Saw fairly recently at the white house when President Trump announced judge neil gorsuch would be his pick to replace justice scalia. Several people people will be in attendance whose family were killed from undocumented immigrants. At President Trumps Campaign Rallies hed bring people on stage to talk about this with regard to immigration. This will be a discussion of potentially economic security, national security, and possibly immigration as we look ahead later in the week, ali, to the president revealing his revised travel ban. On friday remember, it will be a month that original ban has been tied up in Court Essentially since the stay was put on it. The president might talk about his budget, too, something a lot of members of congress are particularly interested in hearing. Heres what he had to say when it came to what he would do with Entitlement Reform with cuts to medicaid and Social Security. Listen. You have an omb director finally. He says you have to take an axe to entitle
watched is about our judicial abilities? how much is about the midterms in 2024? oh, it s about the midterms in 2024. even the presidential election at this point. you have, you know, a number of these individual senators like cruz and holly are trying to do the jockeying position for 2024. at the end of the day, the country s looking at this and recognizing that what you just showed there for example from ted cruz is all performtive. this is not about the substance of actually getting into the judicial, you know, thinking of this judge. how she processes it. you know, judge brown put this in front of us from the very beginning. she said i write my opinions in detail. they are long for reason. it is very clear that even if you pull out those eight or nine porn cases, these individual senators were not seriously taking her judicial thinking about process into account here
now. and that s kind of where they re jockeying position, you want someone who knows what s happening after watching what happened with donald trump who doesn t know what s happening and that s the hope for the democratic field, when you look at the wave in 2018, it came from two places, from progressive primary upsets and it came from winning swing seats. so that s going to be where i think you find the challenge of who can find not just a lane but who can have a uniting message for both sides of the party. willie, you asked a good question are senator harris, what kind of toneoned tenor an could they adopt against donald trump? that s assuming they re running against donald trump. they re still going to adopt that posture early.
been a little bit of jockeying position who can shake the president s hand and have that moment as the president was walking into the chamber. congressman engel is not going to try for it this year because he has so many concerns about the trump presidency and administration so far. peter, let me ask you something about this discussion of thinning down the state department, and what some people are criticizing as eliminating some of the u.s. s soft power. i want to read to you what 121 retired generals said about president trump s plan to slash the state department s budget. elevating and strengthening diplomacy and development alongside defense are critical to keeping america safe. this was signed by people like david petraeus, anthony zinny, james stavrides and echoed by a number of people on our air today saying soft power is much more important than this president seems to think it is. that s right.
last night. whether it is part of a broader scheme, i wouldn t go there. frankly i think the most important point this is a just another partisan political tool that is distracting us from the important work of not only finishing the actual investigation into the agent s death but also dealing with this horrific level of gun violence and mutually destructive trade we have with mexico. reporter: traveling thursday the attorney general thinks possibility of still exists for a deal. republicans are threatening full house vote on the floor next week unless the administration provides those documents. jenna: much more throughout the day, thank you, catherine. reporter: thank you. rick: the decision on the health care law will come next week and already both members of both political parties are busy jockeying position ahead of that announcement. house speaker john boehner telling fellow republicans to quote, not spike the football, instead focus on jobs and the economy. democrats are