And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. George lakoff for years has been studying political messaging and how people digest the message of public discourse. He is an author and Professor Emeritus of cognitive science and linguistics at u. C. Berkeley. He joins us to talk about how failing to understand unconscious thought and moral world views has frustrated democrats and progressives as they try to counter the trump message with basic logic. Professor lakoff, good to have you on the program. A pleasure to be here. Linguistically, size up donald trump for me. Its not just linguistically its mentally. He knows how not just to speak but how to change your brain and affect your brain very effectively. Hes a super salesman, and hes very good at it. You need to know a little about your brain which is ideas dont float in the air. Theyre in your neural circuitry. If you have a world view, your understanding of the world in general, then thats a lot of neural
The role ivanka trump and jared have in the white house. Republicans 2027488001. Democrats 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on media, twitter, cspanwj. Very good monday morning to you. Onwant to hear your thoughts the role of ivanka trump, and kushner. You can start calling in now. News last night of his travels weekend. This from the new york times. Several other news organizations well. Orting this as Senior Administration officials confirmed the visit to iraq over weekend, saying that mr. Kushner, the 36yearold, mr. Ing as Senior Advisor to trump was invited by the chairman and joint chiefs of staff. Repeatedly ump has arned to mr. Kushner creating parallel structure, the one led by secretary of state rex tillerson. And those headlines this kinds , adding to these of headlines, weve been seeing in the last couple of days even announced trip was late last night. From cnn, ivanka trumps and kushners ever growing fears of influence. Soninlaw Jared Kus
Michael cruz, what can we learn about donald trump from reading the art of the deal . We can learn a lot and we should. When youre studying donald trump and i think everybody at this point should be studying donald trump heard this is a foundational document. It sort of reads like a campaign playbook. First and foremost, what i think we can learn is that he is selling fantasy and hes doing that using hyperbole. Those are his words, not mine. In fact his words from the art of the deal are i play to peoples family fantasies. People might not think big themselves but they can get excited by those who do. Thats why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe something is the biggest and the greatest in the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. Thats exactly what he is doing. Hes not ashamed to say thats what he does. I did write an article for the wall street journal and asked him if this was his play book hiding in plain sight and he first was a little taken aback and
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Cant let it happen. I was being hit by poke poke there is little rubio. Lie lyin ted cruz, ladies and gentlemen, lyin ted i started running nine months ago. Who would have thought i would be in first place. It was 17 people, then 15, then 12. Deirdre donald trump reaches the official number, he has the 1237 delegates needed for the republican president ial nomination according to associated press. This is risk reward, im deirdre bolton. Here is is just earlier. Newsflash that donald trump had won the nomination. North dakota, you brought us over the line, folks. I will always remember that. Deirdre donald trump will avoid a contested convention in cleveland this summer. Someone who knows a lot about the process, former governor and president ial candidate mike huckabee, with me now. Governor, great to see you back. Thank you, deirdre. Great to be with you. Deirdre so donald trump the nominee officially. Yes. Deirdre we knew he was but he has the magic number now. On to vp picks. We spo