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Path. would you have this much patience for president trump if you didn t share the same partym label. well, if we didn t share the same party label, we wouldn t have done tax reform and roll back regulations like we have, wens wouldn t have the record l unemployment rate we have and upward pressure on wajs. we have a good story in part because this president was willing to work with this congress and accomplish these things.nd so, you know, there s things i disagree with this president with. you haven t run out of patience yet, is that a fair way of putting it? i m still in the mode of working with the president where i can and try to move him in a different direction where we have to. in syria in particular, we really have to step up. if the president nominates somebody few secretary of defense that shares his world view that s very different from secretary mattis, could you confirm somebody that you didn t ....
Patience for president trump if you didn t share the same party label? well, if we didn t share the same party label, we wouldn t have accomplished so many we couldn t have done reform. we wouldn t have rolled back regulations, we wouldn t have the record low unemployment rate that we have, upward pressures of wages. we have a good story in part because this president was willing to work with this congress and accomplish these things. so, you know, there s there are things i disagree with the president on but i m going to work with him where i can also. the question, is you still have you haven t run out of patience yet. is that a fairway of putting it? i m still in the mode of working with the president where i can. and trying to persuade and move in a different direction where we have to. with respect to foreign policy in general in syria in particular, we really have to step up. if the president nominates somebody for secretary of defense that shares his world view, th ....
Of any sense of coming together, working through problems. it s just i m on one side, you re on the other side, it s defined by party label. i know you want to talk about all the groups to the, republicans and democrats, but i do want to ask you about republicans looking ahead to 2020. i mean, you have been candid in how you feel about this current president, senator. i m just wondering looking ahead to 2020, would you welcome a republican challenger to president trump? i would personally, yes, but i don t know that that s going to happen. who? who, senator danforth? can we name names? may we name names, sir? no. who would you like to see challenge president trump? no. i don t know. why is it that i mean, we just finished one election and already we re immediately talking about the next election. i mean, something is really ....
Hanging on to the senate means you still will be able to get appointments and such. things look good for republicans on that front. here we go into the elections. who do you trust in the economy. republicans by 15 points. who do you trust on health care? democrats by 18 points. you have a conflict on two important issues to everybody. whatever your party label. how do you litigate that? you see democrats across the country no matter what race they are running in. for senate, house, governor or talking about the issues like health care or economy or job creation or education. these are the issues that people care about. you hear a lot of democrats talking about it. you could see republicans talking more about the economy. you don t always see them talking about the economy. i think that s where some of the tension is coming from. in terms of what voters say is important to them, that is actually very clear. i have been doing this a while and you would think the ....
John mccain would be the happy warrior. warrior and a fighter always but always with so much optimism and joy and passion. passion because he believes so much in his country in the people of our country. and he believed in a greater vision of america. tom, there s every generation has this handful and it is literally a small handful of people that don t become president but become bigger than life. john mccain is one of those people. patrick moynahan was probably best representative of the generation previously. how did he achieve that status in your mind? i think you achieve that by sailing against the winds that are prevailing. for example, now, both parties, they are more ideologues than they are authentic people in terms of looking at a problem not just through the prism of being a democrat or republican but what needed to be done. john mccain would do that. not trapped by his party label. ....