Tim talks with Bloomberg’s Chief Washington Correspondent, Kevin Cirilli.

As most Americans now adjust to their stay-at-home lives, quarantined from the jobs and social threads they’ve always taken for granted, there’s no lack of blame to go around for the handling of this seismic social shift.

Bizarrely, one Eastern European leader has become a more reliable target of western ire than any other, principally for his decision to act boldly and protect his people through these extraordinary days.

Of course you can buy a presidential nomination. Mike Bloomberg simply ran out of the most important, and most often forgotten, campaign resource: time.

“Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people.”

Two weeks after vanquishing Democrats’ majority in the House in 2010, the message from the Republican leader of the new majority was clear: Pork is off the menu.

Democrats want the White House in a very bad way. Yet candidates jockeying for the nomination are making an art out of talking to voters about issues that do not matter. And in presidential politics, the only issues that matter are the ones that get you to 270 electoral votes.

The security of the United States – and its posture on the world stage – demands an outspoken, forceful, and visible Representative to the United Nations.

This month’s presidential election in Russia is predetermined. Vladimir Putin will be nominated and receive an absolute majority of the vote. But this election victory – if that’s what it’s called when opponents and rivals of the incumbent are not admitted to the ballot – could very well be Putin’s last.

Democrats and Republicans in Congress know that supporting commonsense changes to gun laws will save American lives.

So why is nothing getting done?

It’s simple. They’re afraid of the NRA. 

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán knows a thing or two about staking out a position very popular with Hungarian working class voters and aggressively derided by the American and European elite.

While Orbán may not be a name familiar to many Americans, he and our president-elect share quite a bit in common.

In recent months Moldovan Prime Minister, Pavel Filip, has taken aggressive actions to advance Moldovan integration with the European Union.

From implementing myriad economic reforms, strengthening the judiciary, and rooting out corruption to solidifying international partnerships while promoting regional stability, it’s clear the Filip-led government is committed to a western-facing, free enterprise system of governance.

When we choose a candidate for public office, ultimately, we don’t want to feel stupid for doing so. Kathleen Kane’s resounding victory three years ago happened because people believed her when she said she would always do the right thing - and they believed in her. 

As hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa – some truly fleeing persecution, many others migrating for economic benefit – seek refuge in what is perceived as a stable and peaceful Europe’s warm embrace, many EU leaders are at odds with each other over how best to address the pressures and economic uncertainties of this massive movement of people.

Pennsylvania is one of only two states in the union that has complete control over all wholesale and retail sale of wine and liquor. This is due largely to temperance lobbying prior to the adoption of prohibition. For you history buffs, prohibition was repealed in 1933! Yet here we are in Pennsylvania, 80 years later, chilling our beer in a wooden icebox instead of the Sub-Zeroes nearly every other state has installed.