to political prominence on the birther line and tweets a few month ago he told members of the squad, all four minority congresswoman to come back from the countries they came from and three were born in the united states. even though he s always walked up to it, for a while he has been able to avoid this brand of racist or dreaded r word. now, because of some of his behavior and language has been so racist it will be a challenge to 2020. and what about what you ve written today about the president continuing to reveal his incredible vulnerability, obviously in his own view, response to charlottesville, something he feels so vulnerable about, he is today tweeting someone giving him that right wing cover, i didn t really mean good people on both sides when it s exactly what he meant when it was a protest and counter
for what we believe in is a good thing. all right. got both of your takes on what the international scene is. switch to domestic. bakari sellers, it seems that the president sees currency in looking back at the obama administration and attacking it. now, that is not new in politics. right? i mean, we see it all the time, but it is enhanced right now for president trump. what do you think of that play? well, i mean, i think it works for its base. you know, the president built his career, his political career, got started with the birther line. so he s been tied to barack obama for a very, very long period of time. his infatuation with the 44th president of the united states is to use a donald trump word, sad. you know, he s not a forward-looking visionary and there are a lot of are things, whether or not it s whether or not it s unemployment, the stock market, any economic criteria you look at, like the growth in every individual market or demographic under
yeah, you know, i think jeb bush will have to explain further, act of love, crossing the border. that s a hard reach for some people. but making fun of it, the way he did it also told another story. this is putting down hispanics. this was a putdown. and he s the guy pushing the birther line from day one. the message is pretty damn clear to black and brown people. this guy is not looking out for your interest politically. the gravitational center of the republican party shifted far to the right, you know, 10, 8, 6 years ago and it is stuck in that position. this is why all the talk about chris christie being a front-runner, jeb bush having a good chance, really is irrelevant, because these are the voters they re going to have to get. it s interesting that paul ryan is not in this run up here. i think he s one of the few that can appeal to the tea party base and have a foot in the establish.
think trump would want to be anybody s number two. that s part of why he does these things and floats these ideas because he knows it will get him ink. one of the interesting thing social security i wonder how much mrp is going to rely on donald trump going forward. they see donald trump as a cash cow, but i don t think he has any speaking for him. one of the romney s spokespeople today was asked about trump s latest birther line talking to andrea mitchell, let me show you the sound on that. he disagrees with that. so he ll stand up next to
herman cain is at the top of the list. how many polls show cain is their first pick for a dinner date. i can t believe this. he beat newt gingrich who came in second. while the results a goodwin indication of cain s likability, it may just be an indication that americans like pizza. what foolery. does anybody really want newt gingrich to dinner? really, really? 29% want dinner with herman cain. that s tonight s big numbers. up next, rick perry is plummeting in the polls, almost down to zero, and that explains why he s trotting out the old birther line, and now some of the grownups in the party are saying enough already. stop the madness, you re helping the president get re-elected. stop questioning the guy s papers. you re watching hardball, own on msnbc. i take my multi-vitamin