beth, what do you make of today? here s my big takeaway among there are so many takeaways from this entire day. senator flake said to you he is leaving he is a republican who believe this is the free markets n small government, free trade, and immigration. all of those things summarily rejected by republican voters. senator flake and these establishment republicans think they are presiding over a party of ideas that are not shared by their voters, 100% not shared. free trade makes people think about lost jobs. smaller government, losing health care, entitlements. free market, that s what killed the jobs in 2009 and plunged us into recession. that is not where the republican voters are. yes you have made this a discussion about character which it certainly is on behalf of the president. but it s also a discussion of where the republican party, it is a not where senator flake or corker is. on the show on sunday, our data download was about how boy,
where trump overperformed it delivered him more votes than in the so-called establishment republican counties. that is beth s point here, are the people speaking? i think it s something the republican party hasn t reckoned with. and it s something that we at this table never seem to touch on, which is he got elected. okay. if want to do something about the republican party you have got to figure out why he got elected and you have got to answer that mail. while i empathize with matter in flake and senator corker and i admire their eloquence and courage in speaking out against someone in their party i don t know how this is a blow in the fight to take back the republican party. calling donald trump a creep does not wrest back the soul of the republican party. donald trump won today? is that the conclusion? if we are looking at a total and binary choice here. we have been saying there is a fight for soul of the republican
not just black america. now that he s done with his last election, he s looking towards his legacy as perry said. now he can step forward and say this is what i want to leave my mark on. it s quite remarkable and could leave a huge impact. there are critics who say how could he apply federal money to one population. and the president wants to show he s supporting. beth, perry, thanks guys. the nfl has cracked down on players using racial slurs. the big three with new thoughts. we asked people a question, how much money do you think you ll need when you retire? $500,000. maybe half-million. say a million dollars. [ dan ] then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to like pull it a little further. you know, i was trying to stretch it a little bit more. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i m going to have to rethink this thing. [ man ] i looked around at everybody else and i was like, are you kidding me?
chuck hagel this morning on the situation in ukraine. the white house has announced its first direct response to russia s military sbrerngs. the u.s. is suss spending preparation in the preparatory meeting for the g-8 summit set to take place this june in sochi, russia. lincoln bring in beth flewy. and the costs, can they accept action and if so, what might be that be? it was like when i was covering the 2008 and russia went to war with georgia. president busch at the time was talking about cost. senator mccain was talking about cost. senator mccain said we re all georgians. now a couple days ago, he said we re all ukrainians now. i don t think what more the president can do, president
president obama s legacy even more so than the affordable care act? no, the affordable care act would certainly be a bigger issue than this, particularly. but i do know, he wants to have this initiative continue after he s president. so if you can imagine an obama foundation, a lot of lines along what bill clinton s done. one thing they want to talk about is helping men of color achieve more. data shows that men of color tend to graduate from college less. and are unemployed even more. particularly, even female people of color. this san issue they re going to work on going forward. beth, how do you think my brother s keeper will help define the president s legacy? well, he is the first black president. and that presentation to me is a sign he wants to own being the first black president. it seemed like the first term he would deflect that term. he would say i m the president of all united states of america.