and maggie s right. what, this is going to stop when things stop getting leaked about the trump administration and their relationships. and so we don t know when that s going to stop or if it s going to stop. to the point that jonathan raised, congressman about he s concerned that democrats are going to kind of take their eye off other things that are happening, based on this. could it actually help the white house? i think could. and i combine what maggie and jonathan have said. if it s just a low-grade constant russia, russia, russia, that s not helping the people in middle america who need jobs, cheaper health care, better education and safer community. and sooner or later, the democrat party needs to address that and say, look, this is what trump s doing wrong, we have a better idea. fan another shoe doesn t fall that s what s going to happen. one of the things that doesn t get mentioned, we talk about this low grade russia, russia, russia. this reminds me of the soviet
brotherhood bear any responsibility? i don t want to blame the innocent victims, obviously, but this is a simple equation of the gop doing wrong? both sides have caught out actions that this is a society that s more polarized than i can remember since it became a modern state. the divisions are so deep, it s hard to see how egypt moves on and heals, and that it doesn t get worse before it gets better. secretary kerry made comments just a few minutes ago. do you think that he needs to be doing more than what was said there in his remarks? which didn t seem to carry a lot of carrot or sticks though something the obama administration has enormous questions to face in the next few days, in terms of what it does with the 1.5 billion in aid, particularly military aid that it provides to
taking out the kind of net wealth we saw in those numbers most of that take-down of american wealth is because of homes being underwater, the mortgage crisis, et cetera. you get this disconnect and when you get disconnects like that, one of the amazing intuitions our founders had, one of their big complaints was the distance of the king. there s this line in the declaration of independence which we don t think about anymore which says aside from the other things the king s doing wrong, he keeps dithering with decisions and then he makes them wrong. the idea that being making decisions need to be imbedded in the system that those decisions affect. that s the genius of democracy. the more unequal our social order gets, the less we are able to achieve that. you talk about, when talking about elites, i have to bring in the op-ed which would seem to be a rebuttal to many of the points you make in your book. it says then there is our fervent devotion to equality, to the notion that a
target because he s on fox news all the time saying what he would do, and what brk brk s doing wrong, and so, that s a bigger target. i ve got to say, though, mike, it s not a good sign, is it, if you re afraid to hold town hall meetings in your own district and face the voters? well, of course not. but we saw as sam pointed to the results, we did otherwise, it s no secret that voters in america are unhappy. but you would know. like members argue to us that that isn t the most efficient way to communicate with voters. in a way that can be a lazy way. what was your view of town halls? oh, i loved them. in fact, you know, i got elected as a young guy, nobody knew who i was. i would go home every weekend, i d hold four town hall meetings on saturday, and four on sunday. is that right? probably held, the first year i probably held about 100 town hall meetings. and the reason why is, not only to actually see the voters in
they desperately need the dough, you re wiping off and wiping out business ties with a very important partner that neighbors you, not a good move. you know what, neil, i ve made the point on the show repeatedly about represented democracy. i like it when our represented leaders make a statement on our behalf. they say we don t like the way our neighboring state is behaving and we re not going to do business with them. if you don t like what i m saying on your behalf, by the way, fire me, i like that. i really like that. neil: what are they doing wrong, adam. what are they doing wrong. what s arizona doing wrong? their tone is offensive to people of hispanic origin and that s something that we could have an honest depate about, but that s the way the people who are protesting against this feel about it. tone and action are two different things, they re accusing the people of arizona of actually doing something and targeting these people. and that s not happened. they re wrong, t