the role of what some might describe as a permanent protest class. is this going to dog this president? i think it s more intense than i ve seen it since the late 1960s, early 1970s with vietnam and watergate. will it last? the anti-vietnam war movement lasted for many years. people felt very strongly about it. people feel very strongly about donald trump, for and against. i do want to mention one thing that s critical, alex. we found in this survey of trump voters that 20% of his support, 20%, one in five of the trump voters, voted for barack obama either in 2008 or in 2012 or in both of those elections. those voters are still potentially available to democrats, both in the midterm elections of 2018 and the general election of 2020, when umcomes up again. fascinating statistic there. always a good conversation, too. thank you so much, larry, appreciate it. thanks, alex, appreciate it.
black americans. if he had won that struggle, segregation would have continued. now we brought that information from the south to the north when my wife and i and others became active in the anti-vietnam war movement. we expected hoover to do the same thing and hoover did the same thing. so bonnie, as you break into this office and you take all this paperwork back and are sifting through these documents for the first time, what immediately stood out to you? did you have an ah-ha moment where you found something and what was it? well, first of all, we separated the documents. we separated out the criminal investigations and only concentrated on the documents that were political. and it didn t take long before we found one that was quite startling where the fbi called for agents to enhance the paranoia among members of the
yep. yep. good for him what? good for obama for saying that. good for president obama to take time out of his campaigning with george clooney and ricky martin and sit down and do something respectful and respectable. i think it s fantastic. he stood up for the military for once instead of using it as a photo op. where s the anti-war movement now? you think about that group that plagued bush, he can t say that about the movement now because they aren t anywhere. it s like the green movement with the b.p. spill. the anti-vietnam war movement was millions and tens of millions of people. it was not your occupy wall street. it was huge. it did start with some people who were off campuses. and by the time it finally reached its fulfillment, it was people from the suburbs whose kids were getting killed in a disgraceful war that was built on a lie. i think you can disagee with the war. but i do think you can t
yep. yep. good for him what? good for obama for saying that. good for president obama to take time out of his campaigning with george clooney and ricky martin and sit down and do something respectful and respectable. i think it s fantastic. he stood up for the military for once instead of using it as a photo op. where s the anti-war movement now? you think about that group that plagued bush, he can t say that about the movement now because they aren t anywhere. it s like the green movement with the b.p. spill. the anti-vietnam war movement was millions and tens of millions of people. it was not your occupy wall street. it was huge. it did start with some people who were off campuses. and by the time it finally reached its fulfillment, it was people from the suburbs whose kids were getting killed in a disgraceful war that was built on a lie. i think you can disagee with the war. but i do think you can t
and open the door for newt. he could win two in a row. this is very strange, very strange. maybe the white house is cheering. thank you so much, guys. and alex, great going with that show of yours. have me on. thanks, chris. up next, could the occupy wall street movement be to 2012 what the anti-vietnam war movement was to 1968? this is not complicated. could the left, the far left, turn the mainstream america people, the voters in the middle, against the democratic president? and throw the election to a republican? you know, a nixon-like candidate, a newt gingrich? this is hardball, only on msnbc. how did i get here? dumb luck? or good decisions? ones i ve made. ones we ve all made. about marriage. children. money. about tomorrow. here s to good decisions. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders