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Christmas, julie. bill: let s get to bret baier. good morning to you. it s all the talk, right? as to how this thing came together. what are you hearing on the inside about why or perhaps what it means? well, there is a lot of people scratching their heads this morning. a lot of them republican leadership. but the white house is saying, as mike points out, that they wanted to clear the decks to set the table for tax reform. the problem with that argument is that it now creates more of a fiscal cliff on december 15th. more leverage for democrats who now have a bigger chip in the middle of likely the tax reform debate that will be going on at that time. they have a debt ceiling vote. the negative side here is that republicans now have to again take a very painful vote to raise the debt ceiling. they now have to again deal with all of this. they were hoping to just do one ....
His spokesman. and what these tweets do is, i m speaking for myself. but the problem is, as mike points out, he needs to change the subject back to his agenda. because that s what can get him out of this, you know? and they need to kind of separate the white house and have the damage control team and the agenda people and the president needs to be with the agenda people. and they re trying to do that, to gloria s point. they have said, you know, we re referring everything to marc kasowitz, when you ask who s not speaking. who s not speaking. and guess who is speaking? donald trump. that s always the problem. he gets in the way of and just real quickly, an investigation is not guilty. right. it doesn t mean he s guilty. they could go through this investigation and come out and say, we found nothing. no obstruction. and mr. president, i say if you passionately argue you ve done nothing wrong, stop talking about it. and the story about the vice president hiring outsi ....
They re all working for us, right. david: rich, i saw you give a thumbs up for what mike said and it looks like bruce is here, too. yeah, that would have been the end of harry reid and many others, too. david: do you think they go for it in the beltway? unless there s a mental health association that might be for it. david: that s the problem. once you re in the beltway you want to stay there no matter what. that s why the term limits never gets going. of course, but we re talking symptoms rather than the real problem. if we re going to talk about the constitution, the constitution severely limits the power of the federal government. if we lived within constitutional means, washington did, we wouldn t have to worry about this. david: absolutely. it s a great document, let s stick to it. the cashin in getting ready to roll the bottom of the hour, eric, with a what have you got? the president has a rally and one is the economic agenda. ....
Said he was crazy and erratic and not meant for the white house. they re going to fail now. they won t let it go. if they want to be vigilant. we should be vigilant about everyone in power and the administration. mike has a compromise. i think he would be in favor of the changes to the 25th amendment if, what, mike? if they agreed to test all members of congress first, before they tested the president for their mental competence. [laughter] the guys, men and women in congress have been there for decades, why we re in this mess of economic growth and huge deficit. david: bruce, a lot of people that are questioning the president s mental stability at this point, a lot of the democrats, some of them are older, much older than he is, some are into their 80 s. yeah, i don t have issues with what mike says. i think these people should get a regular health checkup, mental health checkup and everybody should be all in. ....
folks are still talking about this show-stopper. singer joy villa turning heads on the grammy red carpet with her make america great again dress and since making her political fashion statement, she sold 15,000 albums in just two days. mike, is there a pro-trump market out there? definitely. and we knew that before we saw that beautiful dress. trump carried 30 states before he became president. he was a tremendously successful real estate developer and had a tv show. david: sabrina when you said that beautiful dress, i saw her eyebrows, she may have a fashion statement, but it shows, does it not, for all the talk that trump is a killer for commercial markets sometimes, it works? absolutely does. everybody doesn t live in los angeles, right? the fact is, there s a lot of ....