saying he s this guy, we re gonna match his anger, his willingness to go over lines i don t know that that is a winning stretch for a presidential race. it may well be enough in a midterm election. you just don t know if that s enough of an alternative when you re offered a one versus one choice. is it disarming, though, david chalian? is it unilateral disarmament for the democrats to take we ll talk about health care instead here? we all went to school. what are you supposed to do with a bully in the school yard? punch back, right? democrats are still searching for how to take on trump in the trump eras as chris is pointing out, trump the president s a pretty unique figure in american politics. i don t think just following his playbook for anybody else is going to work the same way, and yet there are demands in the democratic base to not as you re saying just talk about priptive
step back and say it s other peoples problems to solve, i don t think that reflects all that way in voters minds either. when you re talking about a clear problem being presented and nobody sort of coming together to actually complete the solution. all right. david chalian, chris eliza, great to have you here. appreciate it. we are following breaking news out of pennsylvania. you re looking at live pictures. these are protests in east pittsburgh. why are they there? last week a police officer gunned down 17-year-old antoine rose who was unarmed. he was in a car which was suspected to be involved in a shooting when police say they ordered the driver out of the car. antoine and another passenger ran off. he was shot. antoine was laid to rest yesterday. republican congressman adam
the catch and release approach used during the obama administration that president trump has repeatedly criticized. this will only last a short amount of time because we re going to run out of space. we re going to run out of resources. reporter: and today at the white house president trump is meeting with congressional republicans about the budget and also immigration, but he s also spending some time this morning dealing with another issue. the repercussions of his tariffs and his trade war with european countries and others. he responded to harley-davidson which said this week that they would be moving some of their production over to europe in response to the president s tariffs on steel and aluminum products. john and erica? abby, thanks so much. joining us now david chalian and chris eliza. david, am i being too cynical here? yes. no. thank you. good night. is it too cynical to see the
might disagree with someone politically is not new. politicians are very particular about this. who they appear in photos with or we pull up a photo from 20 years ago because they re photographed next to someone that is now political toxic. these players would have agency and decide who is house they want to go to a party at is a reasonable thing. there are a lot of people i might be nice to them in a green room he s talking about you. he s talking about you. i ve got a lot of photos with chris eliza. we had joe lockhart on earlier. he was the former clinton press secretary but the head of communications for the nfl and in terms of what the president has the way the president has tried to spin this is that america agrees with him because ratings for football games have been down. joe lockhart told us that he sees it as more of the fracturing of the viewing audience because we all watch
put a patch on their rear ends. do you think eagles fans will take this personally? no. i think eagles fans understand that our players are individuals who can stand up for themselves and stand up for what they believe in and that s what this country is about and donald trump with his with his ways is never going to change that. mayor jim kenny, thank you so much for being with us. we do appreciate it, congratulations on your super bowl win. go birds! go birds! he s rubbing it in now. you re a big man, john berman. joining us to talk about we have chris eliza and wes lowery. okay. so if this is a culture war, chris, that we re in the throes of or that the president is ginning up somehow, what are these sides? is this freedom of speech as seen in the super bowl champions versus the president s version