of the republican party as dan quayle was abruptly driven out of office by the election of bill clinton and al gore, bill kristol wrote a strategy memo for republicans about how to defeat bill and hillary clinton s health care reform legislation which everyone in washington at the time, including most republicans, believed was going to pass. but in those days bill kristol even as a private citizen was powerful enough in republican politics to strategically turn the republican congressional ship around, and the republicans did indeed defeat the clinton health care bill in congress. now that the republican party has become the trump party and bill kristol stands in opposition to everything that donald trump represents, bill kristol is ignored by the republican party and his frustration mounts. today he wrote this conservatives have spent over half a century disproving the claim that we are the stupid party. now, under trump, conservatism is embracing, indeed reveling in
of the republican party as dan quayle was abruptly driven out of office by the election of bill clinton and al gore, bill kristol wrote a strategy memo for republicans about how to defeat bill and hillary clinton s health care reform legislation which everyone in washington at the time, including most republicans, believed was going to pass. but in those days bill kristol even as a private citizen was powerful enough in republican politics to strategically turn the republican congressional ship around, and the republicans did indeed defeat the clinton health care bill in congress. now that the republican party has become the trump party and bill kristol stands in opposition to everything that donald trump represents, bill kristol is ignored by the republican party and his frustration mounts. today he wrote this conservatives have spent over half a century disproving the claim that we are the stupid party. now, under trump, conservatism is embracing, indeed reveling in
laura: she s kind of saying that voters don t really know what matters. is that a winning message? i must tell you i agree with mark s basic premise. she will run if she can run. she will say whatever she needs to say to win and what i took from that, laurel, is she trying to figure out what would get her elected. it didn t work. so now she is sort of blaming the electorate and doing what she has never done, which is to blame herself. frankly, when you lose an election, you ve got to be introspective. so far, i haven t seen that from her. laura: mark, one of the other things i think some folks thought after they read your piece which was a fascinating piece was that back in 2007, your strategy memo, you said obama was unelectable. except against attila the hun.
is that a winning message? i must tell you i agree with mark s basic premise. she will run if she can run. she will say whatever she needs to say to win and what i took from that, laura, is she trying to figure out what would get her elected. it didn t work. so now she is sort of blaming the electorate and doing what she has never done, which is to blame herself. frankly, when you lose an election, you ve got to be introspective. so far, i haven t seen that from her. laura: mark, one of the other things i think some folks thought after they read your piece which was a fascinating piece was that back in 2007, your strategy memo, you said obama was unelectable. except against attila the hun. back in march 19, 2017. i can t imagine america electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally american in his
mueller. this particular article of impeachment claims that the fbi and doj haven t turned over documents as part of the oversight committee s investigation of the fbi. i m on the oversight committee. i have seen thousands and thousands of documents. hundreds and hundreds of text messages from various employees. i can tell you that the fbi and doj have turned over almost everything asked of them except for the strategy memo that mueller has written detailing the strategy behind his prosecution of the current case. that shouldn t be turned over. this particular impeachment resolution is just a total media stunt. it s not going to go anywhere. if the house leadership is really serious about it, they would call it for a vote, which they re not. thank you both for joining us. thank you. thank you. coming up, officials admit they will not meet today s court-ordered deadline to finish reuniting families separated at