affair heats up as russia announces a new set of sanctions targeting trump critics. and stacey abrams joins me. we begin tonight with the old bait and switch, we re one week away from a potential default on the national debt, every economic expert agrees would be catastrophic for our economy resulting in millions of americans becoming unemployed. interest rates on your homes, cars and credit cards shooting through the roof and a major punishing recession, a meeting between president biden and house speaker mccarthy at the white house is still ongoing as the clock ticks down to find some agreement to avert economic disaster. treasury secretary yellen warned again of an economic default saying it s highly unlikely the u.s. will run out of cash if the debt ceiling isn t solved by this. lyndon johnson was a united states senator for 12 years, quote, if you can convince the lowest white man that he s better than the best colored man, he won t notice you re picking his pocket. th
trick, make them think about something else, in america, the lowest hanging fruit has always been race. here s how lee atwater explained it in 1981. you start in 195 he by saying [ bleep ] [ bleep ] bleep by 196 you can t say [ bleep ] that hurts you. it backfires. you get so abstract now you re talking about cutting taxes and all these things you re talking about are totally economic things. we want to cut taxes. we want to cut thing is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. talk about cutting taxes. here s presidential candidate
this would require democrats to seize on this rather than say busing. that s not fair. because the democrats talk a lot about health care it s not a busing thing. it s a medicare for all thing. it is a medicare for all thing. but i haven t heard them say in a cogent way, you re about to lose your health care if you have a pre-existing condition. just that message. right. you haven t heard them really defend the aca. you ve heard them talk about blowing it up and switching over to medicare for all. they re all over the place when it comes to health care. except for joe biden. he went extensively into the subject of i m going to stand up to any republican or any democrat who tries to do away with affordable care act. who said let s work on fixing the affordable care act. keep what s working and we ll work on what s not working right now. by the way, polling overwhelmingly favors that position of the public option versus medicare for all version. and don t forget what the
saying [ bleep ]. by 1968 you can t say [ bleep ]. that hurts you, backfires. so you say stuff like forced busing, states rights and all that stuff. if it is getting that abstract and that coded, that we re doing away with the racial problem one way or the other, you follow me, because obviously sitting around saying we want to cut taxes, we want to cut this, and we want is much more abstract than even the busing thing. and a hell of a lot more abstract than [ bleep ]. the repulsive logic became part of the party playbook. in 1976 ronald reagan told stories about the so-called welfare queen in an effort to scare white voters. and the very same lee atwater made the willie horton ad a key part of george h.w. bush s 1988 bid for the white house. and in 2012 the same ugliness took center stage in the gop