much damage was done by donald trump putting himself back out there the last week. everybody thought remember john heilemann, tuesday. i believe. show discipline over this last stretch by not going out, and then he came out at the very end. not only that, two nights in a row, or two speeches in a row he made fun of political violence. he mocked nancy pelosi. he mocked nancy pelosi s husband. getting his head smashed in, and an act of political violence, and, again, i go back to baseball cranks saying that, you know, when when we re talking about trump, democrats win. when we re talking about biden, republicans win. and trump always shifts it to him and now he s done it yet again for herschel walker a guy he selected. a guy he s scamming off of, making money off of, and now a guy, he stepped in when
and i get it s complicated, what is the clear solution? a brushup doesn t sound like a clear solution. right. they re taking hard-line action on people. that is a useful thing for people who want clear divisive action. the much bigger problem they had was the pipeline, the pipeline to extremism that they were creating and making money off of. that s gone. people who repeatedly brush up against these things, they re not allowed to make money on there anymore. they re not allowed to say go donate money to me in the chat. they re not allowed to make money on the ads that are being prerolled on all of these things. this is youtube this is a complete about-face. a couple of months ago they said this would not happen. but now this is a completely
he s making money off of money. he s not making that off of labor. and he s paying less than 15%, which is far less than your working class americans are paying in taxes. so it makes a lot of common sense for obama to really hammer away at this in the general election. how much of a problem, professor, do you think this is for mitt romney, when it comes to ethics in government, some regulations about being forthcoming under a number of different laws. what do you make of it? well, i think back to 2008 when john mccain looked at 23 years of mitt romney s returns and he chose sarah palin as his vice presidential choice. so i think there s actually a lot there that he is very afraid to release. otherwise, he would have done it already. here s president obama on whether gingrich s food stamp president has an undercurrent of race. let s play it. i think the american people are going to make a judgment about who s trying to bring the country together and who s dividing it. who reflec
november? i think they can, if you look at polls, three quarters of americans want the wealthy americans, meaning the top 1%, to pay more in taxes. and it s no surprise. i mean, look at mitt romney, he s making $60,000 a day, and he s making money off of money. he s not making that off of labor. and he s paying less than 15%, which is far less than your working class americans are paying in taxes. so it makes a lot of common sense for obama to really hammer away at this in the general election. how much of a problem, professor, do you think this is for mitt romney, when it comes to ethics in government, some regulations about being forthcoming under a number of different laws. what do you make of it? well, i think back to 2008 when john mccain looked at 23 years of mitt romney s returns and he chose sarah palin as his vice presidential choice. so i think there s actually a lot there that he is very afraid to release. otherwise, he would have done it already. here s president ob
isn t this a huge problem? it is a big problem. usually being really rich is a huge advantage in running for office. and we know about people who self-fund, which he has done some of. so it s a great thing to have that much money to spend. but, boy, he is caught in the buzzsaw of this debate, and i thought it was most striking not with warren buffett or obama, but in the republican debate when he turned to the newt and said, well, under your plan, someone like me would pay nothing. someone who makes as many millions as he does. you really don t want to be cast in that role in this kind of climate. professor, about income inequality. can the democrats ride this conversation all the way to november? i think they can, if you look at polls, three quarters of americans want the wealthy americans, meaning the top 1%, to pay more in taxes. and it s no surprise. i mean, look at mitt romney, he s making $60,000 a day, and he s making money off of money. he s not making that off of labor.