all the time here in this administration deep embedded corruption. and just as people take the cue from trump on hate speech, frankly this is how trump operates, it s pay to play, it s corrupt. you saw that at the epa, you see it at the interior department now, we see it at hhs where officials are willing to serve trump are people who are out for themselves. yeah, do you think there is a connection that a rule gets sent or a sort of benchmark gets set down, tom price had to resign under scandal, scott pruitt had to resign under scandal. zinke s days are short. you think that comes from them saying we can get away with this because the president gets away with it. it s how they operate, how trump does things. we talked on this show about saudis, how jared kushner approaches his relationship with mohammad bin salman. this administration has a bunch of grifters, and not very competent. they re running very important departments of the american people, the interior department, how our
what made you flip? trump. what specifically? well, i was horrified by what he s like. and he doesn t seem to have respect for people. he seems to be very self-centered. so that and the fact that republicans wouldn t stand up. that was my hope, i really thought republicans would stand up for themselves, and for our country. so i wouldn t have to worry about trump and that has proven not to be true. here to discuss the backlash to trump s rhetoric, democratic strategist ayesha moody mills. every house official will anonymously tell a reporter if we re talking immigration, we re winning, we like this, we love this, this is our closing message. there are costs to that message, it strikes me. yeah, the thing we re not well, the thing that we should be talking about, the fact that even though he thinks he s motivating his base, a small
nates about the irs when we see all the time here in this administration deep embedded corruption. and just as people take the cue from trump on hate speech, frankly this is how trump operates, it s pay to play, it s corrupt. you saw that at the epa, you see it at the interior department now, we see it at hhs where officials are willing to serve trump are people who are out for themselves. yeah, do you think there is a connection that a rule gets sent or a sort of benchmark gets set down, tom price had to resign under scandal, scott pruitt had to resign under scandal. zinke s days are short. you think that comes from them saying we can get away with this because the president gets away with it. it s how they operate, how trump does things. we talked on this show about saudis, how jared kushner approaches his relationship with mohammad bin salman. this administration has a bunch of grifters, and not very competent. they re running very important departments of the american
which way the districts at play, the 60 districts, the swing districts at play, those are districts where it s not north dakota. it s not right, yeah. those are the districts where mothers in particular are saying i don t want to turn on the television because my 5-year-old is in the room and this guy is really disgusting, this is not the moral compass or the moral center i believe in, and it changes the dynamics. in 2020 you have people of color who are riled up right now who may not all sit in those districts by they re looking at what s happening in georgia and florida and the hateful ray racist robocalls, all donald trump endorsed, saying we re going to vote in our districts based on what we re seeing. thank you very much. up next, a white nationalist steve king running scared in iowa with no calvalry to save
former president barack obama, one of the few people making an explicit case about the staggering amounts of corruption surrounding the trump administration. the white house is worried interior secretary ryan zinke broke federal rules. the interior department watchdogs several probes for a criminal investigation. zinke is hardly alone in this administration, might be why the daily beast reports trump aides are scared of investigations if the house flips. to discuss the various strands of corruption throughout his administration, msnbc political contributor ben rhodes. it was interesting to watch president obama make that point because if you go to the house races and the senate races the president s corruption has largely been absent. but it s clearly somewhat personal to president obama. yeah. chris, look, we had, you know, fake scandals, years of full my nates about the irs when we see