many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents, but at best, it s a compromise, and at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin, when the constitution was written, said we should refer to the vice president and his superfluous excellen excellency. i always think of john nance garner and his quote that it wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit, and that s cleaning up what he said. if you ask the american people what does the vice president do, i think you d probably get a shrug of the shoulders. you might even be asked who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200 and s
we as a nation spend the best part of the year selecting our president. many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place. since then, party bosses have recorded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents. at best, it s a compromise. at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin, when the constitution was written, said we should refer to the vice president as his superfulous excellency. i think the quote that wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit. what does the vice president do? you would get a shrug of the shoulders. people would be asked, who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we formed this nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200 and some years, was described in all kinds of ways, most of which meant inconse
best part of a year selecting our president. many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents, but at best, it s a compromise, and at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin when the constitution was written said we should refer to the vice president as a superfluous excellencely. i always think of john nance garner and his quote that it wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit, and that s cleaning up what he said. if you ask the american people what does the vice president do? i think you would probably get a shrug of the shoulders. you might even be asked who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if
amnesty. here is a top spokesman at the state department wrote on facebook in 2016. the largest threat to the u.s. national security are u.s. cops. there is a temporary truce in chicago where teachers were told to show up or face punishment. next two days the city and the teacher s union tried to get back to the bargaining table. brian: coming in hot. if we were outside, we would be cold and snowy and wet. not nearly as bad but then again i didn t have to plow it. it is snow has to stop where to two days almost like groundhog day. steve: it is groundhog day. steve: take a look, the crew is outside. they have all sorts of snow shovels and equipment. brian: it doesn t that look like fun though. the little plows lock like fun. steve: about 3:00 this morning i had the shovel out and i was actually clearing away to the driveway. all i had to too was about 15 feet to get to the driveway. ainsley: i bet that was so much fun. steve: oh my goodness, it weighs a ton. we wound
time in decades. he didn t govern the way he just described he wants republicans to do if they take over in the next election but he is now a trump accolade and he s speaking from the per sspective of what donald trump would want. if they do take control, are still going to have to question whether they will listen to donald trump or whether they are going to prove they can govern. the best thing democrats say they would have going for them, politically for 2024 is republicans to act like that in 2022. thank you. top of the hour. welcome to cnn newsroom. right now in the white house situation room, president biden is speaking with his european counterpart and the nato secretary general about the situation in ukraine and the announcement we just got from the pentagon that up to 8500 quote combat capable u.s. troops have been put on alert in the event that putin decides to invade ukraine. tens of thousands of troops have amassed along the border. with us is cnn pentagon