he is never wrong. he changes his strategy but not his mind. do you think that we re going to see any change in the president s mind on anything, or are we looking at a change in strategy? well, some of this the change would have to be pretty head-snapping. you go from calling ceos fat cats to your long lost friends. i mean, he s trying to make a pretty significant transition here, and we don t really know if he can do it because he hasn t had to do it before. someone like bill clinton had a record as governor of having to make these kind of shifts and obama has not proven that yet, but i think, you know, he s in the process. he has some momentum. he has, you know, some serious arguments to make, and i think it s quite possible. well, in december he went back on one of his cardinal campaign promises. this was not a minor thing. he supported the hated bush tax cuts for the rich. he campaigned against it. he crusaded against it and yet he accepted t.much bigger shift
well, some of this the change would have to be pretty head-snapping. you go from calling ceos fat cats to your long lost friends. i mean, he s trying to make a pretty significant transition here, and we don t really know if he can do it because he hasn t had to do it before. someone like bill clinton had a record as governor of having to make these kind of shifts and obama has not proven that yet, but i think, you know, he s in the process. he has some momentum. he has, you know, some serious arguments to make, and i think it s quite possible. well, in december he went back on one of his cardinal campaign promises. this was not a minor thing. he supported the hated bush tax cuts for the rich. he campaigned against it. he crusaded against it and yet he accepted it. much bigger shift than bill clinton been for welfare reform which he had always been for but just in different fashion. i think it was a bad deal but irrespective it was an enormous switch. it helped him. politicall
campaign chair rick gates. i don t know what robert mueller has been doing for the past week other than filing these 89 new felony criminal charges against 17 people but even just that activity of his that we can see in public, i would say that makes this a pretty good contender for busy week when it comes to the special counsel s investigation. just today alone has been head snapping in terms of how much happened all at once, just since yesterday. just rick gates has been charged with 23 new felonies on top of the eight he was already facing. he then had his entire legal team replaced. then he got a new lawyer. then he had all 31 felony charges pending against him dropped. then he pled guilty to two new, brand-new felony charges and then he signed on to a sweeping and sort of intimidating cooperation agreement with the government in which among other things he pledges to go undercover for them if they ask him to. can rick gates go undercover for anybody anymore? now that he s this fam