the threat of that is what kept weinstein s secrets for so long. absolutely. that s how the power dynamics work. they re not about sex, they re about power abuses. it wouldn t sexual harassment and sexual power abuses wouldn t happen if they didn t have the power to suppress, hire, fire, make or break the working lives of the women when we re talking about this in a professional context, that s one of the things that is in question as well as physical power. the fact that women are not believed, that they re shamed, that they re made out to be untrustworthy, crazy, vindictive, have axes to grind, that s part of the threat. and the fact that they should feel ashamed. all of these things are part of what works to make sexual harassment and assault possible. you had this incredible story
legislative agenda that has been by any standard a failure. over the weekend, peter baker wrote about the gap between donald trump and his actual policies. apparently the president did not enjoy baker s reporting, calling him out on twitter. quote, the failing new york times story by peter baker should have mentioned the rapid terminations of me of tpp and the paris accord. and peter baker joins me now. well, peter, someone said today eli stokols said the whole day felt like a rebuttal to the peter baker column. did you take it that way? no. i think he s got more things to think about than that. well, you d be surprised. maybe so. he had a reaction to the story, and that s fine. it s fair. actually thought his tweet was perfectly reasonable and civil. i have no kind of problem with feedback if he wants to talk about it, i would talk about with it with him. the point is to look at big ticket items and how the talk is more expansive than the actual actions.
dealing with in this long period of war, the longest period of war in the nation s history, people talking about this. what was your reaction to it? i was there when he was telling this, this story. first of all, he is mailing a letter tonight. he is mailing it tomorrow. but then when he couldn t resist taking a jab at president obama, that s when i thought is there no situation, mr. president, where you cannot resist taking a jab at obama? we re talking about four soldiers killed in action. all that was asked is are you going to send some kind of condolences to these families. and as you and josh pointed out, all he had to say is i am. it isn t unreasonable to say i wanted to give them a little time, if that s what he wanted to do. but once he started doing these comparisons that he had no fact basis on, and i applaud nbc s peter alexander for getting in that follow-up question. because it was pretty chaotic at that press conference. yeah. to trump s credit, he took a
michael steele of formerly of the republican national committee. what are you saying? how did you react having been in many of those press conferences with many different presidents dealing with in this long period of war, the longest period of war in the nation s history, people talking about this. what was your reaction to it? i was there when he was telling this, this story. first of all, he is mailing a letter tonight. he is mailing it tomorrow. but then when he couldn t resist taking a jab at president obama, that s when i thought is there no situation, mr. president, where you cannot resist taking a jab at obama? we re talking about four soldiers killed in action. all that was asked is are you going to send some kind of condolences to these families. and as you and josh pointed out, all he had to say is i am. it isn t unreasonable to say i wanted to give them a little time, if that s what he wanted
sometimes it s because congress hasn t gone as far as he would like on health care, for instance. sometimes he is talked out of going further like on the iran deal. both of those things happened on friday. well talked a lot about those. that is what the story was focusing on. it wasn t meant to be a review of his entire recognize. one is the legislative agenda. i want to talk about that first. today is the goal is to come out hey, we re buddies. two hours later, i m kind of with bannon in the civil war. but reality from everyone i know on the hill and the people that i talk to there and other reporters is that the white house and capitol hill are not at all in sync. no, they re not. and this is an attempt to show it obviously. but think about what we ve seen in the last couple of weeks. two weeks ago we saw the secretary of state come out that he felt compelled to deny that he was going to resign. a week ago we had the white house staff come out and deny he was going to resign. tod