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>> that is how donald trump was during the campaign. mitch mcconnell has said it would be helpful if you stop tweeting. this is kind of the back drop to his entire presidency when we try to get the play book out in the morning we wait to see what the president is going to say and what the reaction is on capitol hill. i know all top leadership aides are hitting themselves in the head. this is infrastructure week. in a normal washington the president would be talking about infrastructure every sin...

How mainstream media are the ones trying to push him off twitter. mainstream media reports on his tweets. these are the only presidential statements we have. these are a lot of times the only words we get from the president himself. is it mainstream media telling him to stop using twitter or should it be his advisers? >> this is how mainstream media is attracting higher ratings. >> loving it is editorializing what we are doing. we are reporting. >> it is great press. im not saying you like what ...

The knowledge of history. and i come from a people who lost 6,000 people a day gassed in auschwitz. any greater know what is sean spicer should know. is shakopee spicer not very smart or very competent? in either case, he should not be the spokesperson for the president of the united states. >> there are other people, we just had ari fleischer on, a former press secretary. he is also on the board of the jewish republican committee. >> uh-huh. >> he was taking a more forgiving tone towards what s...

Governor. the governor and his allies have spent the better part of the year trying to wrestle back control of the party from ron paul and rand paul allies. kauffman announced his goal to raise $300,000 immediately after elected saturday. lets move from iowa to kentucky where elizabeth warren made her latest stop as she crisscrosses the country trying to support democratic candidates. shes in a red state, folks. yesterday she campaigned with secretary of state allison lundgren grimes who is ru...

Agency of veterans affairs. good morning from new york, its monday, june 30th, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." lets get right to my first reads of the morning. parents around the country have been getting their kids report cards in the mail. perhaps last week, perhaps this week. but theres no more pathetic report card than the one from washington. six months into 2014 and were in a very bleak place. the federal government may technically still be running. we dont have a debt ceiling crisis ...

Terms of stimulating the economy. >> well, dan, it does seem like the only thing that could change the actions in washington is for the voters to speak. but i dont sense that the voters are ready to just sort of rebel full bore against everybody here in washington. >> no, it doesnt seem that way, chuck. were clearly still in a period in which were divided red and blue and everything as we watch heading toward november seems in those two channels. the republicans have seen this year all along as ...

Focus the public on just how bad it is in washington, but it was striking to us going through this six-month report card, things have -- its like watching a slow erosion and then you look from january to now and you went oh, my god, things really did get bad. >> that was a pretty bleak report you put together, i must say as you reviewed the whole year. i think the striking thing is, you know, we started the year with only, as you say, a little bit of optimism. i think things have gone much worse...

Matters richard engel is with us along with david ignatius of the "washington post." let me go with you, richard, what do you make of this? it didnt seem -- whats the right word? it didnt seem to be freighted right. hes quitting over an extramarital affair, but why is he telling us about this? it doesnt seem like the normal washington scandal developing here. whats going on? >> well, the timing, we may have some new indications about the timing based on the information im about to say. this is w...

Right word? it didnt seem to be freighted right. hes quitting over an extramarital affair but why is he telling us about this? it doesnt seem like the normal washington scandal developing here. whats going on? >> well, the timing, we may have some new indications about the timing based on the information 50i78 about to say. this is what we know so the far and what weve been able to confirm and is reportable. of course, the cia director today resigned, and he cited that extramarital affair. also ...

Capito, the president said he was willing to he also called for beefing up irs enforcement. >> raising tacks on the wealthiest americans who have done extraordinarily well during the pandemic. it would mean opposing the very enforcement of the 2017 tax law. >> $1 trillion infrastructure plan is about more than rebuilding the nations crumbling roads and bridges. its a test for whether washington can work in the biden era and the president is making it harder for republicans to turn down the deal....