between 2012 and 2016, but after 2016, it took a sharp dive, there was also a general fall in anti-hispanic prejudice, too appeared so professor west, to what do you attribute these fin? prejudice is on the downswing, not on the upswing. at least in the first few years of trump. based on this particular study, i would have to examine how they gather their evidence and so forth, but anti-jewish attacks, anti-mexican attacks, and not just antiblack attacks, but also the police departments, the militarizing police departments, withdrawal of the investigations, when police do in fact shoot fellow citizens, whatever they color they are laura: but that was happening under obama absolutely, that s true. i m just talking about continuity. laura: i do want to share
he would call people, and at bizarre hours of the evening, and then they would say, i haven t seen or heard from eddy in ten years, why is he picking up the telephone and calling me at 2:00 in the morning? you know. those are those are signs. this was just this was more than just somebody who needed counseling, this was really something very, very serious. he could be unbelievably charming. but the downswing was a lot of anger. there was just deep, deep darkness. manic depression, i think,
country on a tough on illegal immigration message. border crossings, though, are now on the down swing. still, you wouldn t know that listening to president trump s messaging on twitter this morning. he said, tremendous numbers of people are coming through mexico in the hopes of flooding our southern border. we have sent additional military. we will build a human wall if necessary. if we had a real wall, this would be a nonevent. joining me from el paso, texas, nbc news correspondent, cal perry, politico s senior writer ja jake sherman, and former acting director of i.c.e. during the obama administration, john sandwig. john, i want to start with you. that was a tough on immigration message from bill clinton at a time when those crossings were on the rise. they peaked in the early different situation now. what is the situation? what is the state of immigration in this country now? back then there was no infrastructure along our border. today we ve invested billions in our border
he was just not really sure how to deal with it all. and you re just seeing a lot more kind of up and down behaviors, erratic behaviors. eddy s growing a beard. that s me! geez, wake the child. your daddy is fuzzy. ha ha ha ha ha! you re seeing a lot more unnatural highs and lows. he would call people, and at bizarre hours of the evening, and then they would say, i haven t seen or heard from eddy in ten years, why is he picking up the telephone and calling me at 2:00 in the morning? you know. those are those are signs. this was just this was more than just somebody who needed counseling, this was really something very, very serious. he could be unbelievably charming. but the downswing was a lot of anger.
this was like really something very, very serious. he could be unbelievably charming. but the downswing was a lot of anger. there were just deep, deep darkness. manic depression, i think, was what they eventually said. it made sense in hindsight. i didn t walk down the aisle thinking, you know, i have a man who is suffering from manic depression. people say, how could you not know, but he was so unique and so wonderful and special you just that was eddy, you know?