were doing. the president s warning to putin seemed to have that effect. after all, jay johnson and the director of national intelligence put out and unprecedented statement in early october raising the concerns to the public, the day the access hollywood tape came out and drown out the whole story. strange things happen, but unbalanced. we thought we were playing it the safe way. no regrets? there are always regrets. hindsight is 20/20. the president talking about his tapes admission and what bothers him about robert mueller. that s next, plus, first madonna, then cathy griffin. now, captain jack spar row. what johnny depp said about the president and assassination. that s coming up.
violence or johnny depp or ted nugent. both of them and people considering i think that s a reasonable approach to this. the other thing is what it does is distracts. instead of another segment talking about an immoral health care bill or another segment about the disaster of overting on the murder of casteel, we are talking about an actor, talking about ridiculous comments. right, but it should be called out. of course. absolutely. right. it should be called out. guy is making the point, keith, you can jump on it. yes, you can say johnny depp stop, cathy griffin stop. does this help democrats at all? it doesn t help democrats or anyone. it s not good to have this rhetoric in the discourse. i think what guy is doing is envitment of you and me,
a point person. exactly. it s hard to push forward your agenda. absolutely. we re looking ahead to tuesday s special election in the georgia 4th district. how much might this be a predictor for the mid-terms or do you think it ends up be an outlier in john ossoff wins? both want to make this a referendum on the other and race with national implications, ossoff wants to make it a ref referendum on president trump and handel has been highlighting the cathy griffin and julius caesar play. special elections never mean as much as the national media wants them to mean. this is obviously has a lot of local implications. i don t know how much we can read into the result in the end. but there are actions here, molly in terms of how far the
airlines pull out. i m glad to see bank of america pull out. at the same time i grieve because this shouldn t have happened. somebody along the way should have realized this is not okay. ainsley: yeah, the bigger picture. what s your reaction to the way the mainstream media is covering this? you have cathy griffin holding up the head of a decapitated president with blood. you have julia caesar on stage with blood all over his shirt and blood spatters all over the stage. yeah. like i said, i just think we have misplaced any form of respect for our president. whether right or left side offed it doesn t matter, he is still the president of the united states. if this had happened for barack obama, if it happened for george w. bush, any president in history, it would have been absolutely an outrage. ainsley: would it have happened if president obama were in office? no, no. you can imagine that first time it was on we would be hearing about it this is weeks since it has been on in centra
should be respected. like him or hate him, he is still the president of the united states. i just saw it this is way too far. ainsley: as brutal as what cathy griffin did. i would say if not worse because it was a live rendition of it. so planned and calculated and we are seeing it over and over again in front of a live audience 2,000 people every night it s just too much. ainsley: some the corporate sponsors have pulled out after this all became people in the media were aware of this. i understand the play has been running for weeks now. it only has one more week to run. corporate sponsors that just pulled out delta and bank of america. however, american express and new york times has not pulled out yet and no telling whether or not they will. what was your reaction to that? it makes me sad for shakespeare in the park because the overall the public theater is a great thing. but, yet, at some point like justice needs to happen. like this is not okay. tax dollars are paying fo