tonight. martha, thank you very much for having me. martha: what is your reaction when you look at it? i know you have read that, and everybody at home just read it at, as well. what is your reaction? my reaction is that miss sarsour is hostile to me, not because she knows me, but because she is fake feminist. miss sarsour is not interested in universal human rights. she is a defender of sharia law. and the principle of sharia law is no principle that demeans, degrades, and dehumanizes women more than the principle of sharia law. linda sarsour is a defender of thought. she hates me, she hates me because of that. i want to say, i want to ask linda sarsour, and the women who put their trust in her, why did she not organize a march for us
did applaud the president when he made some of these comments, but my understanding is that this was kind of a self-selecting group that you would volunteer to come in on a saturday so it s perhaps conceivable that people who supported the president came in. but it s incorrect to say, one, it s incorrect to say there was a five-minute standing ovation. that is less important. what is more important is the fact there were some cheers does not eliminate the fact that the president has had a public i don t want to say feud because that kind of demeans it. but has publicly and repeatedly disparaged the intelligence community. jim sciutto, thank you so much. thank you. i want to bring in cnn s brian selter and katrina. first let s talk about the president s first monday in office. he is tackling some very big issues including withdrawing from the tpp, imposing a federal hiring freeze, banning federal money on international abortions, but the white house is also down playing other th
it s said you campaign in poetry and govern in prose. but we ve seen a campaign that s represented obscenities, so we can only hope that we re going to turn that into prose. what that means is, specific policies that bring the country together. here s what we ve seen. in this campaign, it s not been about merely about offensive rhetoric, but also offensive policy. so rhetoric that demeans and ostracizes muslims and suggests an entire religion being banned from the country. it s not just that he spoke about the african-american community as the african-americans, but he s put forward a policy under a philosophy of law and order that has been held to be unconstitutional, namely stop and frisk. so this represents not just a shift in rhetoric, or a shift in the optics, ie, meeting with the president, but a shift in
executing a strategy. what about specifically, david, the brands? you have the exclamation point behind the jeb slogan, there s hillary clintons, you have donald trump in the hat, make america great again, you have bernie sanders, feel the burn. which has been most effective? i think martha is right about trump and playing the ceo card, and i think that is his brand. i think that s what he s running on, and it can work. what he s got to be careful about is sullying the brand. that is two things, using language that demeans the office and demeans others, such as women, and he has to be very careful he s not seen as reckless. ceo gets a 3:00 call in the morning, wants to say bomb them, let the missiles go, and hillary can use that all day, how do you feel about donald trump answering a phone call at 3:00 in the morning, that s when real
patriot? and you still want to embrace him? so the reality is that the deflection needs to be called what it is. and, you know, the reality is the that texas is almost a blue state. and if they want to hold on to ted nugent, he may rush them to that color before it s too long. you know, the democratic candidate, dana, wendy davis, she had this to say about greg abbott s embrace of ted nugent. listen. let me read it. it says when i read what ted nugent has said about women, i was outraged. greg abbott feels differently, calls successful women vulgar and disgusting names and demeans and degrades not just the women of texas, but anyone who disagrees with his narrow minded, disrespectful point of view. of course she is talking about nugent there. the gop clearly has a problem