today when they heard the president s words, nobody s safe, i mean, who s safe? we re not safe. yeah, again, that s not the way you are used to hearing a u.s. president speak. i you know n that instance, yeah, i understand what he was trying to say. but that s certainly not the way one expresses it. look, to be president of the united states, you know, two things we can learn tonight u need to know some history and you need to know it in a more sophisticated way than he knows american history. and you need to speak more carefully than he does. i mean, you just need to. and is there a learning curve? it seems to me he takes two steps forward on the score and then two full steps back. and we end up in the same place. with a tip of the hat to brian lamb who first made it cool the to talk about books on tv what better than to talk books with two pulitzer prize recipients, john myrtle
said coming and was angry, would never have let it happened. we welcome to our broadcast john myrtle beachham who took his place among historians long before he won a pulitzer, american lion, andrew jackson in the white house. and john, i thought about you when i first heard this news, wondered what was going through your mind. tell us? you are a jersey shore guy. i suspect you grew up with arcades along the sea shore. i went to a lake and there was is a ski ball machine and pin ball machines. and sometimes you would roll the ball and it would bounce out and hit the opinion ball machine. that s basically what s going on in donald trump s mind. he had basically he has two different ideas here, he has
who are voting to support donald trump. does this go against the norm? you want to close that enthusiasm gap and that may be in part people are starting to believe she s going to win. i think it s helpful she has a strong surrogate team like the obamas out there, and bernie sanders. you know, and getting encouraging exciting that coalition, the millennials, i think that s showing up in those numbers. even kelly ann conway said she couldn t have better surrogates. her surrogates are hall of fame mvps. does it show that her supporters are maybe more enthusiastic about donald trump? that s not what people have been saying. 59 and 60. they re animated by the donald trump presidency. now they are getting a positive notion that hillary clinton might win. it s a great opportunity for her to close on a high note. john, president obama s out on the campaign trail pounding republican candidates. let s listen to this. if the world that they ve been seeing is that i m powerful
just stop talking about the polls. don t talk about them. talk about your message, what people are responding to. that s his winning message, don t talk about the polls. you want to say anything about that, john? i don t know why we would suddenly expect this to become a conventional october since it s been a wildly unconventional 18 months. mark s right, i mean, ultimately he would be making his closing argument, he d be dealing with the message. he d be driving it home, this is not in anyway fit any historical pattern, or conventional pattern, mark has worked in politics, i ve read a lot about it, and this is just something that s suis jeneris. in the meantime, we saw hillary clinton on the campaign trail, moving her focus to down ballot races, does that mean she thinks her campaign is she has this election in the bag? i don t know if she has it in the bag, but she s thinking about governing, she s clearly mr. trump may not
and the never trumpers are doing everything they can to make sure they don t hand this to us. it s up to the american voter, it s time to the deplorables. it s time to get out of her basket and make our voice heard. she s from the blaze, but that s tommy leran, i believe, on trump s facebook. what do you think of that, mark? well, i in terms of whether it s an impact before the election, it s a channel directed at the supporters he s already got. it s not going to be helpful in expanding his base. on the other hand, it s sending a message to the significant group of voters who are going to be around after the election, they re not going to be any happier, they re going to be a lot angrier. to meacham s point, they re sitting out there, something s going to happen with them, i think it s already divided the republican party in two distinct different parties, it s hard to see how that s going to heal quickly. want to ask you, john, what