he said i m not going to comment on the value of the dollar. we ll have trade policies that will keep the dollar strong. you could see he was sounding more like a treasury secretary and less like talking shooting from the hip on that issue. so on the taxes front, he s going to be asked a lot of questions about taxes. you heard donald trump talk about taxes in a bit of daylight between him and paul ryan on taxes that landod the front pauj page of the wall street journal. they ll be more quiet on taxes as they try to work that out behind closed doors. he made a commitment during the campaign to lower taxes for everyone. and presumably, presumably that s going to be a high agenda issue for him. president-elect once again over at the trump international hotel for this luncheon. gloria borger, you were watching the hearings together with all of us. one thing about steve mnuchin, in the face of some angry, tough questions from some democrats, he didn t back down at all.
cheap. president obama in his news conference on friday defending his response to the syrian civil war coming his remarks after the fall of aleppo which was the center of rebel resistance. and back now with the panel. karl, the president said in the news conference, the only way that the u.s. could have successfully intervened was to make a major commitment of troops. of course we know what has ended up happening, which was the slaughter of 400,000 civilians. do you buy his argument? no. the president auj offers a strawman when he talks about the middle east. the choice of doing nothing or half a million boots on the ground. he could have destroyed the ear assets of assad after he dropped barrel bombs an used chemical weapons an denied him the ability to do that by air and he didn t. and he could have armed the moderate rebels when they were rebels and could have backed the initiatives of the saudis and
cheap. president obama in his news conference on friday defending his response to the syrian civil war coming his remarks after the fall of aleppo which was the center of rebel resistance. and back now with the panel. karl, the president said in the news conference, the only way that the u.s. could have successfully intervened was to make a major commitment of troops. of course we know what has ended up happening, which was the slaughter of 400,000 civilians. do you buy his argument? no. the president auj offers a strawman when he talks about the middle east. the choice of doing nothing or half a million boots on the ground. he could have destroyed the ear assets of assad after he dropped barrel bombs an used chemical weapons an denied him the ability to do that by air and he didn t. and he could have armed the moderate rebels when they were rebels and could have backed the initiatives of the saudis and
make no mistakes not a single republican candidate announced or potential is clearly and consistency supporting a path to citizenship. not one. when they talk about legal staff us that is code for second class status. so hillary clinton in las vegas on tuesday with a major shot across the major gop challenger. she endorsed this path to citizenship for undocumented workers and said republicans only advocate second class status for these workers. nicolle wallace is a republican strategist and also the auj offer of a new book madam president and we ll discuss her novel in a moment and a co-host on the view. this is the book the third in the installment of a series about a female president, go figure. go figure. mark murray says clinton has laid a trap for republicans.
and you say, announcement days are incredibly important and sets the tone for the campaign and i think he had the right tone and the campaign and he focused on liberty and balancing the budget smaller government and he even mentioned term limits for congress. something i m very much in favor of. what makes rand paul different from everybody else is as you were talking about, is his auj authenticity and going against the party on things like foreign policy. he said when it comes to terrorism, not only will i name the enemy, i will do whatever it takes to defend america from the haters of mankind. a different tone from what we ve heard before. how much of a problem is this going to be because maybe he is too much away from the isolationist and he loses his base of the people that love him the most but if he doesn t, he could be in trouble as well. i don t think it is inconsistent. it is consistent in fighting for