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Strategizing, legislating in a way we have never seen before, working with the senate republican leader of the house and doing it as well as masterfully as he had done when working with democrats getting things through. >> thats true. it was noteworthy because of that cooperation. i want to say we should think back. david mentioned the surprise bounty of things that got done in the wake of the midterm in 2010. lets think back eight months ago. everyone was hanging crepe on the white house. peopl...

Extramarital affair at that time. one of several as it turns out. that is like the, you know, neon glowing hypocrisy asterisk that will always float over that particular and particularly weird time in american political history. you know what, newt gingrich was not the only one. in 1998 in the middle of the whole clinton impeachment misch goss, there was a midterm election, the 98 midterm, and the presidents party, historically speaking always does poorly during midterm elections, and so histori...

Honablyhon-- honorably and well. shes a bit too hawkish for me and oftentimes not as progressive as id like. i think that bernie sanders would give her the push from the left that she needs. and i think ultimately this is -- this is good for her. she seems to have embraced his campaign publicly at least. i hope she means that -- in part because barack obama became a better candidate, alex, because hillary clinton pushed him. and i believe that when we are pushed, our better angels come out. we b...

American products abroad on a level playing field. wed like to see tax reform. wed like to see taxes lower in a simplified code. we think that would good for the country. and wed like to see regulatory certainty. in our business theres a long lead time to be able to react to those things. >> manager after manager has come in here and said that the epa rules have actually become quite onerous and are getting in the way of growth. >> obviously, you know, we spend a lot of time with the epa and nit...

The adoption rates that we thought we would. >> i think its a really good point. is that the reason that the electric sort of revolution hasnt necessarily gained traction yet? i mean you came out with an electric car way before a lot of people or talked about it certainly way early. yet, it didnt gain traction. so what is it going to take to actually get people to buy into this and believe it? >> you have to have compelling product. we have a full lineup of electrified vehicles, conventional hyb...

Reversal of the 08 cycle. democrats came out of 2006 with a huge midterm election the base was energized, didnt want the establishment to pick their candidate and they went with obama defying the system. republicans are in that exact same situation after a big midterm election in 2014. they dont want to settle for jeb bush and what i see on the ground from people in iowa regardless of political affiliation, they see hillary clinton as the democrats jeb bush the democrats mitt romney. what differ...

That caused tempers to flare even higher. >> mary when you look at the facts, the republicans won the midterm in november the nomination has been 131 days which is longer as i said than any attorney general in recent memory and recent history, recent american history. they first said they wanted to deal with the president on his immigration executive action now its the sex trafficking bill, which now they want to come in with an abortion part. what is going on here? and why would they use a sex ...

. >> lets say the republican nominee is jeb bush. who do we do when he takes a look at the economy. jobs, a lot of jobs have been created. the stock market has record highs. the nasdaq, the dow jones. what does he do about that? >> theyll talk about incomes and wages. kind of the risk for a bush in particular is you had 22 million jobs under bill clinton in his two terms in the 90s. you could have 12 million or so jobs under barack obama created. you could have 1.2 million under eight years of a...

Failing. then in 2010, they even beat that. the 1994 midterm was a pick up of 54 seats. in 2010, the first term of the obama presidency, the republicans got 63 seats in the house. that is how john boehner became speaker. they had a huge year. that was nowhere near their biggest victory that year. the republican state leadership committee started a project they called the redistricting majority project, or red map for short. and for this red map project they started raising a lot of money. it was...

Exercises. sending a message to putin, well put people in poland. >> i think in the baltics, weve beefed it the presence there in the last 18 months. more of that is certainly in the cards. theres a lot that can be done in terms of signaling things like that but i doubt it will be decisive. >> congressman, any thoughts in congress what kind of unified response we could have? >> joe, ive been advocating for some time to provide defensive arms to ukraine. the administration has given putin lots of...