excessive expectations, but i don t think so. after seven years of hearing repeal and replace, why not done? for reaction we re joined by washington we re joined from washington by capitol hill reporter for the hill molly. good to see you this morning. wonderful to see you. how are our senate republicans staffers here reacting to sort of mcconnell and the president taking this view public? it s a head shaker. it s just a head shaker. keep in mind during that nearly 40 minute speech that mitch mcconnell gave at a rotary club, one of the final questions had to do with, well, what do you think about donald trump tweeting, and mitch mcconnell basically said, well, i have told him in private, and i have told him various times in public that i m not a big fan, and, you know, we would like for him to stay on message a little bit more. that being said, he opened his speech by basically saying people ask me, you know, what s it like to be the senate majority leader these days, and he
heard from their constituents and now trying to shift the blame because before before this new amendment, freedom caucus had been taking the brunt of the hits on on the blame for not passing the president s obamacare repeal. and, in fact, you know, speaker ryan, president trump, they made veiled threats and played the blame game saying it s because of the freedom caucus. some moderates were saying, you know, we really don t see number one, it s farther to the right than we d like. number, two it s still only a partial repeal of obamacare where many of the freedom caucus members prior to this amendment were saying, we want full repeal or nothing at all. molly, getting to the finish line has been the difficulty, certainly, here. the criticism last tithe time, and you laugh about that because many people are. last time was because too much a head-shaker. exactly. too much is happening behind closed doors. now the freedom caucus, tuesday group, ryan taking a step back, pence
go the ricksantorum.com in the break if you want to help. i will do it in the break. thank you very much. and coming up, my colleague wolf blitzer is going to be talking to jeb bush campaign official and george pataki. and a head shaker for sure, an 8-year-old, an 8-year-old charged with the murder of a # 1-year-old, a a nd is a child t age able to comprehend what is going on? where were the parents? that is is the shocker in the story. carved thick. that s the right way to make a good turkey sandwich. the right way to eat it? is however you eat it. panera. food as it should be. (vo) what scorn? dog food s first ingredient? wheat? in new purina one true instinct grain free, real chicken is always #1. no corn, wheat or soy.
better governance and for return aid. we need to hunt down and kill these terrorists, radical islam. islam has a problem. radical islam believes in treating women as second class citizens of the they believe in killing us. they detest our you see our allies in the middle east. they recognize those problems. leaders of israel, of egypt as you said, of other countries, of jordan, other countries thee see barbarism inherent in radical islamic terrorism. how can we fight the problem if we don t identify the problem? unfortunately he disqualified himself to be commander-in-chief and i worry it seems like the president is intent on getting leadership with iran which the leadership says things like death to america to allow them to develop nuclear capabilities. i think that is a very dangerous development for is ray europe and united states. martha: negotiate with a leader, stands up in front of his people saying death to america, sit down at table with him. that is a head-shaker to say the l
would be the deadliest attack yet on ukrainian forces. watch that headline, watching that story. martha: so the irs does more than just collect your tax dollars. they spend a lot of your time at the office carrying out union activity for the members of the irs. the irs employees spent more than $500,000 conducting union business in one year, all of that union business was conducted by the irs workers during their work hours from nine to five. because $23 million in man-hours. that is the report. lou dobbs is here. good to have you here. this is a head shaker. this information has been out there for a while. they released last year 201 workers who earn $100,000 per year doing union activity for