the whole issue of cyber attacks. >> and jennifer rubin, is the time and place to start to litigate this a confirmation hearing for mr. tillerson, or do you think there should be separate hearings specifically on russian involvement in the election? >> i think all of the bomb i think, unfortunately, listen, john mccain is an american hero, but i'm not hearing very much. i'm hearing nothing actually from senator mitch mcconnell who is the senate majority leader who is accused in the "post" reporting of refusing to go public on a bipartisan basis with evidence that the cia had that he was intervening directly on behalf of donald trump. i'm not hearing from tom cotton or marco rubio. where are these anti-russia hawks? so i think we have to take every opportunity whether it's an independent commission and, yes, at the confirmation hearings, and i think in that same interview john mccain indicated that if tillerson didn't satisfy his concerns about his ties with russia that he would not vote for him, and i think every republican, every democrat should take that position. but one thing the man

let me bring in my panel, adnan and karine jean-pierre and jennifer rubin. looking into the idea of the emollments clause and donald trump's conflicts and senate majority leader smiled and kept walking as he headed off the floor late wednesday night. do you foresee meaningful oversight coming out of the republican house or senate of donald trump? >> no. this has been a year of milktoast courage stick on the right and other places and large sections of the media and quite a bit of the left. people got very excited on the left about a infrastructure bill after a white nationalist demagogue took over the government of the united states so i think that this is going to be a very important moment to do a few things. one is to read our history books and remember that it is not simple police about investigating little emoluments and things like that and things that have been perfectly constitutional and upheld by our checks and balances, slavery for about 100 years, segregation for about 200 years, internment, gay marriage which is now considered a fundamental cons

ith and political reporter juan manls ben this tiz and democratic strategist, miss pierre and jennifer rubin. i have to start wu one of the biggest moments of the campaign was the in ffamous "access hollywood" tape. we don't have to play it because we bleeped it out but he bragged about sexual assault. in the 2016 election white women voters went for donald trump 52% to 42% for hillary clinton. after all the things we saw happen with dond trump, including that "access hollywood" tape, why do you think? how do you think the majority of white women went for donald trump? >> as a white woman, i'm puzzled, too. there was a difference, based on education, that cut across gender. college educated versus non-college educated. hillary clinton did much bet we are the college educated. i think that we in the elite media and i do include myself, tended to overlook this overriding sense of identity that overrode gender, that overrode race to a certain extent. remember, donald trump did better with hispanics than mitt romney did. this was this populist anger. some of it race-based, i do agree. some of it

. >> weaker pandemic like jennifer rubin. >> i guess we can't be as qualified as blogging for "the washingtont. >> you are tough and strong and assertive. i saw at lunch with your children a couple of them. laura is actually one the sweeter people in washington. i wanted to highlight something you were doing a charity that you are involved in. tell us about it. >> food for the poor. actually operates in 17 different countries. they are phenomenal. 9 5% of all the money. they get small contributions. bigger contributions as well. goes right to services that help the poor not just handing out food and water but self-sustainability. areas that haven't gotten the benefit of a free market and haven't gotten the benefit of a non-corrupt government actually helps these people help themselves. it's amazing. why i know 'it is because i went to one of their countries guatemala which is near and deer my heart my daughter maria 11 is from guatemala. i have got to see what you all do. we went and i was like i spent time both crying, smiling, laughing, and just absorbing the angels that walk among us. peop

in terms of the coalition what's been fascinating to me some of the voices, bill kristol and jennifer rubin, folks on the right who are very critical of trump who sort of formed a real core of the never-trump universe, they're now completely aligned with him on this specific issue. there's a sort of interesting kind of coalition management that's happening through his performance of opposition on this issue. >> right. no, i think that's a great point. because, you know, he's gotten, you know, right on the israel issue, but he still maintains a very vigorous critique of a whole set of other positions. he's critical of the iraq war. >> right. >> he's critical of nation building. he's hugging up to sisi. he seems to have dispensed with the democracy promotion something that the iraq war was sold upon. so for a lot of this faction that as long as you're correct on israel and backing netanyahu, then everything else we can just put aside. >> do you think -- i want to ask a question that i was asking noura which seems floating in the air and the subtext. can you imagine a trump administration sayi