and so on, well, you can t define when i m going to exercise my first amendment. now, can something positive come from this? sure it can. because now we ve got the spotlight on racial injustice, police brutality and what have you. what has this president said or done since getting in office on a prior basis when you ask black america or african-americans what do you have to lose? we have a lot to lose because he hasn t focused on the underlying basis for the protests. he could do better in that regard and lead that effort, but we won t because his core base isn t with him on that. scott, chris, jason, thanks, guys. appreciate it. thank you. coming up for us, right now, voters in alabama are ighitting poll in the race putting the president s base i don t know in an awkward position but funny president. president trump s former chief strategist steve bannon campaigning against trump s pick to fill the senate seat of jeff sessions. one of the races you need a flow chart, but it s ex
picked a side on it. chris, you always say that trump on twitter is the real trump. the fact that he continues with this focus today on twitter it then tells you what? well, i mean look, jason is right, the president believes strongly in this. and look, we know the president likes a fight. build you take his version which he likes to be a counterpuncher or other versions he likes to be the puncher, he likes to be involved and thinks that this is a fight that plays i think to his political base. jason is not wrong, frankly. there are millions of people who agree with donald trump. there s no question. the issue i would say is, when you highlight something like this and you call names, say this is unpatriotic, say this is disrespectful, sort of blanket it and not go into the nuance of why the protests are happening,
certainty is you and i will see together. great to see you. thank you. no problem, kate. let s continue the discussion joining me right now a. scott, a former chairman of the d.c. democratic party. i m sure you probably played football in high school, chris aliz za, probably, i don t know, did you play football in high school? let s be honest with each other i okay. nothing else needs to be said. jason miller, i bet you busted some heads. political commentator and former political adviser for the trump campaign. when did you play football jason? first two years in high school. not particularly well. there we go. my head probably got busted more than the other guys but a lot of fun playing. i played when i was smaller by the way. peanuts. it s the highlights of your life. get to it, jason, the president is not giving up on this. talk about the politics. hines talked eloquently about the view from the league and what this is the struggle
kremlin. and so look, i think there will be a lot of concern about this. i think it s going to keep facebook sort of in the headlines for longer than it would like to be in the headlines. i think facebook is girding for a long winter in washington. right now conversations about regulation. right. public hearings and then, of course, public scrutiny. given the president has tweeted the russia hoax continues now with ads on facebook, chris, does that signal that the white house might not support regulations on facebook and other social media sites? i mean, i think it signals that donald trump had that thought at 6:44 a.m. on, you know, on a friday in september. could it, sure. but i don t know that we i think we should be careful to assume that there s a huge amount of strategy behind what donald trump tweets at any given moment. i think there s a broad strategy which is to sort of reaffirm his
to congress on account of what it cited as privacy concerns and once it felt it handed the ads to congress facebook was going to face a backlash in the court of public opinion. congress will use these ads to grandstand against the company. many of the ads will probably leak within a matter of days. and so look, facebook s heading into sort of uncomfortable territory here, but i think it came to the conclusion over the last two weeks, given the level of public scrutiny, it really didn t have a choice. if it wanted to be seen as being on the right side of history it needed to cooperate with congress. chris, i saw you shaking your head about the pressure facebook was probably feeling? yeah. and two things. one, dylan is right, the second these ads arrive in congress the next second some of them will be forwarded to reporters. so that reporters can see them. yeah, i mean i think facebook thought they could simply say well, we re just a conduit here.