It is affecting peoples attitus as they enter the political process, and i believe at this point, the democrats believe that that will work to their advantage, but as i said, these things are organic, and just as bill clinton kind of rethought and redefined the Democratic Party after three consecutive losses during the reagan and first bush presidencies, there may be a republican on the horizon who will similarly do that and be able to capture the imagination of his or her party, and then win in the national election. Its what keeps people like me going. [laughter] [applause] thank you, all, very much. [applause] up next on booktv, arguing the American Media aided in the reelection of president barack obama saying the media was consistently critical of the Republican Party and the nominee, mitt romney, while negligent to do the same with barack obama. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you, john, and my thanks to the harming foundation for inviting me. If i cough, i got a tickl
He catapulted to first place the moment he opened up on the media. He did it twice. And that wasnt spontaneous. Nothing that Newt Gingrich does is spontaneous. Hes a master strategist, and it was the right thing to do, and it catapulted him into first place. Look, everybody talks about how unpopular the congress is. The media are even more unpopular than congress. Their Approval Rating is about 8 . Thats nothing to write home about. Its not a very wise thing to go out to Middle America and say, hi, im a reporter for the Washington Post. Thats going to win you friends. It should be. It should be the position of a candidate running to give them one chance to say at the outset im going to give you one chance to be fair and balanced. If youre not, im coming after you. Im going to make you the issue in this campaign. And it will take no effort whatsoever to do that. But i always believe to give them an opportunity, always give them the first opportunity, then eviscerate them. [laughter] yes
To the top with his ads. Well talk about who is winning the ad war and more. Later, the growing crisis in local news and why democracy is suffering as a result. A reporter will be here to tell us about the fate of her paper and other papers owned by mcclatchy now that that company is going bankrup. But first, the aspiring autocrat and the medias response. As this banner on fox says, President Trump is unleashed. Thats why there are growing fears of democratic backsliding, a term used to describe the eroding of institutions that sustain democracy. Another way to put it is creeping autocracy. Thats a word were increasingly seeing tied to President Trump. You can see it in headlines, trumps authoritarian style remaking america, things like that. A lot of these are opinion columns, perspective pieces. These are important concepts. My question is how can the nations news media make time and space to explain this . We live in this news story every minute, in an infosaturated world. This may
A modest rebound today after its worst plunge since march over coronavirusspike fears. The dow was up 470 points today. And larry kudlow is echoing Steven Mnuchins comments saying the United States will not shut its economy again and kudlow even went a step further than mnuchin. I spoke to our Health Experts at some length last even. Theyre saying there is no second spike. Let me repeat thatthe. There is no second spike. There is no emergency, no second wave. I dont know where that got started on wall street. For what its worth, heres what larry kudlow had to say on february 25th about the coronavirus spreading in the United States. We have contained this, we have contained this i wont say airtight but pretty close to airtight. There you go. I dont know how much you want to take those comments to the bank right now. President trump is gearing up for a series of controversial public appearances beginning with a commencement speech at west point tomorrow. Cadets had left the academy in m
We are going to do what we can and get through it. Thats all we can do. I have a son i have to take care of. He has to drink milk and stuff and use the water. He has to take a bath. As to when they can turn the water back on is anyones guess. Bill mike, whats going on today. Reporter this is a scene thats going to be tapal around the toledo, ohio border. You have the people lining up to get a cool drink of water or a lukewarm drink of water. There is a long line of people lining up to get their water. Directly behind our Camera Position you have members of the 200th squaw dwron the air National Guard. They are filling up these water buffaloes are potable water. In a rare muse conference the mayor said tests show there was clean water but this will repeat because some of the tests were to closer to comfort. Well get to the end of this tunnel but when we get out of this tunnel well come out with what i hope to be positive outcomes and everywhere else in the news was this is critical to t