bill clinton, a similar question asked about bill clinton. it was a little more blunt. did clinton did anything illegal? did he break any laws? the answer there a majority 53% after releasing the starr report said yes. bill clinton broke the law. what do you do about it? you think trump amounted to obstruction of justice in plurality? what do you do about it? in donald trump's case, these are the numbers we've been seeing. should you impeach 37%? should you not? 56%. not a ground swell of support there. and with bill clinton after the release of the starr report it was even more emphatic, a better than two to one margin saying no. here is one other interesting comparison. this one from the nbc news journal poll. with bill clinton back in 1998 big picture day, should the whole thing be dropped or should there be more investigations about two-thirds we're saying just drop the whole thing, move on they were saying in our new nbc "wall street journal" poll a couple options do you begin impeachment? not a lot of support. is there no impeachment? 48%. but look at this. 32% sho

i'll go to bill clinton. for me when i see you, i think bill clinton, your old governor. country knew donald trump was an combexaggerator, it's bi dibs. does any of the stuff matter? >> it does matter when the president lies, with bill clinton. >> will it pla itself to his voters? >> to us it should matter. to his voters, no, it was baked in, just like bill clinton his personal issues were baked into the cake. >> i think it matters to voters. i think it matters to voters in 2018. ron's point is correct to his base it doesn't matter, to urban voters, independents up for grabs, the fact a president lied 8,000 times, not turning over his tax returns, he is doing everything against customary of a president. yeah, that turns off people. >> matthew, ten and 15 years removed from bill clinton. have you democrats wishing they didn't get as close to him as they did, how many republicans today are going to think, boy, why did i get so close on some of these things? >> oh, i mean, it's hard for me to say. so much depends, the democratic party shifted left after bill clinton. bill cl

nixon was in his second term, bill clinton was in his second term. no election that it was bumping up against. this president can be gotten rid of within almost the same time frame of impeachment if you just wait it out till the election. >> i do think about that a lot, but i think that this is a time where our democratic institutions are being tested, and they all really need to -- and the president breaks norms every day, and so i think it's incumbent on congress to be particularly vigilant in upholding its role. it looks to me as if what's in the mueller report is very serious, and they should pursue with their hearings, and if they find that leads them to impeachment proceedings, they should undertake that without regard to politics, because what happens the next time, right, when the president is literally considered above the law and democracies die when you have somebody who is an authoritarian position, comes to power, who breaks norms and the other party in an effort to defeat that person does the same thing. >> and, adam, what about the sen

was impeaching bill clinton. newt joins us in just a moment. but this thing keeps escalating in a brawl of words after the infrastructure meeting imploded yesterday. the president said basically call me when you're done investigating and then we will get some work done. nancy pelosi did not like that. so she called him basically unwell. >> i pray for the president of the united states. i wish that his family or administration or staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. >> are you worried about his well-being? >> i am. >> martha: the president was not happy about that. late today, he let her have it or the inaction on in new trade deal with canada and mexico that he wants signed. >> she's a mess. she doesn't understand it. they feel she's disintegrating before their eyes. crazy nancy. i've been watching her for a long time. she's not the same person. she's lost it. it was sad when i watched nancy all moving, the movement and the hands and the craziness. that's a person that has some problems.

his victims. >> bill clinton sexually assaulted innocent women and hillary clinton attacked the womenll clinton, far worse. mine are words and his was action. >> here brought bill clinton's accusers to the second presidential debate. i found a parallel. you may not like this, congressman. republicans make better lobbyists. they're on the side of the pigs. they like the guy trying to get less taxes and regulation. democrats make moan, but they feel guilty about it. there is a weird thing about democrats have shame, republicans don't. at least bill clinton doesn't. no shame. why does it work this way. bill clinton felt embarrassed by the monica thing. hillary was embarrassed even though she was the victim. why does trump not feel guilty and because he doesn't feel it, he doesn't look it. >> for whatever reason, stuff does not stick to trump. what he is doing when he embraces or brought the accuser won the election, but it department do anything to expand his base. he throws outlines or attacks that only feeds more rhetoric to his base. he is doing nothing to expand this. i don't think i

