their salaries are capped at $160,000 a year, evan. 42 people are being protected now total, 18 of them trump family members. but arguably this is what a lot of republicans say this is the same problem we ve had under every administration. is that so? this is, but it is magnified some. i know a lot of republicans criticize president obama for the trips he and his family took and said oh it s cost this much and that much. but i believe usually very inflated figure, by the way. and i believe that we should not be criticizing president trump on this at all. the safety of him and his family is paramount to the nation. you may not like him as president but it s important that we never have any sort of tragedy because that would just be an absolute catastrophe for us, and you don t want a president having something happen to a member of their family that could xomp mize their ability to lead the nation at a key and critical time. evan, caitlyn, great having both of you. up mex,
senate but 50. today was an attempt to not if the republicans had come in and surrendered the president would have been glad to accept it. really what he was doing, and the other tms were doing, were laying the groundwork to use reconciliation and whatever parliamentary techniques they news need to use to ram through what they can ram through. it s not clear they can do it and get it passed. that s where they re headed. everybody was basically in their corner to start and sort of never left. it s the worst of american politics in the following sense. a lot of people say washington is very political, very partisan. a lot of fighting. the country wants compromise. these members of congress face pressure from within their party to be partisan. they know at least some people in the country want compromise. you heard a lot of rhetoric about we re not that far apart, let s work together, let s compromise. the reality most of the energy in the room, was as the president said, the same o