unemployment sounds kind of tracti transactional. wayne dupree is a great friend of mine and what he said is absolutely correct, i don t know where this narrative came from of blacks having to vote democrat and if we don t vote democrat, we re race traitors or something like that. i agree with them both. the fact is what it is. it is the lowest black unemployment in history right now. if it was on another president s watch they would take credit for it as well. i see nothing wrong with this president taking credit for it. it s not disingenuous, it s a reality. let me tell you something. we have more jobs in certain areas right now than we have people to fill them. i know people there s a company that came to me and said i have 2,000 jobs to fill, can you help me fill them. so jobs are there. they re available to be had, more so than at any other time in recent american history. if i were the president, i would take credit for it too. you know, that s the way politics works, the p
coming to congress year after year. they re the most compelling people, the most compelling heart wrenching stories in america. we have a hard deadline. this guy, yes, he s capable of tearing kids from this country. he s capable of doing it. maybe george w. bush wouldn t have done it, obama wouldn t have done it, this guy is willing to do it? this is not about clever lawyering. if i cannot believe that he wants the wall that he promised that he used to distinguish himself from the field that he insisted every time with the mantra, who s going to pay for it. if you look at nafta negotiations and a tweet right after the meeting, he said, that s got to be a wall. that s confusing at a minimum. we re renegotiating that
experience in this. i assume he s never asked them. i can t imagine what their sentiments are when they hear the president say that. they served under a bunch of presidents. i m sure they like some better than others, differ with some more than others. i don t believe they can look back at george h.w., ronald reagan, george h.w. bush, bill clinton george bush, barack obama. none of them. they all behaved on this issue with dignity in an appropriate way. wouldn t have occurredtheir prer when asked a question about dealing with gold star parent t thes, you know? finally, give me a numeric chance when the next congress comes in the gop will have a majority but include nationalist bannonite numbers and the new senate could as well, meaning not a de facto governing majority. right. i think the civil war is real. i think the gop may not have a majority. it s a fluid situation, i think. but it s real. trump loves i think that s
obama wouldn t have said that about bush, right? right. graciousness costs you nothing. nothing. going back and litigating with what your predecessor might have done or not done? i don t think there s anything to litigate in this case, just to be clear. shows something so deep about trump. there s no sense that he is the president in a string of presidents who have to uphold certain standards and certain, you know, practices of decorum and it s not all about him, personally. that s as you say, that s the thing that was most strike bing about that answer. i get by comparison, we are institutionalists and you made an interesting point there about institutional history. where is the person in the white house? is it the gold-star father, general kelly, who is his day-to-day chief of staff, to tell him, here s what previous presidents did? well, john kelly was leon bob gates and leon panetta s military aide in the pentagon as jeremy bash. he has experience in this, having lost
they re great heroes. deepest sympathy, something nice, right. it s all about him, how difficult it is for him. he thinks he s being criticized a little bit with the four soldiers who died, he can t help but sort of say i m doing better than my predecessors. it s such a lack of understanding of what the presidency is about. what if president obama hadn t in every case made a phone call or if bush hadn t. obama wouldn t have said that about rush. right. graciousness costs you nothing. i don t think there s anything to litigate in this case. it just shows something so deep about trm. there s no sense that he is the president in a string of presidents who have to uphold certain standards and certain, you know, practices of decorum and it s want all about him personally. that s the thing that was most striking about that answer. i guess by comparison we are