think back to bill clinton.ou had a majority saying bill clinton committed crimes, he did something illegal in the lewinsky affair. both of those cases, you had voters making a damning judgment about the president's conduct, criminal conduct in a lot of their view. where is it different? this is the key question. when it came to clinton 20 years ago, the question was asked should the investigation continue or end now? overwhelmingly it was end now. that's where the group move on got his start. censure him and move on. that's what they said about clinton. when you ask the question about trump, you get more gray. you get a small number here saying impeach, some saying move on. you have a lot saying keep the investigation going. you can see it when you compare the approval rating. trump's recent approval rate 44. clinton was near 60%. clinton had more of a foundation to fall back on. people were more willing to say let's end this and move on. >> you know who has been looking at those numbers based on sources i talk

you covered bill clinton, you covered bill clinton during monica lewinsky. times, he dismissed the ken starr investigation and he said, but i'm going to go back to work for the american people. remember that? i'm going to go back for the american people? what did donald trump do today? he said, i don't like what you're doing, you accused me of a cover-up, i'm not a cover-up guy -- i thought of stormy daniels, but never mind -- >> me too. >> -- i'm not a cover-up guy, and by the way, i'm not going back to work for the american people, i'm going on strike, and not do my job, and moreover, i'm not going to let you do your job. >> i remember when i was the white house correspondent for cnn covering bill clinton at the height of impeachment. and jeffrey toobin, you'll remember this well. even when newt gingrich, the speaker, was leading the fight on the house floor against then president bill clinton for impeachment, they were -- at night they would have private meetings to balance the budget, to deal with all sorts of other fiscal issues on behalf of the america

look at bill clinton being investigated.dent obama as being investigated. >> exactly. >> yet they were still able to make deals with people. >> right. >> the idea that everything shuts down because the president's upset, it just seems like somebody who is allegedly a great deal maker is throwing a tantrum. >> well, it was, you know, very bizarre. and in looking back on it, i think he was looking for an excuse not to have the meeting. that's only my perception. but we came with what we had promised in terms of our priorities. he was supposed to provide what he thought was the way to pay for this. he was willing to spend $1.5 trillion on a tax cut mainly for the wealthiest americans. so we're saying so how are you going to pay for this on infrastructure? >> on the flip side of it, though, was it wise for speaker pelosi to make these comments right before this meeting? because if democrats are truly interested in working with the white house, which some republicans say they're really not interested in having an infrastructure d

bill clinton was nominated. bill clinton won in 1992. how about 1996?epublicans need an opponent who could beat bill clinton. this guy, lamar alexander. remember him? he campaigned in 1996 for the republican nomination. he told republicans to remember their abcs. >> the former tennessee governor talks about new ideas, but the principle idea he is pushing is that he is electable. >> remember your abcs, alexander beats clinton. >> alexander beats clinton, he said. well, we'll never know. alexander was not able to beat dole in 1996 in the primaries. so he don't know if alexander could have beaten bill clinton, but he ran on it. 2000 is george w. bush/john mccain running for the nomination. the winner was going to face al gore. the vice president and john mccain showed him running 10, 15 points better against gore, and he tried the make that an issue. here's what he said. >> don't fear this campaign, my fellow republicans. join it. join it. >> mccain stressing he is the one republican who can win in november. >> i will beat al gore like a drum. >> that was

let's remember, bill clinton said, essentially, at some point, this must end. his remarks when he admitted his relationship with lewinsky. well, this president has said roughly the same thing. >> but also a big difference, i heard earlier, you know, rick santorum saying, well, the difference was bill clinton perjured himself. well, the difference is bill clinton put himself in a position to perjure himself, right? donald trump didn't perjure himself, because -- >> but mueller could have kept pushing, right? >> but had he done it, he almost definitely would have perjured himself. so the point is, he wasn't as available. he didn't -- i mean, bill clinton is the one who asked for the investigation in the first place. it's such a different situation where you have donald trump fighting it every step of the way. >> yeah, but i would also make one process point. you're right, it is processey, but when it comes to the congressional subpoenas coming and so forth, the two legal basis for those are legislative and oversight. and oversight doesn't include oversight of inv

you know as you remember he was not actually impeached, only andrew johnson and bill clinton have thatantel before them. richard nixon was a unindicted coconspirator. john michelle was convicted of obstruction of justice, conspiracy and perjury, he spent 19 months in prison, he could have spent up to 8 years, there were several other members of nixon administration who went to prison for this not for things like, lying to fbi or congress, they remember charged and convicted of more serious crimes, my point and i'm not defending president but i don't think that one can commit conspiracy and obstruction of justice on their own? >> they can't, and historic cases nixon, near impeachment, and the clinton actual impeachment, there were pending cases involving president in which president was very clearly involved there was very substantial evidence in bill clinton a case that he had perjuried himself in judicial legal proceedings, we had when we considered prime minister in house judiciary committee in 1998, was a report from the independent council ken starr, he was required by law to deliv

