Page 238 - Split Screen News Today

Because the president who has a reputation for youre fired, as you say, really likes to do it at a distance. he prefers attacking on twitter than in person, but what he really loves as a veteran of reality tv is to organize the media display and he, i believe, is trying to consciously create a split screen on thursday. there is the kavanaugh hearing on one side of why you are screen, the other is rosenstein going up to kiss the ring and possibly get his head lopped off professionally at the whit...

Policy. >> his services at the united nations building. hes got the rosenstein hearing coming up. he says imçó focusing on other things today. >> he focuses on fáwhats in frt of him on a given day. theres a lot of talk about what happens to rod rosenstein.w3 i dont think anyone is quite sure what will happen at the end of that day. in the meantime, the second nominee. they are going to a high stakes hearing. its crazy. >> a split screen moment in this presidency. let me bring in bill richards...

>> you talk about the split screen. on thursday when this happens this will quite literally be all three branches of american government in turmoil at once. you will have congress holding a hearing on the supreme court where the president is talking about using his power to fire someone investigating him. three branches at once in turmoil. carrie, there is a question, im not quite so sure its as dire a question as others think, but there is a question about the difference between firing rosenste...

Conservative freedom party republicans. others think its a set up by liberal democrats. colonel mustard must have done it in the parlor. no one knows whats going on. hannity is giving trump good advice. it will hurt the republicans if he fires or forces the resignation of rosenstein. it will give the people that are maybe on the middle more of a feeling that there-needs to be the democratic check on this president and it will hurt the republicans in the mid-terms. thats what sean hannity will te...

He is 2:00 eastern, 11:00 pacific. this sets up major split screen moment on thursday because the other big story that all of us were covering up until this news broke is what is going on with judge brett kavanaugh who seems to be in jeopardy at the moment. theres real questions about whether he will end up on the supreme court. that hearing will go down at the same time that donald trump at some point in that day will meet with rod rosenstein. theres really only three outcomes. he gets fired, r...

Enormous amount of pressure. what led up to their conversations with mitch mcconnell after getting coat hangers mailed to them and being targeted by ad campaigns. they told him that there is no other choice than to have this hearing because like nina said, grassley was trying every which way prior to this just to have a current call, some kind of a private event where both sides could air their side of the story and that did not happen. the question now is what good can come of this for the proc...

Cbs was supposed to be airing the baseball playoffs, but even they put up a split screen, braves/pirates on one side, hill and thomas on the other side. when it was over, it was a he said/she said controversy. thomas was confirmed, hes still on the court today. but it also set off a backlash, the next year in 1992, women mobilized, they ran for office, supported each other, did it in numbers unheard of, the year of the woman, patty murray, dianne feinstein, many more all made their big leaps in ...

And sound in a studio, as we look at the split screen here. >> yeah. >> okay, so, lets talk about whats really getting a lot of attention. and that is, president trump revisiting femas response and his administration response to hurricane maria, what was a disaster, an abject failure. 3,000 pile died. eerily, almost the exact same number as on 9/11. yet, the president tweets this. we got a-pluses for our recent hurricane work in texas and florida and did an unappreciated great job in puerto rico...

That listen to donald trump and see the showmanship and go, well, yeah, the economy has gotten a lot better under him. no, if you just look at hard fast economic numbers, the rate of growth, the rate of -- you know, whether you look at the s&p or whatever, its about the same under donald trump as it was under barack obama who actually inherited the worst economy since 1932. >> well, joe, i think its interesting that, you know, first of all, we should compare apples to apples and lets wait until ...

Defeat cla claire mccaskill. mccaskill and holly have been neck and neck in the polls all year. fast forward to friday he heads for mississippi. we could really see a repeat of the split screen obama versus trump dynamic because the former president, mr. obama, having kicked off a two month campaign blitz to help democrats, well hes going to campaign in cleveland, ohio, this thursday for democratic gubernatorial candidate richard cor dray and betty sutton. back here in washington were going to b...