this week. brand new cnn reporting reveals donald trump wants his allies to try to drown out the damning evidence, but the top republican believes americans will tune in. we are not in a situation where former president trump has expressed any sense of remorse about what happened. we are, in fact, in a situation where he continues to use even more extreme language, frankly, than the language that caused the attack. and so people must pay attention. people must watch and must understand how easily our democratic system can unravel if we don t defend it. we begin the hour with an awful all too normal weekend in america. violence and gun deaths virtually from coast to coast. this is now routine, sadly. ten mass shootings. ten mass shootings since friday. you see them on the map here in philadelphia, multiple shooters turned south street, home to bars into a scramble for survival. three were killed. in tennessee two died and 14 wounded. in south carolina a gunman turned a gra
fake news. i call it tax cuts. it is tax reform also but ecall it tax cuts. it will be the biggest cuts ever in the history of this country, and joining me now is bruce bartlett. former deputy assistant secretary under president george herbert walker bush and author of a book stopping fake news in its tracks. bruce, great to talk to you. your new book i ve been reading through, it sort of, it tries to disseminate for people how to sort of protect yourself from fake news but you also talk about the fact there is two silos of information. conservative silo, media from one place and everyone else from another. how can people protect themselves if inside that conservative news bubble? i don t think they want to be protected, unfortunately. i mean, you ve got a huge number of people in this country who get virtually all their news from fox, or they listen only to talk radio where you really only
said many times and not all republicans are racist, but virtually allracists belong to the republican party today. i ll take the comment they used to be democrats. the democrats party used to be the party of the south and now the republicans are the party of the south and a lot of people refuse to admit that there s been any change. but i feel sorry for establishment republicans, people like ed gillespie, i used to work with in the 1980s, mitt romney or any number of others who have to be silent, are afraid to speak out in their own party for fear of being excommunicated. yes. indeed. this would be quite a time to speak out given what s going on. bruce bartlett, one of the great twitter follows. everyone should follow bruce on twitter. you re great with the media. great to talk to you. congratulations on the new book. coming up, with trump in