both parties are interested in recruiting women. they could definitely explore more and more, maybe to combat some of this pervasive problem exposed this year. arthur, best or worst moments of the year? the nazis in charlottesville certainly one of the very worst things. another thing that was bad was the republican party coalescing around an accused child predator and it was good, though, that he lost. i thought it was a setback for people who willfully disregard the truth. charlie, as you look at the best moment of 2017, you reflected on what you thought was not so good. right. sticking with my definition of what sort of helps us as a society be more cohesive and inclusive, i agreed that the sort of rapidly changing norms on sexual harassment and sexual exploitative behavior we saw coalescing around what we call
but schmidt got in there, he knew what to ask, and the president riffed. exactly. by all accounts this was a tale of a reporter being in the right place at the right time. this reporter was lunching with a friend of the president s at mar-a-lago. the president happened to be lunching at the same time. it was very fortuitous for that reporter. i think there were some elements of that interview that the white house staff probably was a little bit unhappy about. the fact that they talked so much about collusion during that interview, for example, means that we ve spent the past few days analyzing what he said in regards to collusion and about his power to interfere in justice department investigations. that s probably a topic that white house aides would rather him steer clear of, but they didn t have a heads-up and couldn t warn him off it. charlie, the question might be, when he is away from the white house, when he is at places where he is right now, in mar-a-lago in florida, when
businesses. charlie? well, this has been the issue that s been dogging the trump white house since he was elected. the emol yu ments issue that foreign governments should not be able to send money to the president. in this case, we have a president who has a business empire from which he s chosen not to divest. regardless, he still owns it and the profits that are made from those businesses ultimately are going into his pocket. so this is another way in which this presidency and this administration is like nothing we ve seen before. and so arthur then asked the question, all of us here, who is watching this? who s policing this activity that s happening outside of the white house? well, it s weird that it happens. on the other hand, it s
and arthur delany, reporter. i left off with you, charlie. start with you. what are your predictions of 2018? i predict that democrats will pick up senate seats in arizona and nevada. that will give them a slim majority in the senate. and then they will use that power to shut down trump s ability to appoint any judges in the last two years of his term echoing what mitch mcconnell did to obama in the last two years of obama s term, and that will make it a new normal we only get judges when the senate and the white house are controlled by the same party. hmm. okay. sarah? i actually think that the senate map is pretty unfavorable towards democrats. they re undefense in too many places. not to potentially lose one or more seats, and maybe deny them that senate majority there. in a much better position to take control of the house. the party of the president typically loses an average of 32 seats in the first year of the
various things, not on the talking points, for instance, the washington post pointing out that of the statements that he made in that 30 minutes, 24 false or misleading claims in the interview itself. does this mean that chief of staff general kelly is going to have to baton down the hatches here, charlie, in a way that he hasn t so far? well, i m sure that john kelly would like to, with you there s a certain limit to what they can do with president trump, and how many limits they can place on him, especially when he s on vacation at his golf resort in florida. i think he genuinely doesn t want to be managed. he enjoys having a freer flow of information and more interaction with guests that s spontaneous than he s allowed to have in the white house and that s the president being the president. this is an unusual president and there s a limit to how much his staff can manage up. what stood out to you in the interview, arthur? what stands out to me most