venture. welcome home! lawmaker is back in session. feeling the love from constituents in their districts. given the choice that was before us by far donald trump was the better choice by far. by far. shepard: there s a taste of it. how and senate republicans facing protesters, loud booing, heated questions about, among other things, obama care, president trump in general and other issues. there s lots of videos on youtube and instagram if you choose to look around. president trump supporters urged to give him a chance. some lawmakers are staying away from hosting public q&a sessions. a number of republicans getting in the ring today. trace gallagher is live with more. for example, shep, chuck grassly held a town hall in
the campaign is getting serious and heating up. but i think they re banking on the fact that these questions will go away. it s like watching an armored car through iowa. it doesn t feel like a real campaign. and she can do that. she can afford do it for a while, i think. she s extremely popular in her party. and her name i.d. is through the roof. certain questions that aren t a concern for her. but it doesn t feel like an organic campaign despite the q&a sessions with the voters that they picked. and don t you think that it would be of tremendous benefit for her get to get roughed up and get out there. i ve never actually strategized a successful campaign, but i won t let that stop me. i think the problem is i understand why when the clinton team looks at the polls they
was in. it s not like the library or the dining room. i m not playing clue here, i m trying to get a sense of how involved he was. bill: i mean, you worked at the white house. was it typical to get a readout of the hour to hour if you requested it or not? well, it depended on the situation. if it was a success like the takedown of bin laden, we not only knew every place that president obama was, we also had pictures to demonstrate and, you know, to chronicle where he was. in a case like this where things went very badly, they re trying to separate him as much as possible from it. bill: chris, thank you. we ll check you out on sunday too. i know you re going to sit down with john mccain, he was just in the middle east, returned from a trip to cairo, egypt. that should be fascinating, getting his perspective. chris wallace, fox news sunday and the exclusive with senator mccain. check your local listings. thank you, sir. patti ann: and a little more context on the president s q&a sessio
countries that have really only that are so recently opening their doors and allowing press in. two years ago you would have gone to jail for talking to us in myanmar, yet people were remark pably open. just about everyone we spoke to during the show had been in and out of prison for having an opinion. in other words, you just go up to people and speak to them. you didn t need some government handler to authorize these kind of little q&a sessions? they certainly had to authorize us and get us permits to go in, but, shockingly enough, we did not have a government minder following us around. and people just random passersby in the street didn t shy away from the camera the way they do in a lot of countries even many years after they open up. people seemed extraordinarily eager to talk to us. they were curious. and there s a sense that the whole country is kind of holding their breath to see what happens next. it really is amazing when you
future. george w. bush held fewer solo news conferences than obama but held three times as many impromptu q&a sessions. would you consider extending the debt ceiling? keith now edits white house dossier.com. he describes the white house as nixonian to silence the press corps. i ve never seen president so inaccessible to his own press corps. occasionally he will curse out a report fare story they know is a legitimate story. if this were bush doing that, i think you would hear a lot more protests. you re wrong, bret. bret, bret mitt romney is no more enamored of the press and though he gave eight interviews with national outlets and fielded two from british press last month, both romney travelling press corps