How long must a team suffer? How long has a team suffered? This is the third of several posts looking into the playoff droughts of 30 of the 32 active NHL franchises to figure out what went wrong and how it ended. This post covers Dallas, Detroit, Edmonton, Florida, and Los Angeles.
on that. secretary mnuchin is correct. i don t want to make any predictions on that. these are very difficult and very important. the only comment i ll make is, and i ve said this before, the scope of these talks will be the broadest and deepest in u.s.-china history. we ve never had anything this comprehensive. and i regard that as a big plus. how these things are worked out we ll have to wait and see. the president has expressed some, i would say, guarded optimism about the talks. they re coming with their top people and it s important and our top people will be negotiating. it s encouraging to me that everything is on the table. i know that s a cliche . in trade talks it is, too. having said that i want to reiterate, i don t recall whose point it was, enforcement issues will be very important. i know ambassador lighthizer
analogy has become kind of a cliche but it was never more true than yesterday. just a fire hose of news coming out. any one of those stories would have been a story of the year perhaps for a previous administration. the one we ve been talking about on set is the one you just mentioned which was that gun meeting where you had a republican president of the united states laying out on live television the case for gun control. and it was no slip of the tongue. he went through taking guns before due process, raising the age to 21, floated the possibility of an assault weapons ban, no concealed carry reciprocity, expended background checks. stunned republicans sat and watched the performance and democrats couldn t believe it. we re going to talk about that and more in a little bit. let s get into who s here. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department, national political reporter for nbc news, associate editor of the washington post