some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s the majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i ll give you a copy. i ll give you a copy of the proposal. good morning, everyone. welcome to capitol hill to the balcony here. listen, it was very interesting watching. i was asking kaitlin as that was playing, have you been as a white house correspondent to the state of the union. you say you are always at the white house. yeah. and you have been watching them. i don t know if i have ever seen one like that, to have that reaction. i remember the you lie moment with president barack obama, but i don t know if i remember one like that. i think what s so different in those two moments is the reaction. when the lie moment happened, everyone was stunned. last night it was feisty. almost expected. yeah. the president trying to cut through all of the noise and heckling from republicans. did he get his message acr
over to your house, you know, you are generally cordial, and he took some liberties, i think, on truth. but by the same token, he is the president of the united states. so i have always advocated, be a gentleman. we can agree and we can disagree. let s not be disagreeable, because we are one country. this is your second time on the program. i covered you when i was covering the white house under former president trump. i didn t get a chance to ask you about this. i want to give you a chance to respond this time. government watchdog said when you were interior secretary you misused your position, lied to investigators about your involvement in a montana land deal and broke federal ethics rules. what is your response to that? would you do anything different if you are back in that position? d.c. is a tough town. i went through multiple investigations and they all concluded the same thing. no wrongdoing. no violation of the regulations. no violation of rules. but, look, if you are goi
there is the ig in a montana voters. you have these moderate republican voters who have voted land deal backed by the chairman republican who like their of oil services firm. incumbent and swinging saying trump is more important. you remember those guys. then you have other who is were also the investigation into the handling of a connecticut casino kind of trump supporters but not solidly who might say this is too much for me. i might sit this out. deal and then the probe into the you combine those things way which he redrew the together and that s where just in the northeast alone, you see this playing out. boundaries. to say nothing of the other negative head lines since he took officer last year. he also denies any wrong doing telling of the doj investigation. they haven t talked to me. who do democrats need to make it will be the same thing as all sure the house is in democratic of the other investigations. i follow all rules, procedures, control? is there any chance of democrat
of 50 of like eight, you don t because they haven t officially commented on this but walk us have to win half of them. you maybe have to win a quarter through why the montana land of them, maybe less. development deal could be troublesome. the reason why the montana land deal is, you know, they may need to win like ten certainly could be is because it from that group. is one where there is a question it looks like i can see republicans ending up in best of whether secretary zinke and case scenario they end up with his wife could have benefitted five seats. in the worst case, the democrats financially from official acts. get like 50. what s so fascinating is we were talking a week ago, the feeling was that the momentum had shifted. the republicans maybe they could minimize their losses. in the course of pursuing that maybe they could hold on to the house. just waiting a week, so much can happen and so much can change development they looked into a and we have six more days until dev
sorry, dr. ben carson. so ever since then, this woman from the trump campaign has been an official on ben carson s staff at hud. then just a few days ago, the hill was first to report on an e-mail from secretary carson congratulating this woman, her name is suzanne israel tufts, on her new job at a different agency. congratulations on becoming the new inspector general of the department of the interior. now inspector general of an entire cabinet agency is a big huge important job, but especially at the interior department where secretary ryan zinke is under four separate ongoing ethics investigations by the current inspector general. that current inspector general, by the way, the one currently investigating ryan zinke for his spending of taxpayer dollars of travel on private jets to things like a snorkeling tour in the u.s. virgin islands and his involvement in a montana land deal, that inspector general, she found out that ben carson s