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A radical new vision of post cold war american power we need a return to our constitutional roots, a course correction, advocates against this colonial approach to foreign policy. i think the left is really kind of caught in between, you know, two different counter veiling positions and its hard to square the circle. >> i think foreign policy needs to be driven from the center. i agree we are against entangling alliances. but we cant take our allies and make them adversaries. and its not good to...

The week starts with members of his own party breaking with him over the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi. then trump had to spend yesterday morning sitting next to people he has personally attacked while listening to testimonials about a former presidents enduring legacy as a heroic military veteran, as the consummate public servant in the modern era of this country, and as a family man. peter baker of "the new york times" report not on trumps mind-set said the president has been, quote...

Called it a course correction after his peevish reaction to mr. mccains death. trump ended his night last night tweeting out his 50% approval rating in the most recent poll. and, of course, tomorrow brings more mueller memos as we have been talking about and more uncertainty. well, with us tonight tim obrien, the executive editor of bloomberg opinion, more importantly he wrote the book on this subject. hes the author of trump nation, the art of being the donald. i have wanted to have you on fo...

Most of the week according to administration officials, miffed in part by so many ceremonial events not related to him. he was impatient for the memorials to send, but expressed pride in himself for remaining publicly civil. people close to the president called it a course correction after his peevish reaction to mr. mccains death. trump ended his night last night tweeting out his 50% approval rating in the most recent poll. and, of course, tomorrow brings more mueller memos as we have been talk...

Survive the day and have some laughs, but its not funny. >> just to the point, presidents have close advisers who they trust and are loyal to. those advisors can go to someone and say youre doing something or you have to reverse course or reconsider what youre doing. one of the tangible outcomes in trump not having that circle around him is that the depth of -- the depth of reactions in moments like these are vast. he can do things completely off the rails and nobody will go there and say you sh...

Majority, we have to have some humility. let me read you part of this letter. quote, while we have a duty to exercise oversight of the executive branch, we must prioritize action on topics, such as the cost of health care, infrastructu infrastructure, gun safety, criminal justice reform. we have a mandate to debate, draft and work across the aisle to pass legislation. that does not sound like an incoming class totally focussed solely on investigating the president. are you encouraged? >> i am re...

All right. a blue wave helped democrats gain 39 seats in the house in the midterms. dems got at least 8.9 million more votes than republicans, largest margin ever in a midterm election. so are republicans now rushing to figure out what went wrong? that story is detailed in the new york time this is morning. we are joined by the reporter behind that piece, national political correspondent for "the new york times," jonathan martin, as well as bloomberg business week josh green. great to see you gu...

Trump in the suburbs and moderate and independent voters, a majority not made by the base alone. and they took a beating across the board except for largely white men. the new conference without their 40 either retired colleagues or defeated colleagues is much more trumpian and silent on this question so they cant have a debate about a course correction. even though they know that this is where the partys headed. its an amazing moment. like alcoholic children. you laugh -- of an alcoholic parent...

"godfather k" 2" on his twitter feed. so i mean, in terms of kind of class of the presidency is different thing and policy. george h.w. bush was a conservative republican president and also a president who passed a clean air act, who passed a civil rights restoration act. he was a bridge between the republican party of an earlier era and the republican party we see today. >> and the current republican party, a.b. and you have been talking with folks since the midterms where they dropped a lot of...

The quality of that character in the white house beyond all the specs. that will be the larger framework of the debate is just the general character of the person in the oval office. i think that will well have an up or down vote on that shortly. >> its hard to change peoples behavior who have been there for a long time who have been lawmakers in both chal bers for a long time. its easier to change the candidates behavior. you can just say im not accepting this and you dont have to vote for them...