Minds around that we would like to project on israel the kind of government we would like there to be in israel. We have the government that there is. Netanyahu is beholden to the most far right elements ever in a coalition and that is the reality staring us in the face. Ben rhodes, thank you for your time. That is our show for this evening. Now it is time for last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, alex. It was a shorter day in the courtroom, but an important day in the courtroom. Everyone at the table was in the courtroom today. The regular gang, lisa rubin, andrew weissmann. We are done now. The evidence is in. We can make evaluations about where the evidence stands in a more important way tonight than before. And important questions i am sure they will have thoughts on that the judge will have to answer in the coming days. Have a good show. Well, at 10 11 a. M. Today Donald Trumps lead criminal Defense Lawyer todd blanche stood and said, your honor, the defense rests. The t
warn publicly that if you cut too fast too quickly, you would risk a short-term recession or worse. and that is something you don t hear from republicans right now. it used to be common sense that you can t cut right now in times of delicate economic growth. now you don t hear that that much. eugene, here is the new white house chief of staff, denis mcdonough on the republicans. here it is. the focus for the president, the lens through which he is going to see this fight is the same lens he has seen each of the fight, which is what is the impact on middle class families and the kinds of investments that we expect for the economy to grow from the middle out. so, eugene, how can the republicans avoid being the bad guy against the middle class here? i mean, i think this is all part of the republican obstruction plan. we saw a record number of filibusters in the last session of the congress come in the senate. and now what we re seeing come from the house is, first of all, we re not
mcdonough on the republicans. the focus for the president, the lens through which he is going to see the fight is the same lens he has seen each of the fight. what is the impact on middle class families and the kinds of investments that we expect for the economy to grow from the middle out. eugene, how can the republicans avoid being the bad guy against the middle class here? i think this is all part of the republican obstruction plan. we saw a record number of filibusters in the last session of the congress come in the senate. and now what we re seeing come from the house. first of all, we re not going to work. second we re going to let the sequester ride this thing out and blame president obama. that appears to be the plan right now. well if this is a plan, they need better planning. they ve done the obstruction number before, and it hasn t worked out very well for them. the real issue i think is the internal dynamics within the republican party, the fact that there are sensibl
the focus for the president, the lens through which he is going to see the fight is the same lens he has seen each of the fight. what is the impact on middle class families and the kinds of investments that we expect for the economy to grow from the middle out. eugene, how can the republicans avoid being the bad guy against the middle class here? i think this is all part of the republican obstruction plan. we saw a record number of filibusters in the last session of the congress come in the senate. and now what we re seeing come from the house. first of all, we re not going to work. second we re going to let the sequester ride this thing out and blame president obama. that appears to be the plan right now. well if this is a plan, they need better planning. they ve done the obstruction number before, and it hasn t worked out very well for them. the real issue i think is the internal dynamics within the republican party, the fact that there are sensible members of party who realize
you want to hear that, you know, we re all going to build it ourselves because we built it ourselves so you can too? or we re going to work together. we re going to be your partner. we re going to work together and cooperate to move america forward. but within the theme of cooperation, of course, is what happens in congress? we know that the obstruction plan started as the inauguration was going on. so if obama s re-elected, do the republicans in washington continue on the path of obstruction, or does that no longer matter? you know, rahm emanuel said that he believes that president obama s re-elected that. s will start cooperates and working with him. i talked to a few today. they re not so certain. the one thing that s true is right off the bat if the president is re-elected, there s a lot of serious issues on his plate. the bush tax cuts, the debt limit will come back up in 2013. they will be forced to work together no matter who wins the