democrats calling you and your supporters white nationalist help you? i don t think it helps. i don t like when they do it because i m not any of those things. it s a disgrace and shows how desperate the democrats are. let s talk about it tonight with two journalist in the thick of it starting with jackie, political reporter for the washington post and author of the paper s morning newsletter appropriate recalled power up and politics reporter covering the 2020 campaign for the wall street journal. jackie, what do you think is more unusual, the fact that democrats are saying the president is a white supremacist or the fact people in his orbit are saying we re fine with that, it gives us something to fight back on. if we take a step back here, i m not sure anyone would expect in 2015 for the entire field of 20 plus democratic candidates to call the president of the united
i think my base relies very much on common sense and they rely on me in terms of telling them what s happening. reporter: the president was asked how his pledges this time around are any different after the parkland shooting when he made promises and didn t follow through. the president said he never said then what he s saying now. but after the parkland shooting he did support expanding background checks only to back down under pressure from the nra. pamela brown, cnn, the white house. let s talk about it, joining us, a lecturer in political science at university college london. thank you for being with us. thank you. let s talk about what we just heard from the president. we have heard promises from him before. multiple gun massacres have occurred since mr. trump became president but he hasn t taken action. let s listen right here to the president, speaking at the nra convention in april of this year. here it is.
just came out and not even at 1%. what do you need to do tonight to get ahead. i was 2% last week. let s get that clear. 1% or 2%. but there are others ahead of you. and i ve done what everybody else has talked about. tonight i have to open up more who i am and let my experience as a small business owner and an entrepreneur, as a mayor for a year and a governor for eight years, let that those stories come out. you tweeted this yesterday. elizabeth warren has some big ideas that have an even bigger cost. we proved in colorado that you don t need big expensive government programs to achieve progressive goals. let s talk about it tomorrow night. so are you planning to go after elizabeth warren given some of the positions she s stakes out? i m not going to go after her. but i do think this notion that we could have massive government expansions is a sure-fire way to hand the election to donald trump. to re-elect who i would argue is
place behind the podium. learning which camera he wants to look at if he wants to speak to the television audience. he will be emphasizing his effort tonight as one of the only candidates who has run a business, a city and state. he s a former mayor of denver. and also ran a craft beer brewery, prior to his time as the colorado governor, and perhaps tell graphing a line of attack tonight. he tweeted this out last night. elizabeth warren has big ideas. we proved in colorado you don t need big expensive programs to achieve goals. let s talk about it tomorrow night. as he goes after warren on twitter, we saw her earlier. she will be center stage alongside bernie sanders they ll be flanked by more moderate people. aas well as beto o rourke. this could be their last debate of the 2020 cycle because of the
to run it, how to do this and that. you know what? if they don t love it, tell them to leave it. cnn s reporting tonight, this is seen as a political strategy even though the president didn t tell anyone about it before he launched the tweet on sunday morning. let s talk about it tonight. former top obama advisor david axelrod and tara served as communications director for republican congressman dana. david, this seems like very dangerous waters and i m sure it s only going to get worse as we head to the election. i keep going back to history, you can imagine donald trump a l leader then telling jews to leave and the irish to leave and telling italians to get out and the chinese they aren t wanted. this is the same language, archie bunker people were laughing at it on tv in the 70s. it s a well worn ugly political tactic. we have to recognize we ve