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Alternative is to come out and condemn the president and alienate his base which again is a lot of their base. >> and andrew, your colleagues at "politico", outdid themselves today, they came up with a stat that there are more men named jim in the house of representatives than republican women running for re-election. chris kollingsworth would love a stat like that. >> particularly. >> i mean it is esoteric, yes, but it speaks to something that is aggressively becoming not a good look for the re...

Occupies. >> stranger things have happened. the president leaves for the weekend learning of her popularity especially from some of the republicans who are saying from him, this last nomination is dead, i wanted to help you but i could not, he i does like to be attached to popularity. >> he does. and he has listened in the past when a nominee falls through, im thinking of heather nauert, his pick to be the u.n. ambassador, fell through, his follow-up pick kelly craft who had road blocks of her o...

Planning or execution of the enforcement effort said they could not recall ratcliffe playing a central role.re this means the u.s. is facing the possibility of having no permanent national security leader amid increasing tensions, as we cover here, every night, with iran, north korea, and the threat of future election interference, the ongoing attacu from russia.ce now, within congress, this is notable. there is widespread support for sue gordon, a career civil servant, who is dan coats number t...

Question is, will the republican base become so devout unto itself, so bound up, that centrist part of the puzzle is simply gone? and i think these retirements suggest that that is certainly the reality of 2020 politically. and culturally, politically, is one of the most fascinating questions facing us, is what happens to the republican party after trump? does trumpism survive, despite donald trump having to some point leave the scene? and thats something that it would take, if one were a republ...

On biden going through and getting the nomination, and then, you know, maybe its jurassic park with these two septuagenarians running against each other next year, but i suspect, suspect thats where we end up. >> both of our guests have agreed to stay with us, as we go to break, i want to read something from our friend susan glasser, writes, such a superb letter from washington each week in the new yorker, confession. i dont actually think policy wonk wars are the best way to approach the challe...