you re going to take away this coverage with nothing to replace it. do you believe in science? because i do. so president trump nominated [ audience booing ] by far donald trump was the better choice. by far. [ audience booing ] jason chaffetz can handle it, i can tell you that. but joining me now to discuss this, the former political director for george w. bush and chairman of the american conservative union. and cnn s political commentator and former executive director of the congressional black caucus. matt, did we all just get back into a time machine and head back to 2009? yeah, right. the difference this time is that, you know, those two town halls that you picked, tennessee and utah, with very republican districts, very republican constituencies, when jason
to shield the fact he had to pay a lot of money in the trump u. case, or is he the kind of guy who thinks there s a real culture war and benefits from it. i think he s as canny as a fox. he wants this fight because he knows the new york elite at that theater are not america and he can take them on. your thoughts? as a public figure, he s always been more comfortable coming through things as political theater, as an actor, in a sense. embracing confrontation and the fight. he s of the culture more than he is of any political ideology and this is his natural mode. what do you make of the fact the audience booing mike pence. no one asked them to do it. they did it, free speech, they had the right to do it. no doubt about that. the cast members knew what they were doing and they were professional. lin manuel wrote the scrip for that admonition. his only opportunity to play this card was how to react. tell me how it fits into his
in a sense. embracing confrontation and the fight. he s of the culture more than he is of any political ideology and this is his natural mode. what do you make of the fact the audience booing mike pence. no one asked them to do it. they did it, free speech, they had the right to do it. no doubt about that. the cast members knew what they were doing and they were professional. lin manuel wrote the scrip for thatted admonition. his only opportunity to play this card was how to react. tell me how it fits into his mode of reaction? was it a cover-up of his trump u. giveaway, where he had to pay the money. he lost. he lost that case. he had to pay. or is it something else? trump s sitting there in trump tower tonight, and he s got steve bannon at his side, son-in-law jared kushner, but it s the bannon relationship that s key. you look at breitbart and how they engage with political theater and how they go after their opponents. this is something that trump is
to the polls because if it s raining there s going to the polls is a hassle, and you may not go to the polls. i want you to listen, andy. let s watch and listen to what happened at a trump rally wednesday night in north carolina. we have a protestor. by the way, were you paid $1,500 to be a thug? where s the protestor? where is he? was he paid? we found out that clinton was paying people $1,500 plus an iphone to go out and be violent at our rallies. [ audience booing ] okay? it s a disgrace. it s a disgrace. but i ll tell you what, they found our people are very tough. they found that out. so andy dean, the man who trump labeled a thug and protestor, told my producer that he has been a trump supporter
a hard time when he asked her about her sins and she said she couldn t remember 39 times. meh. hillary is so corrupt she got kicked off the watergate commission [ audience booing ] how corrupt do you have to be to get kicked off the watergate commission? okay. so i take that back, the issue seemed less funny. the second part, let s just be honest, douglas, was that funny? no, it was just not that fell flat there. it just wasn t a well-written speech and donald trump isn t that particularly good at delivering those kind of speeches. he should some good zingers, some fair play tonight and there was the handshake this evening. yeah. but the lack of civility and the kind of sharky feel one had,