and overwhelmingly male when it comes to donald trump s support. his use the language yesterday, hoax, impeachment, abbey made this point. these are words that resonate with them because they are his favorite words to describe the persecution which he himself feels. the republicans are more motivated than they were. they have got a supreme court seat on the bench. and what democrats in all their righteous anger and motivation right now sometimes miss is culture war fights often benefit republicans. identity rights and protests often benefit republicans. i want to make sure i understand that. the anger is still on the democratic side but you are saying the sense of accomplishment motivated the people on the right. not just sense of accomplishment. listen to the language. calling the democrats the mob. they are using anger and fear as well. they are angry about the process. accomplishment plus anger and
homeland security despite what kirstjen nielsen said this was meant to be a deterrent. kirstjen nielsen was not prepared for that briefing when she said that when she took over for sarah huckabee sanders and proceeded to say everything this policy was not. it was not sending a message. they sent the message. you saw that mother saying don t come here, americans, this country doesn t have the heart, this is not the place to come. that s what trump wants. that s what they got. that s exactly right. this is exactly what we were talking about earlier, how trump plays in these culture war fights. he s casting the democrats as the lawless ones. he s the law and order, very nixonian leader who will crack down on these democrats who basically want to turn the country over the bands of illegal gangs. exactly right. i was curious, okay, democrats, some of them are now saying abolish i.c.e.. mr. trump jumped all over that
john mccain was one of the first people attacked by donald trump and even after his tumor was announced. donald trump is still attacking him. what is so interesting to me, having worked on the hill when president obama was in office and there was we had democratic house and democratic senate and of course the administration. there were a number of things that got done. so it s been fascinating to me to watch donald trump sabotage his own agenda by attacking people who may not agree with him all the time. one of the old adages that the congressional black caucus re relies upon is no permanent friends or enemies, just interests. that adage completely missed him. his permanent interest is himself. his ratings, i thought about this, i don t think he cares about his we re not at war, the stock market is fine. he feels he can be successful by fighting the nfl, culture war fights, by being involved in celebrity sort of reality tv kind of thing, and i don t know
former cheech strateief strateg. on top of that, you have the comments from the president about the national an them in the nfl in which he was continuing to talk about last night. so that raises questions about how much attention he is even giving to puerto rico right now. so i think when you look at the last seven days, you look at the kind of comments that we ve seen from the president, you know, these things really are sort of at odds with some of the rhetoric that he put out there as a candidate where he said that he would stand up for the every man, he would fight for average people and he s out there picking these culture war fights and he s out there raising he questions about whether his administration is providing anned adequate sporsr to a horrible disaster. and you bring up a good point because i don t know than, i want to ask you, president trump taking to twitter last night to reignite this feud with the nfl saying very important that nfl players stand tomorrow and
the things that have been a drag on her approval ratings over the course of this campaign, the e-mail scandal is a proxy for resuscitating all of those concerns about the allegations of corruption in those culture war fights even within law enforcement during the clinton administration. you heard there donald trump bringing back up the specter of an indictment, constitutional crisis. what s significant about that is that not only does the crowd like it and lock her up has been a rallying cry over the course of this campaign, even trump s campaign manager kellyanne conway said earlier today, that s inaccurate. there s no evidence or actual reporting of any indictment. but she said that it doesn t matter because the damage has been done. now, that s a deeply cynical, if honest, assessment of what why this gets brought up over and over again. but it s going to be one of those wedges that s very difficult to heal. okay. all staying with me and, of course, our coverage of election day,