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Wife. interesting read. thank you for coming in. politics is increasingly polarized within the parties themselves. what do you see when you look at the political landscape right now, james? >> as one of the senior members on the commenting crew over the years, you know, i've seen a number of these midterm elections before, and what i actually realize is how much this resembles some other big wave elections we've seen before. would you like me to list some of them? >> sure. >> i have four in mind. one is 1974 when richard nixon resigned, was the so-called watergate baby's election where the dem...

The whole article is that they're not prepared for the oncoming onslaught. again, a lot of this assumes, of course, that democrats take control of the house of representatives. we lived through something similar when the republicans took the house and the senate in 1994. speaker gingrich in particular instructed the committees and subcommittees to just begin to launch investigations. you know, i did not much more than -- that's not true. the bulk of my work as white house counsel had to do with government investigations. particularly over on the house side but also on the senate side. so you k...

I think the big cruise ship just came in. i want to switch one big story last week and that is the trade war between the u.s. and countries around the world. this month alone, president trump has hit china with tariffs on $34 billion of imports and set in motion tariffs on another hundred $16 billion of chinese goods. beijing is retaliating. we've also imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum from canada, mexico and the european union and they are striking back. here's pushback from house republican speaker paul ryan to president trump's trade policies. >> they are unquestionably bad actors, espe...

Firearms in schools. i'm wondering if that's in the range of ideas that the president is open to and if you can discipline a little bit more about how the president and white house is going to run this process in terms of taking in ideas from everybody. >> i haven't be spoken to him about speaker gingrich's plan. over the next several days and weeks, how we'll run that process is taken a lot of information from individuals that have been affected, specifically by school shootings as well as those that hope they never have to be in that same situation and talking to state and local law enforcem...

Capacity to address these concerns and certain little when it comes to mental illness. >> would the president consider granting mr. kushner a full clearance even if the background check suggested -- >> it's not aware of any red flags. it's irresponsible to suggest that without having seen any individual's file. and secondly, i haven't spoken to the president about whether or not that would be necessary. but again, as said, mr. kushner's work that he has done will not be impacted. he will continue to do the work he's done the last year. >> has it ever overruled -- >> i'm not aware. >> former sp...