this time, they involved bill clinton. the newly elected president of the united states. when paula jones, you will recall, the longtime employee of the state of arkansas filed a lawsuit in may 1994, which alleged that clinton had commanded jones be brought to his hotel room at a time when he was governor of arkansas and he had, according to her, behaved abominably and attempted to persuade her to perform sexual acts before she escaped, shocked and shaken. once again, the public of the details of a sexual a counter and he said-she said over the truth. the fascinating thing is to compare thomas and hill and the national reaction to that to clinton and jones and the national reaction to that over time. these scandals produced competing, utterly polarized and very sensationalized storylines about each protagonist. they have a lot in common. on old these drew stereotypes about wanton women and black hypersexuality. and plot victimization lines that sympathizers were eager to believe. there were always these competing polarized narratives. some people so i need a -- some peopl

the senate they'll hardly vote against their own 3rd the last time the president was impeached bill clinton his approval rating soared in the aftermath by 10 percent no less you see now why trump himself is slightly provoking his opponents and is he talking about impeachment they like to use the impeach word impeached you can't impeach somebody that's doing a great job impeaching take it a preacher for any reason let's impeach him because the country is so successful we will update but i say how do you teach somebody the story great job do you impeach somebody because he created the greatest economic success in the history of our country right and wrong move things in politics approval and votes of what counts and this is why top democratic presidential candidates kanzi to shut out. about impeachment democrats voters 70 percent of them want impeachment the candidates want their votes the democrat leaders want to win the presidential election they know that if they rush an impeachment and fail it will hurt them like hell trump he's playing the victim he wants to see his opponents fail and ba

and when they impeached bill clinton he won reelection so nancy pelosi is been around long enough to understand that the public doesn't really care about this and they're fed up with this whole russia nonsense and so they know that even if they have pictures of the house it's going to fail in the senate and donald trump i believe really wants to be impeached he's kind of egging them on you know hey do it if you want it's a horrible word it's a terrible thing but he's kind of prompting them to i dare you to do it because i think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. taylor bring attention to another story being talked a lot about this week pick critism might be a sign of extreme far right tendencies that's according to the. british army a leaked document which dates back to 2017 has exposed the guide used by senior officers to indicate quote signs of extreme and intolerant behavior in the ranks according to the document officers should look out for those who describe multicultural tollens last personnel who are involved colleagues and close social media platforms the leaf

now when they impeached bill clinton he won reelection so nancy pelosi is been around long enough to understand that the public doesn't really care about this and they're fed up with this whole russia nonsense and so they know that even if they have pictures of the house it's going to fail in the senate and donald trump i believe really wants to be impeached he's kind of egging them on you know hey do it if you want it's a horrible word it's a terrible thing but he's kind of prompting them to i dare you to do it because i think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. 17 minutes past 5 pm here in moscow still to come the u.s. for a bronze age she'll get ourselves a product of freedom to win over potential buyers in europe we've got more after this. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next about different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. if you think. i'm going to talk about football not be o

now when they impeached bill clinton he won reelection so nancy pelosi has been around long enough to understand that the public doesn't really care about this and they're fed up with this whole russia nonsense and so they know that even if they have pictures of the house it's going to fail in the senate and donald trump i believe really wants to be impeached he's kind of egging them on you know hey do it if you what it's a horrible word it's a terrible thing but he's kind of prompting them to i dare you to do it because i think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. another one says it will consider the dutch the malaysian prime minister's concerns over the investigation into the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 17 of ukraine and 2014 tim ahmed says the international inquiry which alleged that russia was complicit in the atrocity was politicized and it's not found enough evidence to support its conclusions i also claim the malaysia has not been allowed to inspect the plane's flight recorders. the accusing the russians of planning. but what decent evidence you coul

