特朗普与参议院共和党分歧加剧，中期选举临近

You know, I was just in London last week. Where are you? I met with Tony Blair, who's been the most successful Labour leader of the last 50 years. Mhm. And the fact is, when Labour tacks towards the centre, when it takes common sense, uh, approaches policies and doesn't try to govern with an ideological bent, Labour wins. And when Labour goes ideological they lose. And that's something that, uh, the people who are still in power now need to consider common sense solutions.

Results get things done. That wins ideological politics even in the UK. And we're going to see some of that here in America that loses. Well, it's easy to connect the dots to the US on this, right. We're going to see the Senate today, Frank vote and likely pass a bipartisan housing bill that every lawmaker who comes on this program is going to talk about, because it's the one thing they could collaborate on, uh, after this is the store closed.

Let's see what happens in Iran. But we don't even know whether we can trust the agreement or whether we trust what we're seeing. The problem is deeper than just the politicians. The problem is that the American people have lost faith, trust and confidence in their leadership, not just in the political leadership, but the leadership of lawyers, doctors, professionals, businesspeople. We are suffering through a crisis of confidence in the people in charge.

And until people step up and say, enough, I hear you, I get it. And let's start bringing in accountability. Responsibility. Until that happens, this is going to get deeper and deeper. Will you talk about the deal with Iran? And it's unclear whether or not we can trust it. Does the American electorate want to see an end to this conflict that the vast majority of them didn't want started in the first place? I just wonder, for all of the talking about how this may or may not be an ultimately Strategically satisfactory a deal for the United States here in Washington.

If everyday people are saying no, we're glad it's over. It doesn't matter what the end game ultimately was. So here's the problem. They wanted over that. You're correct. They didn't want it to start in the first place. But now they don't trust the details. They don't trust what's actually being written there. They do not want Iran to have nuclear weapons. They do not want Iran to be in control of the straits of the oil market.

But they're not willing to do those things that will remove control from Iran. So now, in this catch 22, I don't know how you fix something that's so horrifically broken that we we want services, but we don't want to pay the taxes. We want Social Security and Medicare, but we don't want to invest in the future. You can't have it both ways. And at some point, someone has to say, look, they made promises to you that they're going to break.

Sorry about that. But we have to get our act together. So does President Trump get credit for stopping the war, or is he blamed for starting it? Oh, there you go. That's perfect. He gets he does get blamed for starting it. They did not want this. Republicans did not want this. And he cannot keep pursuing it when the public says no. And the issue with Congress is that they keep saying this is our responsibility. We declare war.

It's our vote. And the public says, I don't trust you either. I don't want what's happening in the white House. I know what's happening on Capitol Hill. At some point, would you turn to the Supreme Court as lower approval ratings now than ever before? Uh, the media, this institution, lower levels of trust and respect than ever before, every institution. What the hell are we supposed to do when we look at television and we say, I don't trust me.

I don't trust anyone who's speaking now, and I don't know how to fix it. Well, if you don't, who does? I'm listening to the experts. And if you're an expert and I use that in quotation marks. Yeah, we don't trust them either, right? We don't trust the scientists. We don't trust the experts in business. Bobby Kennedy is able to lead the Health and Human Services department because he shares that same kind of skepticism to the people who got us here.

The problem is, who's going to get us out of here? Well, and when we consider that obviously this erosion in trust didn't happen overnight. Frank, this was, you know, through repeated majorities and minorities, what have you. So it probably can't be expected to change overnight either, no matter what happens, uh, in November. But with all of this in mind, if you had to call the outcome of the midterms in November right now, where will we be?

Is it a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate, Democratic House, a tie in the Senate which would go to the Republicans because of the vice president. But right now, Republicans are not participating. And this is what I say to every American right now, because this is important. It's not the pollsters who are going to get this wrong if Republicans aren't voting and Democrats are. That tells me that they're going to be a couple of Democrats to get elected in the Senate, who we did not see.

And it's not that the polling is wrong. It's that Republicans didn't turn out. Yeah. And that's why it's too close to call. What's going to happen? I think it's Wednesday. The president goes to this steering committee lunch in the room with Republican senators. Will it feel different? No, than it did last time, the time before that. There are some of them who are angry at him. Yeah. For the Texans for the endorsement that cost, uh, John Cornyn the Senate seat.

And the fact is, a Democrat can win in Texas if you have low Republican turnout. And the Hispanic vote, which had moved towards the GOP but is now dead center undecided. You could even see Texas flip. Well, and that was a decision that the president made. Ohio Republican incumbent. A previous Democratic senator is seeking to get a seat back. Alaska. Turnout is critical. Alaska and Maine turnout is critical in determining who wins.

North Carolina Trump bullied and just pushed Thom Tillis out until he said, enough. I don't want to do this anymore. Well, that's he's going from Republicans and Democrats. So I can show you race after race, where the president's involvement is more likely to lead to a Democrat than a Republican. But in the end, if he focuses on affordability, if he focuses on health care, if he gives people the confidence that they need to believe that next year will be better than this year, he'll be okay.

But I don't know if he's going to do that. I don't know if his language is going to be sufficiently targeted to say to people, have faith and trust in me. Have confidence that things are going to get better. Because I'll tell you, the words that he's using right now are not effective. Well, he of course, though isn't running for election again. It's Republicans, uh, in Congress who are up for the vote this time. So is it.

If it is it, why is at this point in the cycle for those Republicans who are on the ballot to break from the president, if he's not doing those things, or does it still serve to have close ties to him? That is a great question. And the answer is, if you break, you break the party. If you break to save yourself, you hurt everybody else. So in the end, the Republicans will rise and fall based on what the American people think of the president.

And make no mistake, Donald Trump is the most powerful political leader in my lifetime, even greater than Ronald Reagan. People are going to vote based on what they think of Donald Trump, not necessarily what they think about Congress and is beholden to him to communicate more effectively than he's doing right now, and if he chooses not to. If we keep hearing about, uh, inflation. I love inflation or affordability is a hoax.

If that's what we're going to hear from this white House, then Republicans are in trouble. We got to wrap in a minute, Frank. But we woke up to news of Alan Greenspan passing today. It's emblematic o

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