enforcement officer who s recused himself and his attorney general from overseeing those proceedings, are all problematic for this president. he looks at someone likeholder and he what he sees is kind of the underbelly of that relationship. in other words, the role of the attorney general is to be the protector of the president and to get out of the president s way those things that are bad for the president. and he sees his attorney general sessions not having done that. there was also this on twitter this morning. the president taking credit for the state of airline safety. he wrote, since taking office, i have been very strict on commercial aviation. good news, it was just reported that there was zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record. nbc news contacted multiple aviation sources. they said they were not aware of any actions by the white house that addressed aviation safety. also, there have been no fatal crashes on u.s. commercial airlines since 2009. robert co
whether some democrats actually want to work with this president right now, who has terrible poll numbers and who is shadowed by the russia probe, that s another story. the other idea would be to sort of double down on what the president has always wants to do, which is cater to the base, that could include welfare reform or other attempts to address entitlement programs. that s something we could figure out right now. that kind of debate is going to headline discussions at camp david this weekend, when mitch mcconnell and paul ryan meet with the president. let me ask you this, zerlina, from the perspective of a democrat. if infrastructure ends up being where the white house goes, if that ends up being one of the areas, that seems like the most plausible way to get democrats back onboard for something. manchin in west virginia, donnelly in indiana now you have doug jones from alabama. so if trump says, you know what, i want to do infrastructure. i want shuttles and jobs and rib
been reporting this going back to april of 2017, long before the dossier was this hot-button issue, that this doesn t make its way, the significance of this document, when it s passed in europe in july, is not immediately clear. and it actually doesn t make its way to counterintelligence officers, officials in washington for several weeks. and part of the issue there was that the trump investigation was super close hold in the fbi. because one of the reasons was they were really worried. they didn t want to be seen as hurting donald trump and going out of his way to try to damage his campaign. remember, they had just been criticized for the way they handled the hillary clinton investigation. and they were very, very sensitive to being seen as doing that again. all right. matt apuzzo, one of the authors of that new york times report. matt, thanks for joining us. anytime. and up next, the world according to trump. the commander in chief has taken to twitter to take on the leaders
that was number one. number two, with he mentioned the name mitt romney. romney has made it clear, he is interested in this race if orrin hatch doesn t run. take a look at this, romney very popular. mitt romney moved out to utah a couple of years ago. he d been there before, running the olympics in 2002. this is a state he absolutely cleaned up. when he ran for president in 2008, republican primary in utah, mayor mayor got 90% of the vote. there are few politicians in any state in the country as popular as mitt romney in utah. so you add those two factors together, check this out, this is kind of a weird poll, but the only one that s out there. they threw a bunch of polls together of utah politicians and asked voters, if you had a chance, who would you want in the senate? mitt romney, it s not even close. he s out there at 44%. but look at this, by the way. orrin hatch was sitting pack at 8%. a u.s. senator for more than 40 years was getting lapped like six times by mitt romney in this
everything his predecessor did. without any real underlying ideology. it s essentially just, well, if obama did it, i m against it. i think that the long-term ramifications for some of these policies are going to be extremely damaging when you re stripping back epa regulations and you already have situations like flint all over the country. that s going to be something we should keep a close eye on. you look at that list, do you categorize these as things that only trump would have done? no, any republican president would have done this. he is obama places regulations on, the republican takes them off. this is one of the ways in which trump is a conventional republican president, not a revolutionary republican president. obama overregulated, he s deregulating. obama used executive action to make legislative policy from the white house, that s all being overlaid. so this is what happens when a republican president wins and there s a republican house and a republican senate and no