i don t care if muslims don t like me. i don t care because i ve got scranton, i ve got eerie. what s he talking about. there you go. i ve got central iowa. this is why they haven t replaced obamacare. why we still don t have a tax bill or immigration legislation or infrastructure or anything else, it s because we keep getting distracted. we re very willing, particularly those of us in the media, to follow the distractions and make it all about donald trump. nothing s happened. if hillary were president we d be talking about full funding for title 20 education programs. anyway, we ll be right back after this.
and then get back into the, you know, kind he has to inject a little bit of him into this. the bigger question i raised at the beginning of this hour, which is this black friday, if you will. is the question of how he s managed to keep our attention. i mean every morning he gets up and he tweets. that s his technique. by 6:30 into the morning. i get in the car and i listen to sirius xm he has already made news by 6:30 in the morning. what do we make of this guy s ability to command our attention? you can t go to an evening in washington, i m on one side, on the other side is probably the same. it s all about trump. we re saying he only talks about himself. he s the person that everybody talks about, dana. you re the expert. you re the satirist. your column is fabulous because you ve got great material. i said the at the beginning of this show. this is a great show, chris. we picked that up. at the very beginning, we said the one true thing is it all about how does he get
retired until very recently. he hasn t been out there beating the drum for the democratic party or raising a whole lot of money. he sort of stepped back, which is the dignified way to go. but this guy keeps bringing him back. yeah. and for those who like obama, it, i think, even elevates obama and the importance of his eight years and how much they like him. i think it makes him rally around obama more. but for those who dislike obama, which there is a large, you know, percentage of this country that comprised trump s base, i think he knew there was a lot of dissatisfaction among people with obama, and i think that s what he has tried to tap into. they really like his attacks on obama. you know, jason, i hate to throw this at you, but i will. it just seems like he only plays to the whites. yeah. i mean it. whether it s immigrant people generally or it s from below the border or latinos or it s muslims, generally. in fact, when he says muslims, that audience applauds because of
being the moderator of that television show the apprentice. ? trump was sitting with the washington post at the time, it was one of his lowest moments. it may have something to do with that. in fairness to trump, previous presidents have always bashed their predecessor. that s not new. the obsession is. 134g in the trump psych ki, he needs to have an opponent to go against. you can play a similar reel against hillary clinton, certainly with little marco and lying ted and low energy jeb, but there s something extra about obama. just slow down when you said low energy. but there is something extra about obama and he benefits, the reason he s president is because of a backlash to obama and unfortunately there is i believe a racial component in that that drives everything. the base of his base. shannon, it seems to me he
. we re supposed to have some photographs up on the careen. there we are of the president in his office with his russian visitors the other day. these, of course, were taken by russian photographers. now there is a worry that there was a breach of security by allowing those people, those photographers in the oval office with their electronic equipment because, of course, this white house has no idea how to handle even the basic securities or protocols of the west wing. that s the last word for tonight. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. cloish . tonight, the nbc news sclif interview with president trump, facing direct questions for the first time about his firing of fbi director james comey and the answer he gave that blew up the cover story. also, new reporting on the dish between president trump and his former fbi director. for the first time comey s side of the story is starting to