peace out. welcome to the beat. we have a lot going today including giuliani now going under oath after he was targeted for indictment. this was before the georgia grand jury. here was of the scene on a momentous day one many would have not expected years ago given how he was once viewed in the legal community as the once prosecutor had the tables turned arrived in court. the grand jury is a secret. do you believe trump is the target of the investigation? i m not going to comment on the grand jury investigation until i know more about it. what are you expecting to talk about here today? they ask the questions. will you be cooperative? mr. goul making his way inside. you ll know one thing. if you watch the news, and if you re hearing my voice i bet you do, you may recall over all those choppy water, those months of the election drama that giuliani would talk about all kinds of things. out of pocket, dpens his own client s interest. what you just saw was a d
these two factions. if you really look at the post world war ii history of the republican party, i think it tells the story. eisenhower in 1956 got 44%, i think, check my number but something close to that of the african american vote. in 1964 that fell off a cliff to 7%. it never came back. so since 1964 the republican party has been predominantly a white party. and it is the great failure of the republican party and was a failure of mine when i worked in the party and others not to be able to attract more african american votes. now, we used to think it was a failure. ken who was chairman of the national committee in 2005, before then apologized for the sudden strategy. i think that matters. now we just throw that aside and the party is almost officially a
In Health Care Insurance Reform We See The History of the Republican Party
Very few American policy initiatives have been as popular as Obamacare. The fact that several years of Republican opposition to the Affordable Care Act did not result in any alternative policies or specific revisions to the law suggest that Republicans were aware of that. Touting opposition and threatening to repeal worked with their base, but actually doing something would lead to widespread outrage and loss of votes, possibly loss of actual elections.
criticizing the president or praising or criticizing vladimir putin and we saw where the chips fell in that regard. these republican members of congress think that vladimir putin and the way he approaches the world is un-american and you know, there are people who are more harsh on russia than others. the republican party has been on the more hawkish side so i think this is an area where it put them in a tough position. you combine that with what s going on with robert mueller and again, i don t think this turns in a fundamental way until november of 2018 and that s the next point when we might see one, but this is definitely an instant where i would definitely mark it down on the history of the republican party s relationship with trump. this is still a bit of the usual suspects here. and i mean that in a good way.