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Let me ask you, ashley, there s a great story in axios today taking a big picture of everything that hasn t worked for the president or isn t working right now. the headline is the incredible shrinking president. some of the examples they quote is that speaker ryan, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell are going their own way on tax refor, james mattis didn t embrace the president s full ban on transgender troops immediately. the justice department won t crop the russia probe. congress isn t pay for the wall. senate didn t pass his health care reform bill. the point of the article written by mike allen was that had the president perhaps done something differently on charlottesville and now faced with harvey, also treated that differently, we might all be talking about this late summer pivot that president donald trump has made. but in fact, what we are seeing is more of the same that we ve seen for the last 223 days. yeah, that s exactly right. it was a striking list. i will say th ....
Two ago, and he set this up perfectly because many of those trump slow theers do already blame congress. they say well, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, these republicans, these democrats, they re just giving him a hard time. if they would only do what he says. he s not giving them any kind of direction however and he is setting it up with speeches like this for congress to take the blame in the end when somebody has to take the blame. it s not going to be the democrats because they re not in control of in ig. but the blaming congress trick does kind of work. they rank in terms of popularity somewhere around car dealers and journalists. let me ask you, ashley, there s a great story in axios today taking a big picture of everything that hasn t worked for the president or isn t working right now. the headline is the incredible shrinking president. some of the examples they quote is that speaker ryan, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell are going their own way on tax refor, james mattis d ....
Reform plan. i think they re calling it tax relief. it might be tax cuts. there is no plan. at some point someone may need to point out the emperorer doesn t have clothes on on tax refor. the white house says they re leaving it to the folks in congress who have oversight to handle that themselves. from what we understand from the white house, the speech tomorrow will focus on sort of the why of tax reform. why it s important, why now. less about how the president intends to get there. and they re going to frame it in a nationalist pop uist way essentially saying they re trying to unrig the economy and one of the ways is through this tax overhaul. it s true that it gets the president on road and in front of people. we know from the last seven months of his time in office that s what he craves. anita, do you think it is going to mean he s going to approach tax care differently than health care? that was the one big criticism. there was a lot. one big criticism is he didn t ....
As david just mentioned, there was the access hollywood video. there was saying senator john mccain not a war hero because he was captured, attacking john mccain, mika brzezinski and megyn kelly. it seems like no what happens, they just continue to support him. do you think this time it s going to be different? david says they re not ready to jettison him now, throw him overboard. what do you think? i think david s right. that s the big question here. there are a lot of republicans saying i think pretty vocally that they disagree with the president s behavior, that they refuse to listen to his agenda that they believe that some of the things that he s said and done are not befitting of the office. at the same time, they kind of want the same agenda that he does. and when push comes to shove, when it s time to pass tax refor, he i think it s going to be hard for a lot of republicans to be on a different page from ....