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helpeda hill's testimony bill clinton get elected, and i think there is evidence that suggested did, it facilitated the conditions for his impeachment in 1998. paula jones, her tail was was captured by christian organizations who underwrote her legal case against clinton. these were friendly politicized politicizedofoundly events and it is no wonder that even today, the current debate over sexual harassment -- whether we are talking about donald trump or al franken, roy moore, brett kavanaugh, or even joe biden, that these are driven by political interests. it is possible that some liberals learned their lesson about the perils of ignoring harassment claims against democrats. nothing shows that more starkly than senator franken's rapid resignation or the kind of treatment even right now owing on against joe biden on the left. it is a harder thing to say whether that reckoning has taken place across the board. i think all of the events that were happening around justice kavanaugh's confirmation suggested that a full reckoning has really not yet come. nearly a full century after americ

former president bill clinton comes out swinging against brett kavanaugh.xt. >> s >> bill clinton arguing supreme court justice brett kavanaugh got what he deserved by being accused of sexual assault during his confirmation hearing because of the role he played as a young lawyer under kenneth starr decades ago. >> he didn't have any problem for over 3 years of what he knew was a total charade. >> bring the host of left coast news even bearman and seawright are at the heritage foundation, great to have you with us tonight. so what do you make of this? clearly the bad blood goes back several decades because the kenneth starr report investigating the clintons, we talked about this before, brett cavanagh was one of the investigators and he did spend years trying to get to the bottom of what happened including this. >> that led to the revealing of the scandal with monica lewinsky so there is bad blood between the two but i thought this remark was extremely revealing and i'm astonished that a former president would admit in front of the public that he supports us

you were and i with bill clinton, jonah, when bill clinton was under impeachment he would never havehis enemies and impeachment if he could help it. he wanted to actually look at least like he was trying to focus on the bit business. that worker's benefit. >> chris: i wet can't waste time on this. >> guys are dealing in the muddy stuff and i care about your problems. didn't get a lot done but his numbers were not. trump on the other hand can't help about talking buddy. engages in the fight. if the is what animates him and may be in the current moment with twitter and social media the president stomach prevalence of cable news. if that's the only way to do business, certainly the only way he knows how to do business. >> the biggest risk i would say for trump in this particular situation is that he comes across as seem like is more concerned with his own political will be linked to them that go to the country. that is a risk for him. >> chris: we have to take a break. when we come back over the president orders more forces to the middle east. how does that square with his promise to br

that's from the high at the end of bill clinton.at job as president and a phenomenal economy during his administration, we can get those heights. average hours, we can increase that as well. that's part-time/full-time ratio. product activity was 2.3%, which is good, but under clinton, it was 3.4%, i believe. so we have room to go there, too. i don't think this is a moment in history. i think this is a long period in history that we'll have really good economy as long as the policies don't change. >> president trump says he does plan to run in his reelection campaign on the economy, and the recent cnn poll show most americans approved of hi handling of the economy, but as we have seen, the president tends to talk more about immigration, the russian investigation still being under his skin and other divisive, less popular -- so is he missing out on the opportunity? >> i'm an economist, and that's all -- and when james carville said, it's the economy stupid, that's what does it all. when you look at this, it's really true. that's what

nancy pelosi versus donald trump is a house that you go back to bill clinton, you did bill clinton within he constantly wrote the message i am getting the people's business done. when a got impeached, the senate didn't come vikt but the whole time he was passing legislation, doing the people's business and demonstrably, flagrantly doing the people's business. donald trump is doing exactly the opposite thing, saying i can do the people's business while i'm being investigated and gives nancy pelosi another argument for impeachment, which is he's not discharging his article 22 responsibilities as president of the united states. so trump my plays at the at the tactical, the strategic level a and. s moose pla bill clinton flagrantly got things done. it was plague rant. >> he worked. >> sear four years in a row, pa past -- i always joshd about this, could you impeople bill clinton on thursday and he would take you golfing on friday. you know why? becau because. history will be unkind the most successful president sin l.b.j. ronald reagan is close but what bill clinton did in eight years, pretty

in 1999, impeachment boosted bill clinton's political ratings. but because he was not eligible to run for president again, we don't know what the overall effect would be. he did go up ten points after the impeachment and ratings for republicans went down 12. so is that any indication of what might help. >> harris: and spending a few minutes with newt gingrich. part of the misconception that you exit. you don't. what happened with bill clinton, he continued to get stuff done on his own agenda while he was impeach. very fascinating what that can do. it's risky. john roberts, thank very much. tom mcclinton sits on the house judiciary committee. right on time to get his response on this. you know, jerry nadler, your chairman, has been quite vocal. we'll get to that. i want your first thought on whether this helps or hurts democrats. >> a good question. i really -- i don't know. i think ultimately it will hurt them and i think part of their reluctance to move forward is knowing the other shoe is about to fall. the inspector general has been looking in

