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As true threats like alec baldwin. >> vladimir putin has been too many kim jong un videos. it is striking though. alec baldwin tweets the president given this threat from the leaderboard of russia didnt respond in some way. silence was kind of deafening. >> bret: leslie, i mean, key can point a list of things that the administration has done. often not touted but even daniel pletka from aei who is no fan of trump said they are doing some things on russia that they are moving pretty quickly on. >...

Trump sell-by date. if it wasnt this incident, there might be something else. how much of this do you think this is just if you look at the pattern here that goes back two years, the person in his ear only lasts about 6 to 9 months? >> well, that is true for the president. on the other hand, what weve seen is that people who appear to hit a sell-by date, if they stick around and they get over the hump, the spotlight turns away. >> tillerson. >> yeah, hes still working. >> sessions is still there...

With the president or his team. i dont know how they are monitoring and i would think that at some point he would come out and speak against this type of civil disobedience that is taking place there. and respect for civil discourse in a community that made a decision. >> pivoting to north korea which youve mentioned, in 1994, north korea threatened to turn seoul into a sea of fire. weve heard this kind of rhetoric from north korea before. what makes this situation different and should americans...

>> they all have to be in on it they must hang up the shoes, let some real legislators come inif and do it, because seven years later we are tired of the game where theyey are going to think tanks, aei, giving lectures about how we are the master budget negotiator. no, you are not. until you show the american people that you can get the house in order, you are not an expert atehehe anything but ho. >> sean: if they want to win in 2018, they need to follow up, we already have neil gorsuch. that i...

They must hang up the shoes, let some real legislators come in and do it, because seven years later we are tired of the game where they are going to think tanks, aei, giving lectures about how we are the master budget negotiator. no, you are not. until you show the american people that you canat get the house in order, you are not an expert at anything but hot air. >> sean: if they want to win in 2018, they need to follow up, we already have neil gorsuch. >> we willwi see about him. it is a long...

>> thats a great point. by the way, they voted for trump because their wages havent moved and theyve lost so many jobs and it wasnt a strong expansion. go for business tax cuts. heres the key one, ive been saying this all year, early last year, this is for large companies, but its also for small businesses. llcs, proprior or itship. this will be the first business tax cut for small businesses in i dont know how long. and, according to work done by the aei and others, the biggest beneficiary of a...

Julian assange or the intelligence officials? >> i wouldnt listen to julian assange. i think i is quite a neer do well. >> so you would listen to the cia over julian assange? >> i dont have to pick just the cia analysts. i mentioned the author of the article in the wall street journal today. neither is he julian assange, nor is he somebody who works for the cia. >> but youd lien to somebody from aei over the cia analysts? >> i would listen to someone who i think is making a coe gent point, and d...

Boot straps. the invisible hand. cut taxes for corporations. that aint doing anything. its for people dying in michigan or pennsylvania who have seen their jobs go away and keep falling behind. we have been blind to those people. >> thats right. we dont tell our stories well. the human heart is conditioned to hear stories. and when we dont tell the story, the left and the -- my friends on the left, democrats tell story wonderful. telephone shows. >> we quote aei, talking points, and heritage fou...

What, my only point is this. republicans need to speak to the disenfranchised. that looked like a bernie sanders ad. as jeff greenfield said, it looked like a bernie sanders or elizabeth warren ad. i pissed off a lot of people at the "wall street journal" as well saying republicans need to start talking like that. but the conservative populism is something that wins states like michigan or pennsylvania. >> yeah, but maybe not for the reason. look, it cant be a reflection of reaction every time. ...

Say this. how do we have fusion of aei and hard populism on trade? horde populism on tax policy? a lot came in in 94 that were a mix. i dont know why hedge funders pay 14% tax rate. thats offensive to me. i have a feeling if im feeling that as a small government conservative, probably 80% of americans of feeling that. >> let me answer the question by saying if only someone with a populist world view and had good sensibilities about policy and super savvy in media and great head of hair ran for p...