standing on the world stage and blaming america and taking the word of vladimir putin that it s now hard to actually see the shiny object, any other shiny object. that s a good way to put it, alisyn. i agree with you that the helsinki moment will be sort of a definitional moment of the trump presidency. i think there s little doubt about that. and yet, if you look at the public reaction to it, we don t have a ton of polling to look at, but that recent nbc/ wall street journal poll was conducted, at least half of the interviews was done after the helsinki summit. and the president s overall approval rating maintains sort of the same themes apply. he s in trouble with independents. his supporters feel even more strongly about them. and he operates in this very narrow band where his overall approval rating doesn t move all that much. another mea culpa moment? alisyn has been submitting that the approval numbers among republicans aren t indicative of something, perhaps truly
because as you say, here s a man diagnosed with brain cancer, has a pretty good idea of how much time he has left, and to go after him, the way they have continued the go after him, is one of the ugliest things that i think we have seen in washington history. and it s definitional. i mean, if you are mocking people for their physical deformities as certain members of this movement have, and i will say this about steve bannon. i have not i have not personally seen or heard anything about steve bannon mocking people for their defo deformities or experiences but i think what mr. fallows said is absolutely right. he is rejecting this notion that we have seen endorsed by the white house of this equivalence between the blood and soil nationalists who are chanting anti-semitic and racist comments and the mainstream of his party.
what the people in charlottesville with those torches talking about blood and soil as they were marching along there, people who donald trump said were nice people. certainly a. phrase of 1930s germany as you know. i thought it was significant what john mccain spoke for and against. he was speaking for the international architecture of alliances, of guarantees of trying to increase security and increase prosperity, the very things that trump has sort of dismissed as being for suckers and he was against this nationalism of blood and soil. so i thought very much i agree with glenn thrush. it was moving in the sort of human nature of it and intellectual content. steve bannon has a hatred of john mccain and the president s antagonism of john mccain because as you say, here s a man diagnosed with brain cancer, has a pretty good idea of how much time he has left, and to go after him, the way they have continued the go after him, is one of the ugliest things that i think we have seen in w
is not sincere. reporter: that s right, erin. you re talking about 1.6 israeli citizens of arab descent who did come out in droves to the election to elect arab parties that are now the third largest block and one of those parties, the arab union party said in a statement to cnn, you know, it s a little too late. his racism did not begin and end at this inciting statement. legislation and racist exclusionary discriminatory policies are working plans of the knessel. they feel that this is just indicative of how prime minister netanyahu sees that community. of course it s hard when he says he wants to have a jewish state to not have those feelings exist. in a sense, it s definitional. those aren t the only campaign comments that is forcing
say something in spanish before i depart. we, so many of us, steeped in the teachings of dr. king, or of many great leaders, perhaps no one more definitional in the work of social change and justice than dr. king, he said something so fundamental to remind us how to handle this moment. he said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. this is a problem for all new yorkers and all americans. it has to be treated as such. any one who says to you this is a problem only felt by people of color or only pertinent to young people, what s going on here, it s all our problem. and anyone who believes in the values of this country should feel called to action right now. anyone who cares about justice.