one was that with bill clinton, you can't separate the good from the bad.hey are all part of the same human being. and the same sort of motivations that drive him in a better sense drive him into difficulty as well. complicated in that sense, and maybe an exaggeration of all of us. sometimes often for the worst. sometimes for the better. the other thread is that, loss and recovery. when he's down, he would find his way up. when he was up he would find his way down. cycle again and again. i think when i talked to you in probably 1995, he was before monica lewinsky. you see that time and again all the way through his presidency and post presidency. i think in the current era of 2018-2019 of the me, too, movement, there is somewhat of a reassessment of his behavior towards women, and i 2018-2019 -- and think that's totally justified and the achilles heel of bill clinton. brian: did you a book on barack obama. when did the text on that end, at what point in his life? david: that was even -- clinton -- my book on clinton, i'm fascinated by the formations, what s

>> if you look at bill clinton, that very nice gentleman who has been on my side, as you know.is special prosecutor, it was guilty, guilty, guilty. so many guiltis with me, there was no guilty. >> president trump will remove to get away from the mueller reports, with a big announcement on the border today as he was departing for colorado, one of the things that the president has been mulling over his tariffs against mexico if they do not do something to curb the flow of migrants heading north from the border. and customs and border protection just a little while ago announced that on wednesday morning a group of 1,036 people crossed illegally from mexico into the united states and the el paso soaked sector, that is the biggest single group to ever enter the united states unmasked. >> bret: big debate on that issue, but we are also learning about hundreds of minors being held at the u.s. border facility is beyond time limits, what about that? >> talking to somebody from customs border protection, it is a system that is absolutely overwhelmed. minor children are supposed to be ov

bill clinton impeachment backfired.ndrew johnson, bill clinton, neither one convicted in the senate. coming out of the bill clinton situation in the late 90s, everybody realized that it could as you just said liz increase the president's popularity. elizabeth: the thing is it's impeachment light. it's impeachment without the impeachment. >> i agree. elizabeth: basically they want to make like they are going to impeach him but not do it because they know they will put at risk their house control. here's the thing, they want to slam the president's approval rating with all these investigations. >> you made a key point because i was talking about this earlier today. they want, you know, get into semantics, they want to open an impeachment probe which doesn't mean it will result in actual articles of impeachment coming out of the house. if they do this probe, they are weighing behind closed doors will that help us with 2020? just to open a probe. i don't think they are ever going to return articles of impeachment. elizabeth

one was that with bill clinton, you can't separate the good from the bad.hey're all part of the same human being. and the same sort of motivations that drive him in a better sense, drive him into difficulty as well. complimented -- complicated in that sense and maybe an exaggeration of all of us. sometimes obvious for the worse, sometimes for the better. is loss her thread and recovery, when he's down, he'd find his way up and when he was up would find himself down. a cycle again and again. i think when i talked to you probably in 1995 was before monica lunse and before -- monica lewin ski and before the impeachment and i think i talk about the cycle and recovery and you see it time and time again through his presidency and post presidency. i think in the current era of 2018, 2019 of the me, too, movement, there's sbha of -- somewhat of his behavior towards women and is totally achilles nd was the heel of bill clinton. brian: you did a book on barack obama, when did the text end, at what point in his life? david: my book on clinton, i'm fascinated by people

bill clinton got reelected from that impeachment.e that on my side of the eye of this president. heather: republicans win if democrats go down this road? >> i certainly puts republicans in a better position, 53% of americans not only are against impeachment but larger proportion against impeachment, 52% of americans want democrats to move on from investigating 2016. that is not just republicans but a lot of independents and even some democrats. i don't think this is the best route for the democratic party to go down and he does improve republican chances. the more they are interested in 2016, the mueller report, subpoenaing everybody around the president, looking at his personal business stuff is not what the american people want to see. they want to move on to really shoes. heather: they want to see some work getting done. thank you for joining us, great to have you with us. have a good day. the time is 20 minutes until the top of the hour. could medical marijuana be the path to curbing the opioid epidemic. researchers think so. doc

