m looking for the hearing set next month. clayton: don t miss our sit-down interview with president-elect trump. she will talk about the inauguration day, what he plans to do first day of presidency.
an enviable balance of political capital and a strong mandate. would you make that claim today? do you still have that? i would say i m spending that capital on the war. not only did plummeting support for the iraq war erode bush s ability to drive his second term agenda, but he aels overreached with the social security privatization push. his efforts on immigration reform then collapsed under the weight of the other issues. the administration bungled the response for hurricane katrina and relations with congress soured to the point that when bush nominated harriet myers to the supreme court, republicans didn t even fall in line. many conservatives privately and publicly called her unqualified. after three weeks bush was forced to withdraw her nomination. in december of 2008 shortly before he left office bush s job approval rating had suj to a miserable 27%. congress had often been a thorn in the side of second term presidents. it s a real question whether president obama will be a
capital on the war. not only did plummeting support for the war erode the ability to drive the second-term agenda but overreached. the efforts on immigration reform collapsed under the weight of the other issues. the administration bungled the response to hurricane katrina and of course relations with congress soured to the point that when bush nominated meyers to the supreme court, republicans didn t even fall in line. many conservatives privately and publicly called her unqualified. bush was forced to withdraw the nomination. in december 2008, shortly before leaving office, the job approval rating sunk to miserable 27%. congress was a thorn in the side of second-term presidents. it s a question of whether president obama forges a closer working relationship with congress this time around and then the second-term scandal. clinton dom natded and ended after a year because lewinski scandal began. congressional investigation and