"I see that everybody is talking about the Republican Debates, but nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump campaign, before announcing them," he said.
president trump flirts with 40%. a report by house republicans criticizing the president taking down his job approval would have cost them seats. they may as well have headlined this the butler did it. you re laughing. i don t know any republican is going to win or lose their seat based on a report six months out. i think the economy, jobs, what happens in korea all of those things are far more critical. the russia issue in the minds of midterm voters the probably distracting democrats from the lunch pail issues they should be concentrating on. i want to talk about this with angus king. senator king, thank you for your time tonight, i appreciate it. good to be with you, casey. i want to pick up where our conversation left off and ask you about the house intelligence committee report. did you find it credible? i have to admit, i haven t
blown up in the way it has in recriminations and partisanship all over again. both sides talking about which side will be blamed if there s not a deal on daca, on the dreamers. or, in fact, if it s worse, there s no deal on a shutdown that requires, you know, so i think it s a sign of how things have gone in this presidency from time to time. president trump flirts with the idea of working across the aisle. and then very quickly gets pulled back because his base, gets mad at that. or he himself has an instinct that says i m not going to do that. because it hasn t produced any genuine bipartisan deals of any note. it s had the opposite effect if you thought it was even possible that there could be even more animosity between the parties when you have two members of the senate, republicans, who first said they couldn t remember whether the president said that, then went on sunday television and said, in fact, it didn t happen. and here was the reaction at that hearing just a short time