He catapulted to first place the moment he opened up on the media. He did it twice. And that wasnt spontaneous. Nothing that Newt Gingrich does is spontaneous. Hes a master strategist, and it was the right thing to do, and it catapulted him into first place. Look, everybody talks about how unpopular the congress is. The media are even more unpopular than congress. Their Approval Rating is about 8 . Thats nothing to write home about. Its not a very wise thing to go out to Middle America and say, hi, im a reporter for the Washington Post. Thats going to win you friends. It should be. It should be the position of a candidate running to give them one chance to say at the outset im going to give you one chance to be fair and balanced. If youre not, im coming after you. Im going to make you the issue in this campaign. And it will take no effort whatsoever to do that. But i always believe to give them an opportunity, always give them the first opportunity, then eviscerate them. [laughter] yes
Conflict best left alone by the world . Well have a great debate. And what do the protesters in hong kong and the people of america have in common . A lot says my guest, lawrence lessig. Indeed, the americans, he said, should be even more upset than the umbrella protesters. Ill let him explain. Then Anthony Bourdain on his trip to iran. The food, the people, the culture behind the politics in the Islamic Republic. But first here is my take. Can arab countries be real democracies . Well, one of them, tunisia, just did well on a big test. More than 20 years ago the scholar Samuel Huntington established his famous twoturnover test for fledgling democracies. He argued a country can only be said to be a consolidated democracy when there have been two peaceful transitions of power. Tunisia passed huntingtons test after last weekends election when for the second time a ruling establishment agreed to hand over power. Tunisias relative success is in marked contrast to the abysmal failure of egy
Consideration. The cdc is reevaluating the intensity with which theyre training. In fact dr. Frieden yesterday in his press conference made it very, very clear they are going to intensify the training in several important ways as opposed to assuming that hospitals are going to be aggressive in training their staf staff. Critics say no one should lay the blame on nurses but rather on Health Officials for not doing enough Emergency Training in hospitals. I want to discuss this all. Joining me now, Elizabeth Cohen and dr. Jorge rodriguez. Both of you have been incredible as we cover this story. We now know that often times nurses are on the front lines, more hands on with the patients than perhaps the doctors we know this nurse wore a mask, a gown, a shield, gloves, we know this patient was in isolation yet she got ebola. What possibly could have gone wrong . Where was the point of weakness . Michaela, as you suggested it may be because they werent necessarily using the right type of equi
Republican lawmakers say they are now focusing on their tax plan. A giant. Beautiful giant, beautiful, massive. Biggest ever in our country tax cut. It will be rocket fuel for our economy. Go gonna be a good life gonna be a good life good life good life. Pete you actually have a beautiful voice. Pete she does. Thats why i was closing my eyes. What a wonderful way to wake up. If you are joining us this morning we didnt know that song was coming either. What a beautiful start. Abby we all had a busy week. Interviewing the president. Out on the road interviewing fans at green bay. Todd it was awesome. I dont care what Football Team you root for the people of green bay are salt of the earth. Thank you for your hospitality. We got the pulse of the people. Gosh, i dont think we had one person who said i agree with kneeling. We asked as many people as we could, black, white, all races, everybody said the same thing. Hand over the heart. We are going to get to that throughout the course of the
Operative while he was Trumps Campaign chairman. So more on that in just a second. Lets get back to the white house and that meeting between trump and congressional leaders under way in the situation room and a lunch with the Senate Republicans on the hill the last hour. Senator susan collins, a republican, who has called for the shutdown to end was saying there was, quote, vigorous discussion. Another senator telling cnn that trump was lively but not confrontational so lets go separate to abby phillip for a bit more color on these meetings and what these different folks are saying, so, you know, another day, another meeting, more negotiating. Will this move the needle . Reporter thats a really great question, brooke. Weve been asking for days on whether or not anything is changing on the shutdown front that President Trump is saying today what hes been saying for quite some time, that he wants his border wall and thats the message he delivered to republican senators on the hill. Accor