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Crucial day. thank you. now with my our senior panel. just for the politics of this, smart move for the democrats to go ahead with a filibuster here to force republicans to change the rules to quote unquote go nuclear to confirm him. it depends on a smart move for whom and to what end. jeffry and i have been going back and forth about whether or not it matters all day. i ll let him give you his answer on that. i suspect i know what it is, but let s talk about raw politics and election politics. in that sense it is a smart move in that the democratic base has such fervor and they re so angry by not just donald trump s presidency, but specifically by the idea that president obama s nominee wasn t given a hearing for 11 months. they re begging, demanding that the democrats do exactly what ....
Dispute. he was never small. reporter: kushner s lack of political experience is the sticking point for many. when he announced the desire to make the federal bureaucracy for like a business is our hope is we can achieve efficiency for our customers who are the citizens. critics pounced. we re not customers, we re citizens, which means we own the store. you work for us, buddy. reporter: so what is kushner going to do with all of this power. that s something of a mystery because he rarely appears on camera talking about anything. he goes about his work in a quiet way. when he speaks it seems to be only in a whisper that can only be heard by donald trump. thank you. former president obama advisor and jeffry lord former ....
Instead we are doubling down, we, meaning they, doubling down on something because trump s mantra is never admit a mistake. so it can t be a mistake by definition because they said it. to jeff s point this alleged apology ou apology hung out there a long time. i was hearing there was no apology. i m not clear on what happened. there are real world ramifications to these moments. people are taking these things literally. jeffry, i think i know your argument, well i think your argument is that donald trump was elected to stir things up and to the people who voted for him and to his base the idea that he s poking britain in the eye or got angela merkel upset ....
Disappoi disappoidi disappoint soesuate is a level i have not achieved yet. jeffry, you heard the bishop talking about how he was offended by donald trump mocking the new york times reporter who has a physical disability. trump says he wasn t doing that. can you defend him? do you believe he was not mocking the disability of this reporter? anderson, i take him at his word but the thing, this is really? you really take him at his word based on what you saw in the video, have you ever seen him anderson, let me i mean, he does stuff all the time with his hands. he s a hands person. he just mimics and does this and that and the other. and a wide stance. sorry, go ahead. well, the point is here that i think this outrage is phony and the reason it s phony and i know charles paper quoted outrage. charles is there. ....
Caucuses. so to get 388 votes and win and to have 3,000 to 4,000 people show up for you at the same town, that says something s going on there. it s interesting, jeffry, you say politics, you have to be a divider so, if you can be a great divide enwhen you re running for something then perhaps get to that pinnacle, win the race, then suddenly become a unifier, who s buying that? well, that s the way it goes. ronald reagan, you know, was certainly known as uniter in the country but he first spent the time dividing himself from george h.w. bush and later from jimmy carter. notably he would say recession is when your neighbor loses his job depression is when you lose your job and recovery begins when jimmy carter loses his job. he was blunt about these things yet went on to be one of the more unifying presidents in american history. that s standard fare if you re running for president not to mention being president. ....