the president s false equestion valence when talking about the threat of violence at the border. it s friday, november 2nd. mika has the morning off. along with willie and me we have the legendary mike barnacle. donnie deutsche still with us. former aid to the george w. bush white house elise jordan. and co-host and executive producer of showtime s the circus, john heilemann. jonathan swan and co-founder an managing editor of the beat d.c., tiffany cross. willie, i was going to talk about donny deutsch being a legendary ad man and marketsing guru but he showed a picture last hour that i couldn t shake from my mind. i fear it may haunt me for the better part of the weekend.
it s the weird what aboutism in this case. are there violent people in the counter protest? of course. they ve been at many rallies before. we re talking about a woman who died. a 32-year-old woman died because not of those groups but the white nationalist groups who were there in charlottesville this weekend. there s time in life where moral equestion valence becomes unequal. here he is in colombia. this is a country that s been ravaged by terrorism for decades. what we saw the other day was terrorism. was the intentional use of force against civilians for political purpose. when this woman was killed, and the car mowed down people that s domestic terrorism in the united states. you can t separate who we are at home from what we project abroad. what happened the other day is not just domestic reality also an expression of what the united states now is. when the president doesn t condemn this it undermines our