there are lots of challenges covering the news in the trump era especially with the impeachment inquiry heating up. take the congressman storming the secure deposition yesterday. or lindsey graham resolution today condemning democrats for the impeachment process. are these big news developments? attempts to distract. reflect or both. is it news or not? here s to discuss. the guy who knows it. phillip bump knows. i really don t know. thank you all. senator graham introduces this resolution blasting democrats for the handling of the impeachment inquiry. he wants to have a vote. it s all about process. it s not about facts in this case. is this news or not? certainly news when a senator
hillary clinton with african-american women at this point in 2007, either. so it s wide open. that s exactly the point. and that s why we do the rudy giuliani/fred thompson gut check to remind people of that. cornell belcher and ryan grim, thank you both for being with me. i m heading over to the theater to do a live pod reporting. have an amazing time. i m really looking forward to it. okay, bye, good luck. i know, traffic. he has to rush. yes, exactly. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. hope you had a great weekend. i did my best. i will say, this was one of those weekends, though, where the news kept creeping in. i feel like we don t get weekends off anymore in terms of big news developments. you probably heard this weekend that the president had a change of heart. he decided that holding next year s g-7 summit at his private resort this florida maybe
so i think if mitch mcconnell feels this strongly, perhaps he should be a little tougher on the president on things like buying influence from foreign governments and his entire relationship with putin. i find it remarkable he can be so harsh and so exacting on this absolute insane policy move that serves no one other than perhaps trump s ego. erdogan, syria, iran and write an op-ed that doesn t mention the president s name. a few polls that have come out on this and seems pretty strong opposition to trump s policy here on syria. watching the events over the last 24 hours, the news developments right now, how deeply do you think the american people because oftentimes you have that reality in politics, if it s happening overseas, it doesn t necessarily register. how is this one registering, do
absolutely inane policy move that really serves no one but trump s ego, erdogan, syria, iran and yet write an op-ed that doesn t mention the president s name. a few polls that have come out on this and seems pretty strong opposition to trump s policy here on syria. watching the events over the last 24 hours, the news developments right now, how deeply do you think the american people because oftentimes you have that reality in politics, if it s happening overseas, it doesn t necessarily rej str. how much do you think this registers, do you think? i m not exactly sure ow deep it s penetrating into the american psyche. they don t the history of syria and turkey, but what is sort of permeating in various communities they re seeing democrats and republicans say this is very bad idea and it
which is i m not sure that television news can capture this moment, right? what we do, we re presenting another side and tit-for-tat. that s no the what this is. there s not another side. the president of the united states of america put out a racist statement that s unamerican and is wrong. there s nothing partisan about it. there s not two sides to it. it just is. that is what is. anything that we sort of now discuss in response to that immediately because so many people view news developments through this notion of this happened and now this response and what and i m happy to talk about political implications in all of this. we have to separate out first and foremost the president put out a racist statement. it is unamerican and it is wrong, period. okay? now what i found very interesting about the press conference with the four congresswomen is that they, as