Interesting. Solid conservative, excellent legislator. I think es hes one of these people you want in congress. A person of tremendous integrity whether you agree with him or disagree. He knows full well hes going to face a primary opponent and trump will campaign against him but in the land of barry gold water, were going to see now a defiant and Maverick Mccain and someone in flake with this book and his campaign is going to elevate conservativism again. The ultimately they need to find a way to govern. The to go to voters to say give us your trust to move the country in a new direction. Thats not just about the economy and the governments intervention in the economy. So you have the republicans making a move towards conscience or so they say and chris, you
have this other blow to the president in the form of a lawsuit, former d. C. Cop accusing fox news of manufacturing a story, using the death of a dnc staffer to distract from the Russia Investigation. We talked to the donor at the
Champagne down pennsylvania avenue. There are only two places where americas popping champagne; the white house and the corporate boardrooms including trump tower. The gop tax scam is about bleeding the middle class dry to pad the pockets of Corporate America and the wealthiest 1 . Paul joining the panel, Wall Street Journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and Mary Anastasia ogrady and Editorial Page writer kate odell. Why did they succeed on taxes when they failed on health care . Right. That is one question, because you would expect a failure to make it harder to succeed. But i think here the Health Care Failure really focused the minds for the gop that, for them, it was do or die for their majority in 2018 to get a tax bill passed. And it wasnt always clear they would choose do. [laughter] but also i think there was a rougher consensus on what a tax
something to behold from both directions. [laughter] paul some of its phony, i must say. [laughter] i
Optimistic going into the negotiations merkels conservatives are holding the preliminary talks with the center left Social Democrats after previous talks with other parties failed sticking points this time around are expected to be germanys refugee all seized and his approach to european integration. Lets have a listen to what mark on the social democrat leader Martin Schultz had to say as talks got underway. Because the c. D. U. Is going into these talks with the aim of creating the conditions to form a stable government. Thats because we believe that the tasks ahead for which we have the voters mandate are enormous in terms of Foreign Policy challenges european challenges and also in domestic affairs. We all sensed that the challenges for a new federal government however at me luker be structured lie in that the new year and which we all live must also include a new kind of politics in this sense we will conduct the negotiations here
constructively and with an open outcome. Of coveri
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8th. Keeping them honest, all theyre really doing is kicking the Government Funding can down the road for another likely heated showdown next month. Mitch mcconnell and Chuck Schumer struck a deal to reopen the government without resolving any issues that sparked the shutdown, mainly immigration reform, namely for daca, and democrats w
Would the media like to hear Mick Mulvaneys report or would you find it extraordinarily boring and therefore not fit for camera . Yes, please. Would you like to hear it . Yes, please. Why dont we do this. Well say grace afterwards. We are actually going t use that as an opportunity to take a bit of a break here. President trump there, weekly cabinet meeting, calling on his Budget Director Mick Mulvaney for a presentation. We will go back when the president starts to take some questions there from reporters who have assembled in the room. Craig melvin here once again from mcallen, texas. You heard President Trump there going on a bit about the economy, going on a bit about the bad hand he has been dealt with regards to iran, with regards to north korea as well, and, of course, with regards to mexico. All of this coming just less than a day really after President Trump did an aboutface on his Policy Of Separating children from their parents as they illegally try to
cross the border here