simmerin three and a half years now. there s been this kind of covert war going on between the two countries. we haven t heard about all the time during president obama s second term, i think on purpose. he didn t want to be the focusme of its foreign policy by any stretch. but he was the one who really started this program targeting this electronic cyber warfare program targeting the missiles at home. i think we are really seeing a continuation of that, is whatn we re seeing. dana: what about behind the scenes at the united nations? what kind of communication would they be having, because obviously there s been a lot of activity with the bombing, the tomahawk missiles in syria, the moab in afghanistan, the activity that happened all in quick succession. i want to ask you both about the fact that we re even talkingnd about our cyber warfare capability to me seems i understand that ainsley had to ask a question, absolutely, but maybe we shouldn t be talking about this at all? i th
can you fix that? can you find ways to fix that? that s one thing. the heart of the republican bill is repealing not only the expansion of medicaid under president obama but block granting the underlying program to the point where 14 million fewer people would be receives medicaid. there is not a single democrat who can vote for any part of that agenda. if donald trump wants to talk to d democrats the first thing he has to tell them is you re not block granting medicaid. but if he s working in ca huhu cahoots with the speaker, that is what the president will do. they will fix obamacare, but not come close to repealing. so far the reaction i would say is yawn. a very conservative member of the let s say no crowd that you mentioned said it didn t take long for the swamp to drain at real donald trump. no shame, mr. president. almost everyone succumbs to the
whose only brief. you ve got steve bannon who is the kind of architect of the vision of a transformed, you know, ethnic defensive nationalist politics then you ve got jarred and ivanka whose client is the president. kind of the way michael he doesn t have somebody else to be in ha role. on balance, if you have somebody playing this role in a semi official way or outside, the question i have, is the influence going to be there? one area she talked about a lot during the campaign brokered after the campaign brokered the meeting been al gore and donald trump. this week he repealed the clean power plan. in the process of repealing. one president obama s second term accomplishments. let see what she actually as ba abby said, can she move the issues. with the freedom caucus it would have stripped mandatory maternity benefits.
the information to move. we have a person like betsy devos who we knew nothing about her commitment to public education. i think it was important to take american people understood our concerns and we could hold her accountable. now she s secretary of education. we re going to the use our time to make sure that people understand the background of these individuals, their commitment to the agency that they are being appointed to so we can hold them accountable. and, yes, in some cases we would hope that republicans may join us in questioning whether this person s the best person chris: but, senator, back in 2013 when republicans delayed the confirmation of two members of president obama s second term cabinet, here s what you had to say about that. this is a pattern of blocking president obama s confirmation votes on his key cabinet positions. senator, aren t you and other democrats engaged in exactly the same practice that you criticized four years ago? i think my recollection was t
offices, it s a lot easier for the information to move. we have a person like betsy devos who we knew nothing about her commitment to public education. i think it was important to take as much time as possible so the american people understood our concerns and we could hold her accountable. now she s secretary of education. we re going to the use our time to make sure that people understand the background of these individuals, their commitment to the agency that they are being appointed to so we can hold them accountable. and, yes, in some cases we would hope that republicans may join us in questioning whether this person s the best person chris: but, senator, back in 2013 when republicans delayed the confirmation of two members of president obama s second term cabinet, here s what you had to say about that. this is a pattern of blocking president obama s confirmation votes on his key cabinet positions. senator, aren t you and other democrats engaged in exactly the same practice that