redemptive power. that s the phrase that those four women were acting on in the previous tape. these are my people, too. yep. that is the countertradition that we must find in this moment. yeah. and, unfortunately, won t find it in the white house. anan thank you very much. house speaker nancy pelosi meanwhile has had something of a fraught relationship with the same democratic women who trump attacked this weekend. in a tweet yesterday, in response to trump s comments, pelosi said the following. i reject trump s xenophobic comments meant to divide our nation. rather than attack members of congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects the american values. stop the raids. #familiesbelongtogether. i m joined by a columnist at the new york times and jayson johnson, the politics editor at the root. jason, i m going to start with you at the table. i think of the wages of whiteness conversation. trump doesn t have anything to offer his base. there i
i reject trump s xenophobic comments meant to divide our nation. rather than attack members of congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects the american values. stop the raids. #familiesbelongtogether. i m joined by a columnist at the new york times and jayson johnson, the politics editor at the root. jason, i m going to start with you at the table. i think of the wages of whiteness conversation. he is offering them this thing that is more powerful. i think about the democrats now, they seem to have an offer as well, which is we are going to somehow find the past when we could do policy and go back to an era when we had normal politics. right. is that a stronger i mean, she said let s do policy on immigration. is that a stronger argument than what trump is doing? no, no, it s not a stronger policy. it s like you can t give me i want real coke, not diet coke. i want the real thing.
she had a way to communicate in a memorable way. don t put someone up there desperately clinging for their next opportunity to run for office, somebody who is going to deliver your message. it certainly beat the american gothic of chuck and nancy in the hallway. i thought it was very stiff. their words were all right. humanity came across. charm. upbeat. positive. we can win this thing, even though we re out of power and the country s going to like us when we win. jason johnson, thank you. yamiche, you re great. where are you, in washington? i m in arlington. thank you for coming on tonight so late. thanks. up next, how will the democrats react to tonight from a policy perspective? we re going to get serious now. will they stand their ground? i don t know how they blow this thing up. how is the president going to get his wall when nancy pelosi calls that wall immoral and at
our leaders refuse to expand medicaid, which could save rural hospitals, save economies and save lives. it is immoral to allow politicians to harm women and families to advance a political agenda. we affirmed marriage equality and yet the lgbtq community remains under attack. i m joined right now by jayson johnson, politics editor at theroot.com and yamiche alcindor, with the pbs news hour. i liked it. maybe because i like southern liberals. simpler than the northern liberals. they re too complicated up north. i liked the fact it was so basic and optimistic and happy, even. happy liberal. patriotic liberal. i wish the president would not fall. he s probably going to fail but i don t want him to fail. it was nuanced and i thought perfect. your thoughts? it was nuanced, but the optics were so striking here. you have president delivering the speech in the house chamber,
road americans want, look, i may not like you. i was hoping it would shift tonight. he didn t shift. he didn t shift at all. chris, this is the other reason the speech sounded so good. remember, stacey abrams is a writer. she s written romance novels. she s written comedies. she had a way to communicate in a memorable way. don t put someone up there desperately clinging for their next opportunity to run for office, somebody who is going to deliver your message. it certainly beat the american gothic of chuck and nancy in the hallway. i thought it was very stiff. their words were all right. humanitari humanity came across. charm. upbeat. positive. we can win this thing, even though we re out of power and the country s going to like us when we win. jason johnson, thank you. yamiche, you re great. where are you, in washington? i m in arlington. thank you for coming on tonight so late. thanks.