knew it was coming. it s how they did it that was more important than what they did. is it inexperience, or is it this is our style, my way or the highway? we re going to do this. the rest of you be damned. perception is everything. especially when you are selling a controversial policy like this. the messaging people are interpreting this as a muslim ban, and the white house is saying it s not a muslim ban, but the fact that it s been perceived that way is in large part because they do not explain exactly what they are doing here, and you can tell from the slips you are playing in the campaign how toxic just the idea of a muslim ban was that they had to change their language through the course of the campaign to sound like extreme vetting because that sounds better than a muslim ban. this is a real problem if you don t sell it to the public, sell it to your own party. you don t have a kpleer communication strategy. they changed the messaging and the policy. in real-time. they
an interesting outcome. this may be good news. plus, a school district that pays struggling students to go to summer school. talk about outrage. we re going to chat about that this morning. we re going to begin with the olympics and the night that was filled with so much promise and ended in so much disappointment for the u.s. men s gymnastics team after finishing first in the trials, they entered the finals last night as favorites. but a fall on the floor, two costly errors in the pommel horse and a fall on the vault undid team usa. halfway through six rotations they were in last place. last. but they rallied at the last minute to finish in fifth place. better, but still not great. amanda davies joins us from london. they were talking so big going into the finals. what happened? i think the mood in london at the olympic park today probably reflects the mood of the u.s. men s gymnastics team. gray and gloomy is the best way to sum it up. they were hotly tipped for a