platforming and publishing, said liar, the problem is us. that, ladies and gentlemen, is textbook gas lighting. i say this with sadness, affection, awe and a little bit of envy. we live in a world in which your immediate family, your child s immediate circle of teachers, coaches, friends, friends parents, your neighbors, loved ones and social circle doesn t include people who voted for different people than you voted for, than you live in the only silo i m aware of. this is annerson s cooper defense of cnn s campaign style event earlier in the week. maybe you haven t been paying attention to him since he left off and enjoying not hearing from him, saying it can t happen again, some investigation is going to stop him. it hasn t so far. so if last night showed anything, showed it can happen again. it is happening again. he hasn t changed. and he is running hard. you have every right to be outrame and angry and never watch this network again gut do you think stay nurg silo an
i m covered every sitdown interview that every reputable journalist has done with donald trump, you have sat here with a lot of them, all of you have, jonathan swan sat down with donald trump and asked him whatever the latest siding with russia instead of the intelligence agency, i think i led the show, when donald trump is interviewed by credible journalists on tape, i always cover the news that is made. this is not about that. this is about you saying to your viewers, it is you, not us, that you didn t like, a campaign style rally, when the sporpers were guffawing and after, with a sexual abuse trial. the day after he was found liable, he was able to change the story from what happened in court to what happened on cnn. . what i would question, i talked to chris one time, around, concerns around don lemon and he seemed to be reasonable, and what i would ask is where is
hollywood, or in, on the west side of manhattan, you run into, you encounter people all day long, as you say, in your kid s schools and your gym or whatever. most people s parents, children, i mean and trump voters, you ve been listening to, you you ve been having this discussion, argument, fight for the last now, going on seven years. going on seven years. so i think there is some truth to both, there s some truth to both points. i think in the end, i understand the arguments that are made, and i think it is a very difficult thing to wrestle. with a former president of the united states, approves a front-runner for the republican nomination and you got to cover him and you got to cover him every day on the show and it is hard to take a position, when you do this show in five years, we should not give donald trump air time with the danger he poses to american democracy. i know we talked about it the last 30 seconds before we came
of killing mexicans and mexican-americans because they had come to believe the great replacement theory which again connects us to buffalo. that you had another gunman who believed that white americans were being replaced by black americans. and it is not just donald trump who is out there espousing some of the beliefs whether our not they are explicit or white washed. you have an entire infrastructure that is repeating these things on demand. knowing that there are real world consequences. with all of their echo chambers doing the leg work for them and connecting them to anyone receptive to acting on them. jonathan, how do we get at that, not just the actors or stages and events and dates and places and times that they happen when we happen to know it, but everything that emanates from it, the whole spread. it is an ecosystem of intolerance and it indeed does have a kind of ugly spread.
not debating my opponents. i don t have to. i got an hour free on cnn. this is about supreme discomfort with what we do with donald trump, and the person at the table who has known him the longest, what do you think we should do with donald trump? i think we ought to either ignore him, which i think is perilous, because he s going to pick up steam, he has a following, or we need to confront him. donald trump, with all of his bluster, and as you said, i ve known him a long time, and i applaud him, donald trump does not like somebody that will fight him back. notice he picks his fights. and he knows people that will not fight him back. and he looks for that weak spot in you, and he goes after it, and if he can t find it, he s not going to mess with you. and that s how he has been for 30 years. because he s just that kind of guy. he is not as bad as his block, but he knows most people run