muted criticism for the president, the republicans if they said anything critical at all, sort of took out a scalpel and carved out the language used. no blanket condemnation of the act, i worked on three presidential campaigns, you didn t even take a phone call from a representative of a foreign government. frankl frankly, when i worked on a campaign, you didn t take phone calls from an organization with aligned interests. but we heard from the president himself and we heard congress, they did a little more than you shrug but not much. does that to you explain how we are where we are, that the mueller report, for all the 140 contacts with the russian, ten acts of obstruction of justice and the collective reaction from congress is a shrug, no witnesses are there, they re sort of halting effort to get people up there and make this public case. does this make more sense when
they were probably acting like kids. they probably did better than i would do. but it doesn t matter in the oppressor versus oppressed gameboard. marie: each side has been using this from the beginning for political reasons. jesse: wait a second. wait a second. there s conservatives in the media that corrected the false record. no one is using it for political reasons. marie: everyone involved behaved poorly at times. everyone involved should have walked away and done something different. jesse: blanket condemnation when it s clear who started it and who lied? marie: we can watch an hour-long video and say this is what the students should have done differently. here s what nathan phillips should have done differently. the black israelites are just terrible. my point is why can t we do that not just say greg: i can answer it. the initial reaction was so intense that it took all the oxygen out.
to sources like buzzfeed and the onion, it s because regular journalists are not doing their job anymore. rob: the president tends to call everything negative about him fake news which is not true either. i just want to take a moment to agree with my friend here. i agree with everything he said, including putting buzzfeed and the onion in the same sentence. the thing is, we ve seen you studies a that show 90% of the media covering the president is negative. so yeah, i get the hyperbole when he condemns fake news media. there s 10% he s not talking about, of course not our friends at fox news. there s so much criticism of him, i think it s justified for his blanket condemnation. rob: i don t think you can blanket condemn the entire media as fake news. he s gets a lot of ammo from the fake stories. they keep giving him more. the question that has to be answered, if this story was
his base particularly that white americans are subject to discrimination. phillip published a piece just yesterday in the washington post kind of laying out the data with regards to this metastasizing assumption that white people are now baring the burden of discrimination more so than black and hispanic people. so in that moment what trump is saying to his base and his folks is i m not leaving you. i m still with you here. so there s not a blanket condemnation of the white supremacist gathering, 20 of them though it may be in front of white house, he s still playing the race game even in that moment there. jon meacham, do you agree with that? yes. and i think that it is good news yesterday in terms of the numbers. we shouldn t i agree with eddie that we shouldn t overread it, but at the same time if
when you have early voting people tuning out you end wup a result like what woe saw tonight. where do you stand on the issue you hear what john is saying the fact there hasn t been the blanket condemnation of what gianforte did. it s shocking to me as a formally elected official i can t even imagine you would get so frustrated by a question by a reporter that you would body slam them. this is unfortunately looking like a pattern going to washington. and i wouldn t want to be a congress member today knowing this guy was coming there and be part of a discussion. port of what you do as an elected official is you are engaging with public with the press, and they have the freedom to ask you that question. you can answer it or not answer it. but to do anything that is of a violent nature sends the wrong message about what you are. you re a public servant. well you mentioned the response that we re hearing from republican leaders and democrat leaders. let s listen to nancy pelosi from t