Beliefs and values. Everyone knows hart plays around. I love my husband very much. The story was the journalistic equivalent of an abomb. Its about sex and power. Who was this woman and what was his relationship with her . I do not have to answer that question. He went from being an icon to being a joke. America in the late 1970s was still emerging from vietnam and suffering through a hostage crisis in iran. The country was in the mood for change. We were post watergate, post vietnam, the public had become skeptical of its leaders. There was a great deal of questions about character and trust in character. Look at what nixon had shown us, Lyndon Johnson had shown us. Ins incessant lying about vietnam had took a toll on us. We were a more cynical country. Out of a fog of mistrust emerged a brave new voice. Our Public Servants have to be charged with a higher duty than merely staying out of jail. They must attempt as much as humanly possible, to embody the highest values of this nations
well, i do agree, but i think we have toned it down. we ve been getting hit left and right from everybody. i think my rhetoric, it brings people together. welcome back. that was president trump responding to a couple of questions about his rhetoric this morning before he left for dayton and el paso. here s our panel for today. juana summers, theresa kumar, howard feinman, and john podhoritz. nice to see you. thank you. maria, let me start with you. you heard a fellow el paso native there, and he said he didn t want to see the president there. this is one of those occasions where it feels like actually,
not an isolated incident. after the president warned of caravans, you had somebody go into the tree of life synagogue in pittsburg warning of caravans. you had the mosque in victoria, texas, burn to the ground on the day that trump signed his executive order seeking to ban muslim travel to the united states. so, there are very real consequences to his words, to his tweets, to the racism. welcome back. that was beto o rourke in the last hour talking about our own jacob soboroff, juana, mar ia, john, and howard are back. john, let me start with you. you know, a week ago, democrats were at each other s throats. and now they all are on the same message. it s remarkable. i mean, you look at it. biden, bullock, booker, beto, and other candidates not with a b in their name. what about cs and ds. [ laughter ] exactly. everybody is on the same message on the democratic field all of a sudden focusing on one man, one
the white house probably it was probably one of those things that on one hand maybe it would be better if they didn t go. my family s not from el paso. my in laws recently moved and have lived there for 15 years and i ve seen and become part of the community every time i go. fair enough. but we spent the summer there with my kids and it s a beautiful community. i think the challenge, and this is what, howard, you and i were discussing, is that the challenges of el paso is an apolitical city. it lives in a bubble because it doesn t have crime. it doesn t have and so all of a sudden the wool has been pulled over their under their eyes. i am doing this very poorly because it s actually very hard to see a community that was so innocent just almost a week ago come face-to-face with what hate looks line. when we would talk about the site, they just weren t paying attention about politics. and seeing the devastation and the president even being able to