and finally tonight, we have a fun little history lesson. on what makes a mandate. at a heritage foundation event tuesday, vice president-elect mike pence said donald trump had a mandate, quote, this is an historic victory. we truly do believe our president-elect has secured a mandate for leadership. but as trump is measuring the drapes at the white house, hillary clinton does lead him by 2.8 million in the popular vote. and we re seeing some pushback on the mandate talk, some calling trump a glitch president, not a mandate president. but ultimately, the trump folks say, so what! popular vote or not, clinton lost, trump is the next president. that s reality. he s in charge, and the bigger question in history is when you have no claim to majority support, does it have any affect on the politics and the opposition against that new president? can a lack of a mandate hurt the incoming president? well, we ve got some historians here to help us sort it all out. mark weston is the author of t
deficit because we tax too little, because we spend too much. jeff. hi, haley. you ve been around the block a while. are we going to get something out of washington that is a really substyti ststantive agre just looks real enough to satisfy the public. i don t think you will satisfy the public. the public is very divided, as the election showed. i hear all this mandate mandate talk but the president got less than 51% of the vote. he won because he made mitt romney unacceptable. he didn t run on his record. but the fact of the matter is, nothing that has been said by the democrats stounds me like it will be very satisfactory. patty murray says she doesn t mind going over the fiscal cliff. dick durbin says we can t take up entitlements this year and