Devils Advocate Fora Second News Today

Constituents. they need to be here on behalf of their constituents, not the special interest here in washington. >> to play devils advocate for a second. you are a progressive from a safe district in wisconsin. joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are moderates from states where a republican is just as likely to be elected as a democrat. more so in west virginia for manchin. and they just dont share the same views of this budget bill that you do and that progressives do. from their point of view, your...

Conference. it puts republicans, i think, in a mind. so, i would think are the a democratic perspective it would be tactically useful. >> let me play devils advocate for a second. the argument goes if you bring rudy giuliani hes going to also want to then have to discuss or want to discuss hunter biden, bre burisma and try to make that center stage. thats what hes out there investigating, the various conspiracy theories out there. do you open a bit of a pandoras box, by bringing in rudy giuliani...

Separation of challenge arguments in both states that are going to end up in court. i think the legislature has to get it, and they clearly dont. citizens dont want this. in michigan, another quick example, 400,000 citizens signed a petition to raise the minimum wage. 400,000. the legislature is going behind them trying to undo that. that is a complete violation of what citizens demanded. those same people are going to organize and put it on the ballot. thats the backlash, legislative backlash -...

Withdraw from eastern ukraine and crimea. he couldnt do any of that and today the country is stunned and the world is stunned and america is a whole lot weaker than we were going into today. >> president trump says that hes doing this because he wants the united states and russia to have a stronger relationship. take a listen to him talking about why thats important. >> nothing would be easier politically than to refuse to meet, to refuse to engage but that would not accomplish anything. as pres...

In a separated fashion so they kept the russia investigation clean. >> manafort and gates -- play devils advocate for a second. manafort and gates are charged with crimes regarding laalleged money laundering -- >> thats their elections, not ours. >> but it has to do with ties and back door -- >> it has nothing to do with the 2016 election. >> i dont think we know that. >> i think all weve seen is comments like, sure, well talk to -- marketing. continuing their marketing into that part of the wor...

Machine in his world view of thing. >> if your machine is like the chaos machine? >> yes. if its the chaos machine. im doing good chaos right now so this is all working for me, thats what thats all about. having ruddy come out and say what he says thats the trump whisper. that has been approved by trump otherwise he wouldnt be out saying that. this is laying down the tracks for what will come, and we all know what will come, shulkin is going to go, lets start the clock counting down now. theyre ...

He has not made a deal yet and we are eight months into his administration. >> i dont think the democrats will let him make a deal. >> no, especially if its a bad deal for working people. >> he needs to make a deal with the republicans. he needs to get republicans on board. >> can i play devils advocate for a second. >> please. >> i think that yes all of those things are true. donald trump is reckless. hes his own worst enemy. he shoots his mouth off when he shouldnt. those things have been true...

The risk to south korea, the instability that would result from some or the of u.s. strike, and the very definite uncertainty about how kim jong-un might react. remember, he keeps himself in power by convincing his supporters and his people that the u.s. is going to attack them this begins to play into his hands if there is the threat of that kind of attack. >> let me play devils advocate for a second. were not sure if it was part of a strategy or he just ad libbed it. lets say it was a strategy...

Prosecutor without extraordinary consequences on both sides of the aisle. ive talked to a number of my republican colleagues who have already indicated they would be prepared to act. >> one of the problems that democrats and republicans have voiced in the past about special prosecutors are they end up investigating -- theyre first tasked with looking into a land deal, and the next thing you know theyre looking into whether or not president clinton had an affair with an intern. there are similar ...

People, highly talented, extremely successful in the financial or business sector, who said no when they were asked to take a position in the trump administration for this reason, that they didnt want to go through months of divulging all of their financial assets and thousands of pages of financial disclosure. we really need to ask ourselves, do we want people of wealth to be in public service? now, i would make the case to you, jake, that the american people knew that donald trump was a real e...