that s why you re hearing these calls that would have been seen as fantastical before trump for oprah win friday. what do you think of oprah win friday running for president, while i have you. clearly is this is a very talented inning tell gent woman, and if she chooses to run for president, i think she would be a very good candidate. would you run against oprah in a primary? we re not going to get there. i don t believe in never ending campaigns, i know you guys do. what the american people want us to do is start working for the middle class and working families and not worry about who s going to run for what in three years. that s what the president promised to do, they re his people. i appreciate you taking the opportunity to come on tonight. and be tested on what matters to the american people. thank you. thank you very much, chris. the big ugly word that came
that s all it took to throw d.c. into a tizzy. the president slammed a surveillance act just moments before congress voted to renew it. next, realizing his administration supports the act, he tweeted again saying, we need it, get smart. and then sarah sanders took to the white house podium and did what she does best. completely deny that anything strange was happening here. up is down, black is white, and you probably come from a shithole. chris salizza is here. what happened to the truth, my brother? what happened to the truth? he sounds good when you can t hair him. cannot hear you. cannot hear a thing you re saying. you could kind of pantomime it, i ll go to break, we ll try to
i think of two things now, chris. my father i m a first generation american. and my dad came from what i guess trump would call a shithole, it was a very rural and poor area. and a very poor family from poland, and he came to the united states alone at the age of 17. i cannot believe the courage that that took. and he was able to make a living and raise a family in the united states to become a very proud american. and second of all, what i think of, chris, today all over this country you have decent people who sit down with their kids at the dinner table and say, judge people based on their character. don t judge people based on the color of their skin or the country that they came from. whether or not they have an accent or not. judge them on whether or not they are good human beings, and we have a president today, the leader of our nation telling the whole world that that s not what
grew stronger and stronger into something that trump has benefited from. our job is to recognize that while the very rich are doing phenomenally well. the middle class of this country continues to struggle, millions of people today are working longer hours for low wages, et cetera, et cetera. our job is to pay attention to working families, not just the billionaires, and by the way, chris, that gets us to the budget debate that is going on right now. and i hope we can discuss that. we re going to discuss it. let s do it right now, here s the context for it. you may not like this, but this is the way i see it, let s discuss it. for all the ugly words that comes out of him, and the meeting he gets from the media, and with due criticism, he is cleaning the democrats and yours by extension. he s cleaning your clock on the policy matters. he got the mandate withdrawn, he got the tax cut, you had high ground coming out of that, because he did it along straight
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