country. no, this is america s infrastructure that he s den gating. when he says it s their economy that is in shambles, that is america s economy that is really not doing right by the americans in puerto rico. elie, can you speak to what jeremy just put his finger on, this idea of others, people who are other than him, other than his base, other than his supporters, other than his sycophants? they re not worthy of support from the federal government, from the agencies that help people in crisis? well, the nationalism that defined donald trump s campaign and his presidency was ethno genetic. it was white identity politics. and you can understand why puerto rico doesn t necessarily fit into his idea of america. whether he knows that it s part of the country or not. and on that visit that the president made down there, it was just so surreal and so obvious his inability to really kba thighs with these people and to comprehend or even accept and
of this president and it s stunning. we have examples in each of last three president siz, president obama s administration. the compassion to the american people, the expertise of the u.s. military, the s sets of the state department and usa id and we helped high tee. under george w. bush s mission the tsunami was one of the worst disasters i recall. we marshalled all the same kinds of assets that jeremy and elie are both talking about. is this the kind of example of whered president s this president s lack of knowledge about history, about america s role in the world and there was something that got less attention, but bob corker has now on two occasions talks about the president doesn t seemingly understand the office that he holds. is that what wur seeing in his response to puerto rico.
administration s miss handling of this humanitarian crisis. while you are amusing yourself throwing paper towels at us, your come patriots and the world are sending will you have and help our way. condemn us to a slow death of none drinkable water? lack of food, lack of medicine? while you keep others eager to help from reaching us. joining our conversation, jeremy bash, former chief of staff of both the cia and the pentagon, also an msnbc national security analyst, rick sentencing el, elie stocky else is back, along with phil rucker, who has a new piece in the washington post tonight. phil, start us off tonight with this day. another surreal day of the president trash talking an island decimated from a natural disaster. yeah. the day started pretty early in the morning with those tweets from president trump, and that was a remarkable statement from a u.s. president to threaten to
an enforcer, something he thought was lacking in the original sentence. it s that he s reinforcing and also he s using oral speech where what we re always doing is we re checking to see that the other person understands what we re saying, that they re in the same boat that we are. so that s what you know is. that s what things like l lo l can be in texting. he does that too, but once again, it s not in texting. he s doing it in formal circumstances, which means that he never leaves the realm of the casual when he speaks. which is unlike even, say, indigenous societies where there s no such thing as reading or writing yet. there s also a high way of talking and a low way of talking. the chief doesn t just get up and run his mouth. ours does. there s a friend of our broadcast, elie stocky else who works for the wall street journal who has covered him now for some time and says about donald trump there are visual and audio tells that he peppers his speech with where if you
there s a politics to this. we don t need a state of exception. we need a leader who takes care of the problem ask we need to take care of our own rights. i have a very good friend wo is the son much two survivors. his mother still lives. a piece of her leg is missing because of manning la s dog. she of course has a tattoo on her wrist. and i wonder in her 90s how she views these pictures coming out of places like charlottesville, what a time we re in. in 15 seconds, how do you put the chance of tyranny? the chance is ours to take. this is a challenge for us. we can learn very quickly that things that we need to learn. if each of us does a little thing that we see as our civic duty, we re going to be okay, but it s not a matter of waiting and seeing of the it s a matter of doing. the book is an owners manual in effect. professor timothy snierd. thank you very much for coming. my great pleasure.