demands. special safety net programs to be tested. he wants to roll back the trump tack cuts including carried interest. he has a whole lot of things that he cares about. now, he did not say that this was a hard and fast number and he wasn t flexible at all. he said, you know, we re going to negotiate. so, somewhere between $3.5 trillion and $1.5 trillion is where they ll end up, if they can get a deal among themselves. bret: that s a big if, trey. saying we re going to vote against this infrastructure bill if we don t have a deal, a vote on reconciliation. yeah, bret. i give credit to the progressives in the house. they watched very carefully as the freedom caucus on the republican side proved you can get a lot more famous opposing your own leadership instead fighting with the other side. fame has become the ultimate political virtue.
looking at every different angle here and he is working through many different channels on these and willing to bring different people to the table, and i think that shows what you just heard there. you know what, you carry a big stick, you talk quietly, you don t let everybody know what you re going to do exactly, and you leave every option on the table while you can, and that keeps people protected and also safe in this country. before trump was elected, you ll recall he said he didn t want to be the policeman of the world, but he also said, usa point out, he wants to be flexible when it comes to foreign policy. let s listen to his own words for a moment. megan, i have a very strong, i have a very strong quote. but i have never seen a successful person who wasn t flexible, who didn t have a certain degree of flexibility. you have to have a a certain a certain degree of flexibility. you have to show a degree of flexibility. if you are going to be one way and you think it is wron
when politicians break promises and change positions they prefer evolution to flip-flop. mark week 13 of the trump presidency as downright evolutionary. in days he did an about-face on fed chairman janet yellen, labeling china the currency manipulator and relevance of the nato alliance. i complained about that a long time and they made a change and fight terrorism. i said it was obsolete. it s no longer obsolete. whip lash is the term used often this past week as the president tossed campaign promises out to the scrap heap. his explanation? he s flexible. whether you re mad or happy at all the shifts you can t say he didn t warn us. i ve never seen a successful person who wasn t flexible, who didn t have a certain degree of flexibility. you have to have a certain degree of flexibility.
democrats were in the minority and we used the language take back the majority. most americans didn t recall 6, 10, 12 years before. they wanted a pro-active positive message. democrats have to be careful of talking about the past. if we can t to draw the position between george bush and barack obama, one of the great short comings of president bush was he wasn t flexible. president obama can t be inflexible when it comes to debt. i hope they offer ideas before september. he ought to extend the tax rates around capital gains and dividend taxes for the simple reason you don t want to spook investors or spook the markets anymore which obviously will have an impact on job creation which could increase unemployment if we don t do it the right way. finally, politics is politics. there will be back and forth and american people expect some of
one, i was in the house when democrats were in the minority and we used the language take back the majority. most americans didn t recall 6, 10, 12 years before. they wanted a pro-active positive message. democrats have to be careful of talking about the past. if we can t to draw the position between george bush and barack obama, one of the great short comings of president bush was he wasn t flexible. president obama can t be inflexible when it comes to debt. i hope they offer ideas before september. he ought to extend the tax rates around capital gains and dividend taxes for the simple reason you don t want to spook investors or spook the markets anymore which obviously will have an impact on job creation which could increase unemployment if we don t do it the right way. finally, politics is politics. there will be back and forth and