that s what america is. he doesn t understand that. final question to you, what do you think historians, the michael beschloss s of the future, when they re writing about a president in this period, what their judgment will be about his moment at this his role in this moment in american politics? i think they will say this exposed the kind of person he really is. he can t even pretend in public to be otherwise. can t pretend to be a unifier. as bad as it is in public it s probably a good thing for him that there are no donald trump tapes because, chris, can you imagine what he might have been saying in private about this the last 36 hours? i don t even want to imagine. michael beschloss, thank you for joining me. the person in charge of homeland security was focused on last night instead of the possible mass assassination attempt against president obama and other senior democrats.
democratic leaders and their supporters. i think that we re running a great campaign. people love what we re doing. they love what we re saying. the republicans had tremendous momentum, and of course this happened where all that people talked about, and rightfully so, it was big thing. rightfully so. but now we have to start the momentum again. joining me a assistant professor of policy at the kennedy school of government, and michelle goldberg, columnist for the new york times. michelle, i find it morbidly amusing the way the president and his supporters have been explicit about how bummed they are that this speculate of violence against the opposition has stopped people talking about the migrants in central america. this is lou dobbs. fake news has successfully changed the narrative from the onslot of illegal immigrants and broken border security to suspicious packages. let s get back to the left-wing driven caravans and the dimms
the election is the thing. you know, you can write your columns, and i used to be a reporter, and i love to write. you can go on television. the people have the power. you ve got to take away the power from the mitch mcconnells. yes. from the paul ryans, from the dean hellers. and i could go on. and the only way to do that is the vote. because all this outrage doesn t mean anything if the same people are in power. i will say this. my own take on this is that it s necessary, but not sufficient. some sort of political check on power of the president in the republican party is necessary to contain the worst impulses. the deeper pathologies on display, they re on display anyone that looks at those rallies, looks at the way the president conducts himself, conducts himself, not as president, but as a human being, a human being who the earth with some sense of humanity and empathy for fellow human beings is horrified unless they re
people love what we re doing. they love what we re saying. the republicans had tremendous momentum, and of course this happened where all that people talked about, and rightfully so, it was big thing. rightfully so. but now we have to start the momentum again. joining me a assistant professor of policy at the kennedy school of government, and michelle goldberg, columnist for the new york times. michelle, i find it morbidly amusing the way the president and his supporters have been explicit about how bummed they are that this speculate of violence against the opposition has stopped people talking about the migrants in central america. this is lou dobbs. fake news has successfully changed the narrative from the onslot of illegal immigrants and broken border security to suspicious packages. let s get back to the left-wing driven caravans and the dimms who drive them. this is all a mass assassination campaign is a
and all false flag theories that blame the left, they just serve as distractions that make it harder for law enforcement and embolden copy cats. yeah, that s the thing that i keep coming back to is that the sort of wink, wink, nudge, nudge, the rhetoric. and this as well, and this goes down to nielsen, it s not just the president, this is why the kirstjen nielsen thing is remarkable. bill shine, unhirable, alleged come policity, he s now working at the white house where he sort of co-produces things with his former employer fox and not just the president. everyone around the president essentially functions as cogs in the wheels of creating this alternate distraction economy. they create the alternate distraction economy and they re also stuck in this place where they re bound by the president s words. you saw chris wray today, when