they have to because of the governor. take it seriously. when the mandatory evacuations come out, people need to listen and do what is recommended for their own safety. that s what i wanted to ask you about quickly. you talked about your experience with the storms. people essentially are saying, hey, we ve been through this before. we re fine. we re all set. can that experience work against you when you are telling people, all right, this is for real, you need to get out? yeah. i m worried about that. we had a near miss with matthew. came within very, very close. that would have been a devastating hurricane. when it passed, we lucked out and it didn t hit us, people assumed, well, this is not something to worry about. i would say, that is totally wrong. you ve got to listen. just assume the worst. be prepared. it s the old boy scout thing. i also want to say, our city recently sold our government
which he doesn t like when people suggest you shouldn t say merry christmas. and also, as i recall, the hottest people in new york. i mean, most of these folks, obviously, can t vote but they are of his political persuasion and i m guessing there s going to be no criticism the way there was during the boy scout thing. that encapsulates it in a nutshell. the jamboree it s called back a couple years ago was intended to be or always seen as a nonpolitical, nonpartisan event. something presidents would go to. the president then was going to and it was expected it would remain nonpartisan and nonpolitical. that s very much not what this is. turning point, the convention here and the gathering is explicitly and meant to be a gathering of people who are politically engaged. who are sort of sievically minded if you will on the serve conservative side. you saw that on the president s side when he talked about how he felt like conservatives in high
he didn t defend the president. whether they can work through it is the question. the vice president has never had to persuade me to remain secretary of state because i have never considered leading the post. martha: what do you think about that? i m sure he s telling the truth but i m sure he s woken up many days the charlottesville thing, the boy scout thing, tillerson used to be head of the boy scouts and trump makes a scene they jamboree. even people i talk to say i don t know if i can take this. now things are on an even keel with the chief of staff but now he has to eat the words he said when the administration was in crisis.
way or another way. quite frankly a lot of those folks hang on for a second. can you put truthful in quotation marks? either it s true or it s not. truthful is not, quote, truthful. it s either truthful or it s not, right? look, here s the thing. take the boy scout thing, for example. this is the president, i believe it was in the oval office where he s talking to wall street journal, i m not quite sure where it was. this is a guy that likes to sit back and talk a little bit left and right and if it s not the phone call, there was the conversation. it not like he made it up out of thin air like there was no conversation. the point is this is how he rolls, this is what he does. he talks a little bit here, talks a little bit there. it kind of like the regular guy, he just kind of talks this way. so is our expectation so low that he can just sort of riff and whether or not it s
bad. yeah. we ll come back to the boy scout thing. jason, when donald trump was saying, first of all he used the term paddy wagon. that s offensive to people of irish dissent, but when he talked about being rough, throwing suspects into the back of the van, all i could think of was freddie gray. this is what was done to freddie gray. he was thrown roughly into a police van. his neck was so fractured that he died. what did you make of the president of the united states using that particular imagery with police standing all around him? a couple things occurred me. i m faculty at morgan state. i texted my students, did you see this? they were disturbed that you would have the president of the united states basically encouraging a rough ride, but this is what we see from this president. this is how he surrounds himself with. this is his general disrespect for the law and people of color. i hope we screen shot every