You say it as if its a bad thing, hallie jack sson. Msnbc headquarters here in new york. A day after the midterms, still a number of races to decide, enough results for both parties to take a victory lap. President trump will take his this hour, the president scheduled to appear in the eastern room of the white house for a News Conference roughly 30 minutes from now. Today hes already touted himself as the magic man for last nights senate wins. Never mind losing the house, though. President trump also had a message for the Incoming Democratic majority in the house. Investigate me . We investigate you. We also heard from Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell just a few moments ago. The Democrats In The House will have to decide just how much president ial harassment they think is good strategy. Today is more than about democrats and republicans, its about restoring the constitutions checks and balances to the trump
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you know, nancy pelosi whom he s been demonizing on the campaign trail, and that if she needs some votes because they are not really behind her, he ll give her some republican votes to help get her elected speaker because she deserves it. so that sort of heavy handed approach of irony seems to be what he s about to say. we expect he s going to be doing a major shake-up at the white house, possibly even starting right now. i m reminded of 2006 when donald ru rumsfeld was fired the day after the midterm elections, and we could see jeff sessions leaving, either fired or quitting in advance of being fired as early as today if not this week. my attack aways, like tom, the number of women in the house, i remember when a handful of women were in the house. this is historic, and the diversity, you have two, possibly three native americans. you have the first muslim american woman. we ve got two. coming from minnesota, and
iran s compliance on the nuclear front because this is pressuring the intelligence agencies to alter, reverse or amend what has been their partisan, nonpolitical conclusion so far. there s been a tradition with several aberrations as we saw with the wmd and iraq phase with george bush and dick cheney and ru rumsfeld were pressuring the cia. there s been a long tradition not to pressure these analysts to come up with different conclusions than they ve already reached. that s right. he s signaling he s not going to accept the conclusion that has been the consensus that iran is in compliance with the specific terms of the deal. he s not satisfied with that answer. he s telling them to go back and look at it again. he s got a very strained relationship with this intelligence community to begin with. he s criticized them on the
z the big question about this is, and we all have our opinions, how did we get here with barack obama as president of the united states who ran, in effect, against george w. bush and what had happened for eight years? he has morphed into george w. bush ii. and john kerry is donald ru rumsfeld and they have created another wave of anger about national intelligence, should we go to war in a country that is not a threat to us? we re back in 2002 all over again, only this time it s a liberal democrat who is ticking off everybody, and the republican leadership up on capitol hill is on his side. just like the democratic leadership 12 years ago was with george w. bush. and the two parties are fracturing between the base and the leadership. you talk about the parties fracturing, we know