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It was one week that donald trump nominated brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. most conservatives say that will make a difference for conservatism. republicans and conservatives are being squeezed. i don t know at what point he crosses the rubicon. i have seen more public criticism but there s a long way to go before he loses his party. ron, will republicans in congress just talk and issue these statements and say things like representative turner said on my show or will they do something? will they tie the president s hands with votes that are that the president can t veto? what are they going to do about it? the first thing to be clear about is there is a lot they could do and are choosing not to do. bob corker criticized the summit. isn t he the chair of a ....
Head spinning and disturbing headlines, i thought maybe it would be useful to step back for a moment and try to get some perspective. so i hope you will indulge me, despite the slight chill. all right. joining me now, ron brownsteen, matt lewis. to you, strange, head-spinning, disturbing, uncertain times. for the first time in a long time, i think a lot of republicans on capitol hill would agree in lockstep with president obama. what do you say? yeah. if they re being honest, they would. we had lots of problems with president obama, to be sure, as a conservative, i can say that. what we saw yesterday with president trump is really kind of a new low. if you are a conservative who grew up admiring ronald reagan, ....
Great britain. the president has been a consistent wrecking ball through the western alliance that has been the foundation of america s influence in the world, in a way of magnifying and amplifying our power. it s not only the words that he directed at vladimir putin, it is the contrast to the words and the deeds that he is directioning at odirection i that he is directing at the allies. if he is trying to undermine the alliances that have existed since world war ii, what would he be doing differently? that s a legitimate question for republicans on capitol hill. it s worth noting i do believe the charlottesville analogy is right here. this is the foreign policy equivalence of charlottesville. it tells us how far outside the boundaries of what had been acceptable or imaginable behavior of a president and how unwilling republicans are to hold him to account. ron, since the charlottesville statement, the ....
Gene kerpatrick what they talked about was moral clarity. the people who atatacked ronald reagan were arguing a moral equivalency. yes, russia does bad things but we do bad things, too. i never thought i would see the day when a republican president echos that sentiment. what donald trump said was a moral equivalency. yeah, we re both at fault for this. he said both sides, just like he said in charlottesville. ron, did you united states, the american people from this america first president, gain anything yesterday? the loss, i think, was really what you have to talk about. it was an enormous loss. it was compounding the losses we have seen from the g-7 meeting to the nato summit to the efforts to undermine the domestic politics in germany and ....
Gone to a national park in a year, he hasn t visited except for an airplane hanger or event where he gives a speech or a venue, you know, maybe a factory, hasn t even explored the glorious golf course that s are around washington, d.c. he is that clustered from experiencing anything out of his own bubble. can i just real, real quick. i just take this back to congressional republicans that i think brought there on themselves. sending the signal really from increasingly over time that they re not going to perform real oversight. i think president trump and the administration is basically viewed they can get away with almost anything. and ultimately, it is the people in congress that are going to be on the front line if there is a backlash against this. and by sending that signal, they have brought more trouble on themselves. i got you. ron brownsteen and lynn sweet, always good to you have here. thank you. coming up, new insight into the 2016 police shooting death of alton sterling ....