of division, often one of hatred. sometimes, one of incitement to violence against journalists, and there is no escaping our collective responsibility. there was no escaping the tone that he sets for the country. harris: ari fleischer, you may know, has served as white house press e under president george w. bush. he told the new york times it s misleading to compare trump s behavior to his predecessors, because he was elected to be different from his predecessors. trump often sounds bad, but he acts well. president obama always knew what to say but he didn t always do things well. he didn t do things right. he had soothing words and comforting, nonthreatening language that didn t improve our standing anywhere, including domestically. first, josh, i want to get your response to those words by re. josh: i have trouble with this. on one hand, i do prefer a uniting force in times like this. i do think we operate best when the country comes together in tragedy. on the other hand,
containing a white powdery substance was sent to him in the mail. his wife opened it and was sent to the hospital, it was later deemed nonthreatening. then there is this tweet from steve scalise who knows what it is like to be the victim of a politically motivated attack. he said these attempted attacks are beyond criminal, acts of pure terror. violence and terror have no place in our politics or anywhere else in our society. former vice president joe biden weighing in, this country has to come together, this division, ugliness has to end. the fbi is working tirelessly to find whoever did this. jillian: numbers are in from the connors. the connors, rosanne barr s spinoff received 25% less viewers the second episode than those who tuned into the season premiere.
jesse: she brought the bird on. that was me. i have had a woman with an emotional support squirrel on my show so i have sympathy. you need something fuzzy and warm and nonthreatening. people are terrified of squirrels. greg: a squirrel brought an emotional support reptile. dana: al gore, a surprise endorsement for a penguin. this is stupid. he s trying to jesse: don t insult the other hosts picks. dana: no, i am insulting the former vice president of the united states. juan: i thought she was insulting me. the idea is to get young people locked into discussions about the environment, especially after this week with
i ve voted for people who are a little more moderate in the past. now i think we need to go progressive and get rid of some of the old ideas. that is kind of the interesting thing, right. progressive ideas are always portrayed, but for a lot of voters they re sort of tired of sort of the is it voters are tired of what the democratic party has been presenting, a safe candidate, nonthreatening, rather than gillum, no, these are my ideas? absolutely. every time i see this narrative of the civil war in the democratic party it drives me bonkers. if there s any civil war it s in the republican party. we saw that in full display yesterday. i think this woman is on to something. look at andrew gillum, look at stacy abrams in georgia, beto owe rourke in texas, look at ben in maryland, something is going on. it s not eric is right. this is no longer hillary versus bernie thing.
the speeches. but the generalized attempt to shut down speeches is a lot of the groups that have been on campus from the time i was a student myself. and they push for the ideas that they should be conservative free and be complete safe spaces for people on the left. not only because they think that conservatives will convince people but they think that conservatives are evil. they think that people like me are there to do them harm. when i show up and i m a nonthreatening character and i have never beaten anyone up in my life, then you know, that s the impact. yeah, well, again, you don t look threatening but ideas are threatening to these people. laura: in part two with ben he will reveal the latest tactic to shut him up, accusing him of, wait for it, terrorism. i kid you not. stay right there.