. >> reporter: that's despite's graham's comments during bill clinton's impeachment saga. >> the day richard nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took from the power from congress over the impeachment process away from congress and he became the judge skbr and jury. >> reporter: the president raised eyebrows when he praised victor orban, as he welcomed the prime minister to the oval office. >> people have a lot of respect for this prime minister. you look at some of the problems they have in europe that are tremendous, because they've done it a different way than the prime minister. >> reporter: it was another example of mr. trump embracing a foreign leader who has bashed immigrants and eroded democratic freedoms. >> respected all over europe, probably like me a little bit controversial, but that's okay. that's okay. you've done a good job. and you've kept your country safe. >> reporter: the president used the occasion to issue another warning to iran. >> i'm hearing little stories about iran. if they do anything, they will suffer g

but the president also used a parallel with bill clinton saying that bill clinton, when he went through his proceedings and president trump just went through his own proceedings with the mueller report, they ended in two very different ways. watch the president. the. >> there were no charges, none. if you look at, if you look at bill clinton, that very nice gentleman who has been so much on my side, as you know, his special prosecutor, it was guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. so many guilties. when me there was no guilty. reporter: for the first time today president trump acknowledged that russia tried to make the president the benefactor of its influence campaign in the 2016 election because at one point this morning he tweeted the following, the president writing, quote, and now russia has disappeared because i had nothing to do with russia helping me to get elected. the middle portion of that tweet right there. first time we really heard the president say that. when reporters asked him about that tweet, about 20, 30 minutes later, he backtracked. >> no, russia did not help me g

. >> neil: that's why they didn't want to go -- see bill clinton go in the 90s.der his watch. >> i thought it was completely inappropriate to impeach bill clinton. may have been a flawed man. if they knocked him out of office, he still would have been a flawed man although not president. >> neil: so you don't want to see anything that disrupts this ride we've been on? >> zero. it's important that we have a president of the united states that is focused on growing the economy, focused on providing jobs, employment and leave him alone. he's doing a lot of wonderful things. the tax bill. now it's paying for itself as they know. the numbers are in. they yelled about it. >> neil: the economy is on fire. >> it's doing well. the deregulation. he's got that one, which is a surprise billing. he's gotten that one through, which is wonderful. he's looking at other stuff on that area. medical -- having -- >> neil: so the possibilities here, working with the other side is problematic. but i also asked you during the break about hearings that can go in their own direction. of

he's going to be bill clinton and everyone is going to love him. donald trump is terrified of impeachment. donald trump is terrified of humiliation of being exposed that's why he's so freaked out about his business records. if he was goading them to impeach him, he wouldn't mind the mueller report coming out because he wouldn't be afraid. he's terrified. the democrats are more afraid of trump and more afraid of this magical base that's going to fall in love with him when he's impeached than they are of their own base turning on them if they will do nothing. >> gene, the democrats have already passed about 100 bills in is this house of representatives large and small. which takes us back -- while investigating this president, to go back to 1974 to the investigation of president nixon as i know you recall, i just asked today, give me a rough outline after legislation that year that congress was able to do. things like while they're basically removing the president. >> right. >> the federal aid to highway act, rehabilitation act of 1973, the endangere

bill clinton's personal approval went up after that but democrats lost the presidency.bush campaigning on? restoring honor and integrity to the white house. >> can't democrats show the american people that they're working on infrastructure, health care, drug prices, while at the same time pushing these investigations? if they can walk and chew gum at the same time while the president has his arms folded, isn't that a better picture for them? >> of course. that's what clinton did in the 90s with republicans and that's what house democrats are trying to do right now. they don't have a senate to work with them. the president is trying to deny them in that. if they're able to call attention to the legislation on the floor, they'll be able to do the walking and chewing him and maybe even juggling at the same time. >> busy down there. >> throw something extra in there. >> i appreciate that. everybody loves that. eli, jonathan, thank you so much. >>> coming up, hitting close to home. retailers predict higher prices in stores. you know why. the trade war. but do they think it's

this is the difference with bill clinton, you and i were around when bill clinton was under impeachmentbout his enemies if he could help it. he we wanted to look like he was trying to focus on the people's business and that worked to his benefit. chris: i can't waste time in this, i have to go back. >> i care about your problems. he didn't get a lot done but numbers went up. trump on the other hand can't help talk about it, loves talking about it. engages in the fight. maybe current moment with twitter and social media and cable news, that's the only way to do business, certainly the only way he knows how to do business but big difference in 20 years. >> biggest risk i would say for trump in this particular situation is that he comes across as seeming like he's more concerned with political will than the country. chris: the president orders more forces to the middle east, how does that square with the promise to bring troops home. our panel weighs in next. many people living with diabetes monitor their blood glucose every day. which means they have to stop. and stick their fingers. repe