is responsibility there. there is accountability there. that s one of the things that comes with the leadership. keeping with that tone of your answer, aaron, i know you have written about the postal bombs and why it s fair to ask if the president is to blame. here s what you see in part to the post. some conservatives have asked why trump gets this treatment when others haven t. the media isn t blaming him for that. you bring up bernie sanders as one example. is there a parallel between the two? yeah, there s certainly a real sense of a grievance on the right whenever we have something like this, whether it was charlottesville last year, whether it was the republican baseball shooting, what s happened this week. they feel that there is a double standard in which we are asking whether trump is to blame when something like this happens to democrats verse wls republicans are to blame when something like
appearing at his rallies. it s unclear exactly what he said. it s really hard to hear out there with marine one, choppering in the background. we ll likely hear that soon. one interesting thing he brought up was the baseball shooting where the house majority whip, steve ascalise was shot. clearly something he s been talking about lately, about the division in the country, something he has not taken any responsibility for. but instead blamed reporters for. but clearly, he brought that up, essentially saying there is violence also against republicans, as well. i think we ve got the remarks now. i m going to interrupt you. we have that sound from the president. let s listen in. i just want to compliment law enforcement for having done an incredible job. the fbi, secret service. so many. they just got together and did a fantastic job. like finding a needle in a haystack. so i want to congratulate them.
the punishment for treason is actually capital punishment. that s one of the things can you do. this is incredibly uncivil rhetoric. it s been going on near daily for a year and a half. there is an atmosphere now and it s not attributable to any one person but do you have an atmosphere in which these bombs can happen in which the republican baseball shooting can happen in which five policemen are murdered in dallas during the campaign. these things are happening. and we re in one of these periods and you think back maybe to 1968 in which there are people who worry that the whole country is going to fly off the axle. and we are in one of these periods right now. and i don t think you can attribute, certainly donald trump is doing his part. but i don t think you can attribute the whole or even the greatest part to one single person. brian: one thing we can all agree on is that law enforcement deserves a lot of praise for getting this guy in the short time that they did. quickly? we
economy. and obama over the weekend claimed credit for the economic recovery, and of course president trump wants that glory, if you will. there are people in there, though, who feel like in the last day or so they ve maybe managed to get the message across to the president that this is a major event coming. as you said, he has had challenges before, not just with the hurricane, but other moments. he s not necessarily grasped for that moment of national unity that some of his predecessors have done when there has been a tragedy. he hit some of the right notes in the las vegas shooting, he hit some of the right notes when it came to the baseball shooting. the paper towel toss. and this will be a significant test for him with everyone watching. although in the short term at the white house, it does change the subject. frank, i know you ve been asked a lot about the op-ed piece, where we stand. it mounts to a national security
managed to get the message across to the president that this is a major event coming. as you said, he has had challenges before, not just with the hurricane, but other moments. he s not necessarily grasped for that moment of national unity that some of his predecessors have done when there has been a tragedy. he hit some of the right notes in the las vegas shooting, he hit some of the right notes when it came to the baseball shooting. the paper towel toss. and this will be a significant test for him with everyone watching. although in the short term at the white house, it does change the subject. frank, i know you ve been asked a lot about the op-ed piece, where we stand. it mounts to a national security crisis, to take mr. woodward s point. tonight mr. bannon went on fox news and had this comment for laura ingram. i ll get your comment when wii we ve seen it. it s quite evident that what