he wasn t you know, he said that he believed in jesus christ as his personal savior and people said no, you didn t. and he has been knocked around and treated like a second-class citizen as president of the united states by a third of the american public. and then he wins a big victory and immediately he s hearing from people like us, you ve got to be gracious to those people. politics is sort of a rough and ugly game at times. i m glad there are more women in washington. unfortunately for the president, it s going to be hard for him to now go to his people and go to his base and say i want me to drive the stake through their hearts. this is not 2009. we don t own 59 senate seats or a huge majority in the house. it requires a completely different skill set, steve, doesn t it, negotiations, which you do a different negotiation every day, and each one requires a different skill set. you re an elegant negotiator. i hope so, thank you. yeah, i agree totally. i think that s the wa
crack. you keep me in the liberal arts building, i m going to get an a. and i could even drink as much as julia. oh, my lord. and still get an a. this has got to end. but i ll tell you, when you and huey, i could get an a, but you get me in science class or math class, ooh, ugly. rubio gave a very interesting answer to gq last month when asked about the age of the earth. and he took some grief for it because he said, in part, that he was not qualified to answer the question. actually, he said, i m not a scientist. calling it one of life s great mysteries. at a politico breakfast yesterday, mike allen gave the senator a chance to explain that answer. so how old do you think the earth is? first of all, let me tell you about the answer i gave. the answer i gave was trying to make the same point the president made a few years ago. and that is there is no scientific debate on the age of the earth. i mean, it s established pretty
oh, let s see. i had a television show called m&m, the mika and melissa show. and then i worked on capitol hill. my father made me work for all the conservatives. i worked for jim buckley and then he lost his senate seat. and then i worked for jack kemp. we had a great time. in nashville, the meachams, a welcoming party. they re still being welcomed. al gore gave them the first one. they had a big old barbecue. al was very into the barbecuing in his backyard. how is al doing? he s having a good time. has he gotten over it? i think he s gotten over it. he s become a fine wine connoisseur. we had some very nice red wine over there. i bet he analyzes the chemical breakdown. he talks a s a little about wine. how s meacham doing?
correspondent for politico. he s busy! mike allen with a look at the playbook. good morning. that strut is on youtube, so check it out. oh, wow. we ll have to look that up. all right, mike. you ve been speaking a lot lately to senator marco rubio, had a sit-down conversation with him. i guess when you talked to him, you took another crack at that science question. clarify an answer he gave to gq when he was asked about the age of the earth. remember, senator rubio took a little grief, saying that he was not qualified to answer the question, calling it, quote, one of life s great mysteries. remember, i m not a scientist, man, the whole thing. yesterday, mike, i guess you spoke to him as part of the playbook breakfast and you gave him a chance to explain that answer. let s listen. how old do you think the earth is? first of all, the answer i gave was trying to make the same point the president made a few years ago, and that is there is no scientific debate on the age
that doesn t work between them. it doesn t. mika, listening to you speak what? one imagines that maybe you had experience growing up around strong, powerful men in washington, d.c., with egos. yes, perhaps. many, actually. like insufferable. with accents. it s all men. they don t know how to do it. they have to there s an art to it. i think joe s line i know, we re going to read that in must-reads. the victory will cost more than it s worth, and you ll get to it, i think that s what both sides, particularly the president s got to be mindful of because you don t want to expend too much and hurt yourself as you try to do some of these other things moving forward. it s going to be very hard for the president very hard after winning such, i think, a great victory. i mean, this is a man who, for four years, was told that he was an illegitimate president, that he was a socialist that he was not a citizen. that he was a marxist, that he wasn t even an a