especially women. on the other side, trump retains strong support among evangelical, rural and non-college-educated white voters and women. let s begin with mary catherine hamm, senior political analyst david gergen. happy election day, all. good to be in your town. let me start with you and then follow up with you, david. has trump managed to do something, no matter what side you re on, that bloggers and politicians and tv ads haven t been able to do because he s made voting great again? look, i do think there s energy on both sides and i think it s a bit understated that some of these republican enthusiasm
both illegal and in some cases legal immigration that, of course, progressives love. let s have a conversation. with me now cnn political commentato commentator, mary catherine hamm and cnn opinion writer ronald reyes. so welcome to both of you. and mary catherine, just starting with you, when you watch laura ingram say what she just did, she comes across as ignorant and racist. so can you help me understand what she was trying to say? well, actually i did look through all of germher monologud tried to reason this out in the most charitable way possible, but i couldn t do it. because she says demographic shifts both legal and illegal, demographics matter, and then later she says it s not about race or ethnicity, it s about understanding that american
still have plan b, which is doing family separation issues separately in a separate bill. it remains to be seen, however, whether that is something that president trump, in fact, supports. abby phillip at the white house where the story keeps shifting and shifting. i appreciate the reporting. with me in the studio, eliana johnson of politico, mary catherine hamm with the federalists. why is the question. congress must act. that was the president of the united states 40 hours ago, maybe 72 hours ago, congress must act. this morning the same president. congress is wasting its time. is he just listening to the right, listening to those who say, mr. president, you don t want to sign a paul ryan bill we call amnesty. i think we can show you breitbart headlines. that s one of the places this is being attacked. is that all this is or is the president tweeting out of frustration? what is it? there s been no real policy throughout this, and i think you re seeing that in the
saying attorney general jeff sessions should be fired. he said it s time to fire sessions and end this mueller investigation. you can t obstruct something that was phony against you. so with me, mary catherine hamm and a cnn writer for the knockout. ladies, good to see both of you in person. just starting with the parscale news. apparently he s irked that we re talking about this crisis on the border and not more about the findings of the i.g. report, you say what? first, it s a lower ranking gop official than usual. it s usually trump himself so i m not terribly surprised someone s saying that. they could be talking about the i.g. report. as usual, many of these wound are self-inflicted and the zero tolerance policy getting a lot of press is mostly due to them enacting a zero tolerance policy
that s a platform he doesn t have in this country thanks to democracy. here s the white house on the president s praise today. that s a factual statement. a lot of people have done some bad things however the president hasn t ignored the bad things that have been done by the north korean regime. he s called it out on a number of occasions and he brought it up at the summit. mary katherine, what do you make of the praise that the president is lavishing kim jong-un with as well as the salute when he saw the north korean general salute him, he saluted back. i think it s two things. i think he does want the deal and he likes people who like him and as angela was referencing he has a moral blind spot for guys who are strong men so that combines to give you this behavior. on the salute, he was returning the salute not initiating it but the people mad about obama saluting with a coffee cup in