for democrats, it s about do they have enough power to pump up the ballots and drag a victim across the finish line. the let fit you are for office, the better. they will just fling you into the back of a van like you are a side of beef, like they did with hillary. but, she couldn t walk but, hey, she was a woman and that s who barack wanted to succeed him. and if you re too scared of covid and you can t get a crowd and you can t handle the press, they will bury you into a bunker and zoom you into the white house just like they did with joe. and then came along john fetterman, who wasn t senatorial timber to begin with, and then the poor guy had a stroke. took the summer off, and delivered the worst debate performance in american political history. here s what i think we have to fight about inflation here right now, that s what we need to fight about inflation. there is that 2018 interview you said, quote, i don t support fracking at all. so how do you square the two? o
A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. Could trumps own policies undermine the economic uptick. White house economic adviser larry kudlow will be here in moments. Healer in chief . Well talk to a potential dark horse 2020 candidate with a history of bringing people together. You elected me to do the right thing, not the easy thing. Former new orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu next. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is seemingly on two different tracks. There are now 100 days until the midterm elections and President Trump is dealing with two different realities, positive Economic News and also scandal and controversy including a messy public war with his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen. The feud between the president and his former fixer is heating up. Late saturday night, one of the president s current attorneys, rudy giuliani, argued in an
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man in the cell next to you, what were you talking about? we talked about a lot of things. he would take a towel and kind of do this in front of my cell to get my attention and he had seen a book i had and noted the noted the author. he reads he s a veracious reader. we talked about that. he told me the tragedy in his life, how he lost his son. more and more stuff revealed, but what was interesting about him, he has not seen the light of day in four years. he s allowed out into the sunshine one hour a week. he doesn t avail himself to it. you sit there and i left as i m leaving at the end of the assignment, he s laying at the bunk looking up at the ceiling. and i m just thinking, how do you cope? how is that your life? it really shook me when i walked out of there. i m going back to my life and this guy is laying on his back staring at the ceiling in a place that he rarely ever lees. in perpetuity. did it feel like a community or
the government has said no evidence of collusion or anything to do with the russians. in that trial. that s the first part. that s the first part. who is the centerpiece of this grand piece of espionage? carter page? papadopoulos? who is the center? can we boil this it comes to two questions. did members of the trump campaign knowingly solicit stolen information. no. number two, was there any arrangement to set election help no. have you noticed your colleagues changing the bar saying, so what if there was? we should never allow that to take place. if a foreign adversary is offering i don t dirt, they want something in return. if you take it, you re compromised. president trump has never claimed to be a veracious reader. this week it sounded like he had taken a page from literature. stay with us. your all you can eat riblets. okay. enjoy. thanks.