There are no signs of the commander in chief, President Trump remaining inside and now very fortified white house tweeting. He did send out his attorney general bill barr who continues to fight the Lafayette Park arguing the aggressive efforts to remove Peaceful Protesters just before a president ial photoop was justified and argued the president had the absolute right to step in with the guards. The president can use troops to suppress rioting. The confederatecy . Our country and the federal government do not listen to governors. It took colin powell to put it plainly. The word i would have never used before or any of the four president s i worked for. He lies. He lies about things. He gets away with it because would not hold him accountable. Given all of this as well as the pandemic now claims more than 100,000 american lives. A new nbc poll shows 80 of us believes our country is out of control. Lets go first now to washington, d. C. Where protests have continued after thousands of d
alena beverly, former director of affairs in the obamas administration and msnbc political analyst. ladies, welcome to you both. susan, you first. a new report out from the washington post looks at hu the president is seeking to turn his failure into building the wall spoke his 2020 rallying call. it requires on relying on rhetorical slight of hand and speaking the wall into existence. two-part question. a, do voters take issue with his failures so far? b, are they going to see through his rhetoric? speaking of voters, if you re referring to his base, they will let him go on it. during rallies, when he would say build the wall and mexico will pay for it. even bigesupporters say i just like him saying it. i don t expect mexico to pay for it. he has to keep the rhetoric up.
said let s give it a shot. they tried it and the 2018 election showed they doesn t like it. that s where the big problem for this administration, they can talk on the immigration issue and they are hoping to win back trump triers because they abandoned them in 2018 but i think that s a pretty tough sell and that s where he gets hurt. alena when you look the acting defense secretary patrick shanahan who said last night he has not made a determination the wall is required to meet this national emergency. in fact, he said he has not even spoken with the president this weekend. what do you make of that? we ve seen coverage all week, all month, there is no emergency. there is no need for a wall, not that a wall would actually serve to stop illegal immigration at the border but that crime is not up at the border. this is not a necessary action. by trump s own admission, this is not something he needed to
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