and support the president. and that s what romney said in response to this. he said something like, you know, it would have been less civil if we were, you know, at the thanks gigiving dinner tabl talking about this. it s unique and also just like seeing the party structure, the response to romney s op-ped was, like, double bing down, oh, may we con somehow block a 2020 primary challenger though that ship has sailed because they would have had to change the rules in 2016. there was this response especially defenders in congress. rand paul held a press conference about the op-ped which was interesting to say the least. part of it is so weird, there s like this witchcasting, there s this aggrievedness, mckay, you have sprub can repuby are you on my case about the guy i support and vote with who s the most powerful person in the world who i think and you think is a psychopath? like, what s the problem? why are you in my face about it? it s like, that s why because
and adversarial in some cases the political press needs to be over the next four years. there need to be reporters that s right. digging into the trump organization, there need to be reporters holding the white house accountable and fighting every act that he tries to take to limit press access. that needs to happen. has to happen. i want to thank you both. i want to just let our viewers know what they re watching. two big anti-trump protests tonight in the cities of baltimore and portland. we ve got obviously we ve got eyes on that. there s also protests in milwaukee and minneapolis as well. we will be bringing you footage of that throughout the night as the reaction to what happened, the seismic cataclysm that happened in this country, historic really, as everyone processes the reverberations of that throughout the country. those are images of denver at this moment. people taking to the streets across the country. and that is just sort of the first few days. there s a l
field is as big as it is, i mean, there s 17 candidates, right? 25% actually would be enough to win if all 17 candidates stayed in. right. i imagine a lot of them will start dropping out. i also think that if we get close to iowa and donald trump is leading and looking like he could actually win, i think you ll see two things happen. one that is you ll see a lot of republican super pacs start really tar carpet bombing iowa and other states with ads about his past positions and things like that. i also think that you ll see some backroom deal-making trying to get lesser candidates who don t have a shot out of the race so that they stop splitting the vote and hopefully can elevate another candidate. i think the republican party absolutely does not want to see him win any state. and the third question mark will be what that coverage on fox news looks like. exactly, which will really tell you where it s going. incredibly fast. mckay coppens, thanks for
gone too far. on for days. it s getting buzzfeed attention, trump attention, people want to read about trump. that doesn t mean they re going to vote for him. at the end of the day people want to read about him or mckay would not be reading about it or you would not see tweets be a about how irrelevant the guy is. the key distinction he thinks this gets him credibility. everybody pointing and laughing at limb doesn t necessarily made him a more credible political figure. entertainers are pointed at to be laughed at. i tried to do that with my piece. i don t think anyone came away reading that thinking we should take him any more seriously than we have been. i think that in the future, people are not going to stop writing about him, right. i think that in the context of a political campaign, yeah, i think the political press could do a little better. this is myself included. making clear that this is not a real political candidate, not a
oh, yeah. sometimes we do. let s talk about not talking about that guy. donald trump. the press rarely passes up a chance to cover the donald, on fox and friends every monday, a standing invitation there. in my opinion this network sometimes takes him too seriously. constant presence on twitter getting into fights which result in more coverage. the real estate mogul and ralty tv star and hawker of presidential birth certificate myths was taken down on buzzfeed by the writer mckay who got to hang out with trump at a political speech in new hampshire, flew on trump s plane and spent the night at trump s passion in palm beach, florida. trump was expecting a glowing profile but got this, the quote, trump s political career a long con the billionaire has perpetrated on the country for 25 years by repeatedly pretending to consider various runs for office finally appears