I m sitting in, district 27 in florida, is held by a republican right now. but it is a plus democrat 6. district next door is plus democrat 5. both are held by republicans today. and if i were those republicans on the ballot in these districts in november i d be sweating bbs. now, where i do think that trump is right is that people he backs in the primary do win. yeah. he absolutely makes i think he s like 14 in a row. getting out the vote for republicans. now, what might be a win, aw short-term win in a primary, might end up being a short a long-term pain and anchor around their neck when it comes to the general. and you know, i think that is still to be seen. but we have seen that for example bernie sanders, alexandria ocasio-cortez, they didn t bring out the vote. their endorsement you know, we re in this era where endorsements really don t matter as much as they once did. but for donald trump s in a republican primary. there is no doubt that he moves
Now back to politics. congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle are reportedly set to meet with top white house officials wednesday on the agenda, spending an immigration reform. let s bring in kevin cirilli, chief washington correspondent for bloomberg tv and julia manchester, reporter for the hill. julia, what should we expect from this meeting? it s interesting. president trump will not be at the meeting, instead he ll be having general john kelly, his chief of staff, in his place, and we ll see mark shore and nick mulvaney sitting in, as well. it s going to be interesting because we ve seen democrats walk away from these meetings in the past and have claimed various concessions when the president was there. it will be interesting to see how these talks go with the people standing in his place. but i think we re going to see the white house try to really push the president s agenda, in that he wants to he has said
Sight. mcconnell would pretend to be busy to prevent a meeting being scheduled because he didn t want his base to see him with obama. what do you think of mcconnell s claim he would never stoop to such a level? ha ha ha! that laughter is on the record. what he said is factually inaccurate as has been widely reported this afternoon. he in fact skipped a meeting with the president to go speak before the federalist society. and i think there was at least one other time in the past when republican leadership refused to go down to the white house as well to negotiate with then-president obama. i mean, it s just not true. we re also, it strikes me, barbara, sitting in we re in the world that mitch mcconnell created. he sort of pioneered a kind of strategy for dealing with an opposition party president. and do you think the strategy today from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi of not going in response to that tweet was the
Violations and shortly before the end of the obama administration, they came down on julian castro for endorsing candidate clinton while sitting in housing secretary. that s right. so but is it like you get a parking ticket, you know, pay a fine? is it a minor deal? with regard to career federal employees, the office of special counsel can actually initiate a preceding in front of the protection board to take disciplinary action, but when it comes to a presidential appointee confirmed by the senate, the constitution only lets two people get rid of him, two things. one is the president can fire a presidential appointee and the other is the congress can impeach a presidential appointee. but the special council won t have the authority to take disciplinary action, him or herself. now, more interestingly, and perhaps more ominously for the president, his threatening phone call, his eruption with mitch mcconnell that happened back on
These changes. if you go to export import bank he said it s good for small business. companies. so he did not hesitate on any of these, he met janet yellen and liked her, respected her, sitting in the same chairs as myself and the colleagues that the wall street journal were sitting in, in the oval office. he left a lot of things open as trump tends to do sometimes and has more often now than he did during the campaign. erin joining us sneaking on set from the washington post, thanks for being back with us. the senior administration official is telling us here the president has always said that he wants to do whatever it takes to get these big cign promises done and not shifting. essentially the argument it s the destination and not the journey how you get there. are supporters going to buy that? that s a nice spin. these were things he said repeatedly on the campaign trail, not the first thing he s flip-flopped on. i do think there say tendency to