Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170812:14:52:00
Pressure on the whole legislative branch through the base. i was in an appropriations meeting one time and we were tweaking something on welfare reform and george bush was president. he went out and said they shouldn't balance the budget on the backs of the poor. the leading democrat got up, read the paper, the headline from it, killed it immediately. so the legislative branch can never, ever underestimate the bully pulpit power of the executive branch. so when the president goes in and says stuff like that, not really just talking to mitch mcconnell. he's talking to all the senators, saying l...