for people across this country to unite. mayor, thank you so much for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. thank you. let s dig into what all of this means. joining us now, former assistant to president obama and white house cabinet secretary and a pair of msnbc contributors jason johnson politics editor at the root.com and noah brockman associate commentator and also the author of unjust, social justice and the unmaking of america. noah, the divide and conquer strategy worked for the president when he ran in 2016. in 2018 it failed. the days, the weeks leading up to the mid toirms, that is when the president went hard on the caravan, called for sending military down to the border. what did people do? they showed up to vote and voted against that and voted for solving health care and other issues like that. what s up with the president going back to this strategy? i don t know.