so on, it was just two days ago that he said people are dying all over the country because of people like nancy pelosi. that s not unifying language. let me tell you she spent most of her time biting her lip. she has a good poker face. can i just say one thing about divisiveness here that really struck me, and it was on the immigration issue, which we ve spoken about. i wonder if it s a theme he is going to strike in 2020, if nothing really significant happens. but he described the divide on immigration in class terms, that it was a division between the working class and america s political class, and started talking about the political class lives behind walls, because they re rich. but the working class are losing jobs. they re getting lower wages, et cetera, et cetera. and to me, of course that s divisive. it s not the way the immigration
that he said people are dying all over the country because of people like nancy pelosi. that s not unifying language. let me tell you she spent most of her time biting her lip. she has a good poker face. can i just say one thing about divisive here that really struck me, and it was on the immigration issue, which we ve spoken about. i wonder if it s a theme he is going to strike in 2020, if nothing really significant happens. but he described the divide on immigration in class terms, that it was a division between the working class and america s political class, and started talking about the political class lives behind walls, because they re rich. but the working class are losing jobs. they re getting lower wages, et cetera, et cetera. and to me, of course that s divisive. it s not the way the immigration debate is being handled by democrats, but i can see this as
there you have it. handshakes were vice president mike pence and nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house. president trump in a speech that was just a tad longer than last year, about an hour and 21, 22 minutes. started with a look back at american history, as we enter the 75th anniversary of d-day and the 50th anniversary of my landing on the moon. then the speech circled back there, and some very moving moments of world war ii, soldiers at the end, which we ll talk about in a moment. the president also spoke of the next chapter of his great american adventure, as he called it, saying we must create a new standard of living for the 21st century. he called for stronger families, deeper faith, and greater prosperity. he also heralded some of of the economic successes as he sees them of his administration over the past year, saying, we are just getting started. he then segued and what he hopes can be a bipartisan action on the border. democrats slam to the wall, saying it s un-american
that s all he needs in the electoral college, i think it s calculated. fight the culture war, people won t worry about taxes or infrastructure or medicaid exactly because they ll be with you on the culture side. i think that s his calculation, you agree? in part, you want to dance with the those that brung you, you want to keep the base on your side, i don t think donald trump views the politics in racial terms, he s looking at class terms. so the players he fights with are all african-americans? it s an accident this congress woman is african-american? i think that s neither here for him, this is a middle class issue, it s a mid-le class country. he took the side of the white supremacis supremacists in charlottesville. he was talk about with the nfl respect for the flag. human behavior in life. he s not complaining about the flack, he s complaining about the players. he s complaining about their
predict bid family predicted by family income. is our education system actually exacerbating inequality? yes, it is. it is not so much because of what the schools are doing to these kids. it s because schools are a site in which these differences get magnified. the reason they do is because our society has become more segregated in class terms. now rich kids live alongside rich kids and poor kids live alongside poor kids. when kids come to school the rich kids are bringing in their backpack support from family both moral support and encouragements and so on. the poor kids are bringing from their neighborhoods gang violence and depression and family disruption and so on. not that the kids themselves are responsible for it but that s in their backpack. so it affects all the kids. if you re lucky, you go to school with rich kids. if you re not so lucky, you go