i'm bringing back former senator bob toricelli and nan hayworth.e met with the aide, told her they were soul mates over ice cream, then wrote a letter, in it he wrote, you are kind and sensitive and caring and infectious with your laugh. you are and have been a complete partner to me and you have brought me much happiness. he signed the letter, with all my heart, patrick. he may be putting this letter out to try to say there's nothing dirty here, there's nothing sexual. but there doesn't have to be hard core sex to make it completely inappropriate for your colleague, for your subordinate to go back to work with you the next day, after you said, you're my soul mate. >> you know, what, i was a freshman with pat meehan and he was the model of probity, i have nothing but the highest respect for him as a legislator. >> i like michael weinstein's manife movies but now that i know about him, i think he's disgusting. >> nobody reading that letter would say he's a disgusting pig. that said, the definition of harassment is -- in some ways it's making someone

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ben white, former congresswoman republican nan hayworth of new york. the timing here, looking at the president's tweets this morning. at 6:15, 6:25, he contradicts, basically cuts off at the knees, his own chief of staff. two hours later, at 8:37, he contradicts what the house had to say about chip. ben white, what's going on here? >> as you see so often in these cases, president trump is making it more difficult for both his own white house and congress to come to some kind of agreement to fund the government, avoid a shutdown, all over the map on chip, on the wall, on all these subjects. he's supposed to be the great negotiator. he's making it all much harder, likelihood of a government shutdown higher. if kelly could keep him off twitter, we might be able to keep the government open. >> we know that's not going to happen. so nan, here's what i think the president is banking on and maybe some republicans, it's that the democrats are going to be able to -- they're going to be able to blame the democrats. >> well, i think the president, i read his twee

joining me right now from the independent women's forum, former congresswoman nan hayworth, you actually to stop these earmarks. >> i did. yes. trish: and good for you. >> thank you, trish. trish: yet we're right back potentially where we started. what is it about being a politician makes them so prone to want to have these little pet projects? i assume the money getting handed out for campaigns? >> it is a way of buying, if you will, favors among your electorate, trish. anomaly, he have district likes to have money spent on it, even conservative red districts supporting fiscally conservative policy. you would be amazed people feel like they that the representative is bringing home the bacon. we voted at the beginning of 112th congress then speaker-elect boehner to say no to earmarks. some people warned us, you're losing a tool that can pass legislation and then the administration gets to confer all the goodies. so that was participate of it too. there shouldn't be such goodies to begin with. trish: you know what? guess where the goodies come from? you and me, all the people out there, t

we have connell mcshane and former congresswoman nan hayworth. will they get a deal? >> they have ever reason to get a deal. they don't want it pinned on them. neil: it would be pinned on them. >> it would be, neil. they are not sufficiently confident of their political prospect this is year to say to hell with it. we'll have a government shutdown. they will cobble out a deal. neil: when democrats say as you reported, connell, someone blink but democrats will use that as a wedge. >> the story with the president and comment last week was such as important story. there are other reasons it is an important story. that might play itself out. neil: did the president say something i missed? >> i think when you were out sick. neil: by the way, gaspo talks like that all the time. >> not about those countries. not to defend you, gasparino. neil: about his colleagues. >> i was going to say. >> significant story about leverage. democrats think they have it largely because of that. they may be right. they may be right. neil: we could face another short-term continuing resolution,

we have nan hayworth. we have democratic strategist, moo i can call star hopkins. charlie, go to you. not real crazy response this market, this economy has had to the supposedly not stable, crazy president. we should have more such encounters. >> his approach to the economy has been very good and very stable if you think about it. neil: right. >> back up a minute. if the corporate tax rate is at 35%, and the rest of the world is at 20%, what is unstable about the idea of bringing down closer to the rest of the world so you become competitive? businesses are screaming that they can't hire because of too much regulation that was imposed during the obama years. what is so crazy about loosening that regulation so they might hire again? contrast that to the very stable, tightly-wound president obama and, think about this we came out after financial crisis which i covered almost like the world series, even though it was like one of those, when you went to bad at night you were seeing bread lines. it was bad. what did president obama want to do coming out of that? he want

pavlich and robbie suave and former new york congresswoman, member of the board of directors, nan ha hayworthwelcome everyone. katie, doug joins is in a precurious spot. >> he is. kennedy: the people of alabama are, a vast majority of them are republicans. they don't want him to act like a democrat or in the democratic party's best interest. but it doesn't do him a lot of good to thumb his noise at his party so what does he do. >> think of the people who wrote in another can date. 23,000. those are votes that would probably go to a republican if it were someone besides roy moore who was running. in a reelection campaign doug jones is going to have to think about what he does over the next couple of months. can he come to the table and work with the president on a number of issues. one thing that the alabama voters don't like about him is he is an extremist on abortion. that's not on the docket this year. welfare reform is on the docket and -- kennedy: can he vote like a blue dog? >> i think he can. he has the leeway and the freedom to vote that way. and if he doesn't vote that way, it's bad f