not the economic obliteration that donald trump threatens turkey with. tariffs on steel. a trade deal not going to happen. there s key ministers along with part parts of the ministry. but they re not going to finish the commerce. no way. turkey s capacity to be persu e persuaded by the united states is reduced, as is that of the kurds that are moving towards the syrian regime. difficult how they can take assurances from turkey. some think this is written in stone. u.s. troops are moving fast. the announcement that they are leaving, not normally you expect. normally ature happens.
woodruff who we talked to in the last hour. she said it s sad that he felt he had to go out on twitter and say, i love tiffany. that s just painful to say that. i m sure you have similar agreements on that, but the white house could have kept this story under wraps if westerhout was not forced to resign. did they have no choice but to remove her, or could it have slipped under the radar? i think it could have slipped under the radar. trump sort of had to be persu e persuaded to do something about this, but as kelly was saying, this can get you in trouble even if it s said off the record with reporters. the president cares about his family, obviously, and has it very dloes close, and it
clinton won, kind of person who democrats hope might be spersu e persuaded to ultimately vote against this bill. the opposition is going to have a harder time now. most of the rest of this process happens behind closed doors and republicans feel like they have the wind at their back. the other thing going on here this week which i think complicates this is the fact that congress has to pass a spending bill just to keep the government open by friday. so a lot to be done in a very short period of time. you know, this is my favorite topic, garrett. you better stay down there and pay attention to everything that happens today. i want to break it down with my panel. i got somebody else, my dear friend variety correspondent bill cohen and donna brazile still here. bill, i go to you first. republicans aren t going to run into any road bumps here. fact we re going to is it seven brackets or four brackets, that s window dressing. stephanie, as you know, this is quote/unquote historic. has
speaking on principle and from his heart. he knows it s unpopular, but it s what he believes and he will say what he believes. what he will have do is persu e persuade, if he decides to run, on that issue, immigration and on education, i think he has a lot of persuading to do to try to get people to coalesce around him. there were republicans around the country who said i think i can agree with that. again, he s not making any announcement thus far about running how is that going to play with the party at this point in time? he jumped out in front with an act of love immigration and look there are others on the right, you hear rand paul, marco rubio also talking about similar ideas. not necessarily an amnesty but maybe some sort of punishment but keeping the 11 or 12 million
speaking on principle and from his heart. he knows it s unpopular, but it s what he believes and he will say what he believes. what he will have do is persu e persuade, if he decides to run, on that issue, immigration and on education, i think he has a lot of persuading to do to try to get people to coalesce around him. there were republicans around the country who said i think i can agree with that. again, he s not making any announcement thus far about running how is that going to play with the party at this point in time? he jumped out in front with an act of love immigration and look there are others on the right, you hear rand paul, marco rubio also talking about similar ideas. not necessarily an amnesty but maybe some sort of punishment but keeping the 11 or 12 million