he was trying to make a case that he has a reasonable compromise pitch out there and if democrats don t do a deal with him on it, it will be their fault. i thought a weaker argument there than on taxes because his proposal is extreme in various dimensions and not an offer designed for democrats to get to yes on it. the sort of over the top fearmongering that he does about public safety concerns related to immigration, we saw this in the virginia governor s race in november where the republicans made that a central theme. it didn t serve them well. they ended up losing by nine. you talked about the about the ms-13. let me talk about immigration. a lot of things i want to bring up. it was the most fascinating part of the speech. john, josh mentions dwelling on crime, dwelling on ms-13. what i thought i might be hearing there is a president who is worried about his base priming them for something they may see as a sellout. that is the legalization for
all-out war on environmental protection, a justice department rolling back civil rights by the day. hatred and supremacy. proudly marching in our streets. bullets tearing through our classrooms. concerts and congregations targeting our safest sacred places. and this nagging sinking feeling no matter your political beliefs that this is not right. this is not who obviously we are. and joining us now john editor of commentary magazine, john barrett and maria teresa kumar from voto latina, all three msnbc contributors. josh, i was reading your
that is very different than what the current administration is offering. > this will be something that the government funding deadline, the latest one a few weeks away. this issue is going to intensify in the near future. john, maria, thanks to both of you. coming up, how democrats are reacting to the president s state of the union speech especially on the issue as we ve been talking about on the issue of immigration. jeff merkley is going to be there. the president said the the word russia only once in his speech last night and didn t talk about what happened in the 2016 election.
he was trying to make a case that he has a reasonable compromise pitch out there and if democrats don t do a deal with him on it, it will be their fault. i thought a weaker argument there than on taxes because his proposal is extreme in various dimensions and not an offer designed for democrats to get to yes on it. the sort of over the top fearmongering that he does about public safety concerns related to immigration, we saw this in the virginia governor s race in november where the republicans made that a central theme. it didn t serve them well. they ended up losing by nine. you talked about the ms-13. let me talk about immigration. a lot of things i want to bring up. it was the most fascinating part of the speech. john, josh mentions dwelling on crime, dwelling on ms-13. what i thought i might be hearing there is a president who is worried about his base priming them for something they may see as a sellout. that is the legalization for
> this will be something that the government funding deadline, the latest one a few weeks away. this issue is going to intensify in the near future. john, maria, thanks to both of you. coming up, how democrats are reacting to the president s state of the union speech especially on the issue as we ve been talking about on the issue of immigration. jeff merkley is going to be here. the president said the the word russia only once in his speech last night and didn t talk about what happened in the 2016 election. i m jimmy, this is my definition of fresh since 1983.