on this in the short-term a short-term battle versus a long-term war. and going back to my example of the bill clinton/newt gingrich fight, we, republicans lost that fight in the short-term, but in the long-term, bill clinton signed a balanced budget. he signed republican bills on the funding levels that we wanted on things like medicare. i think the president is trying to establish going into 2020 that he s serious about border security and the democrats aren t. and the rest of these things that he comes out in tweets or details that we re goings to focus on now, he s trying to set up a longer-term difference between the two parties here. congressman dent, is that something you think he could win in setting that up, that kind of long-term fight? boy, i ll tell you what. the party that makes the policy demand in these funding fights usually ends up owning the shutdown. i don t see an easy way out right now. there should be an easy way out, but what can happen now is senator mcconne
evolution. that s all they can do with a lot of these policies. they can do more if though chose to. they could have funding fights, some things like this. they are members of the same party. i understand. they do have to work together to some extent. i guess the question is, do any of them worry what this will look like in two years? i think certainly, that s what we got a taste of with the whole khashoggi situation. we saw people, absolutely, trump, the way you are responding to saudi arabia is not consistent with how we believe an american president or elected leadership. i think in part because they re looking at some of these farewell speeches they saw orrin hatch give, jeff flake and some of these people were getting laughed out a bit. that is what s funny. every one of these farewell speeches, whether republican or democrat contain these subtle shots at trump. it is sort of remarkable whether really subtle or not. maybe they re looking at those farewell speeche
ukraine. if airasia gone down, total of eight crashes this year. heather? thank you so much. talk to you again. thanks. well, new details now about the troubles inside the u.s. secret service. a controversy about recent security breach at the white house. the washington post now revealing that the secret service has been in a downward spiral and they say it dates back all the way to the 9/11r doescy is live in washington and falls under the department of homeland security that happened after 9/11. exactly right. now the secret service, which once operated as part of the treasury department has to jockey for position in funding fights with the tsa and border patel to since all are under the massive umbrella of the homeland security department. this is all laid out in a comprehensive washington because report that explains post- 9/11 the secret service is being asked to respond to more and more threats, protect more and
default on our debt. essentially saying, the next fight, i m not going to have it. who benefits from him not fighting on something we thought he should have been fighting on all along? is he going to look like the bigger man? is it beginning to reverse on democrats? it was the bet thing he said all along. he s right. for the country or for republicans? well, no, for both i think. what he said, he s going to allow the moderates to join the democrats to let the debt ceiling rise. what s going to happen, same thing that happens all the time, reasonable republicans, combined with democrats and override these right wing nuts. okay. i got to get can i get dana in here? i could be completely wrong. medicare part b may have been attached somehow to one of these fights. also funding the iraq war. democrats both times to some of these funding fights. and i want to after dana, i definitely want to talk go ahead. so ted cruz is in the middle of this, dana, and he s in the
interesting, coming from clinton. who was he directing that message to? what bill clinton is a master at is finding where he had to make common ground eventually. he understood he had to get to a place and reach an agreement. i don t think president obama has put in his head where he will reach an agreement with republicans. he would argue these republicans, the republicans of the 90s were more likely to work with clinton newt gingrich is every bit as radical and more radical than john boehner. i don t think anybody s calling john boehner necessarily but you look at the next month, you know, debt ceiling, funding fights, it is going to be, you know, total gridlock here and we re all going to be sitting there waiting to see if the government shuts down. the question is, is ted cruz more radical than newt gingrich. ted cruz is not running this show. i ask you, since you re representing the republicans here on this panel, the bushes couldn t go, there were health