early on in trump s presidency it seemed like people who tried to emulate him weren t really successful at it. roy moore was one of those examples. ed gillespie s doomed gubernatorial bid in virginia was another example in which he defended the confederacy even after everything that happened in charlottesville. so people said the trump template didn t really work for other people, and now i think they re beginning to question those assumption is because they have seen what happened with brian kemp in georgia and with desantis in florida. it seems that you can actually mimic his outrageousness, mimic his egregious racism, mimic him playing to the worst possible aspects of human character and be successful at it. and i think that s exactly what we re seeing in mississippi. you re somebody who has taught the history of public lynchings. i thought that comment, the opinion that was written by that journalist was very thoughtful, the one who said that when he
i ve been at these rallies. he often uses this outrageousness to distract attention from narratives he can t control. i would argue that one of those stories has been for him the suspected murder of jamal khashoggi. but then to make comments about body slamming a reporter, doesn t it only draw more attention to that? the president doesn t care. i mean, the president is very tactical. he s going to say what he says when he says it because he s going to get a response from the audience, but i mean, how smart is greg anyway, he couldn t find his words to answer ben s questions. instead he has to resort to physical violence. i m reminded of my wife and her preschoolers. we have to say, no, we don t hit the other children, we use our words, and here you have a congressman who couldn t find any words because he s not smart enough to come up with them. let s look at it as a strategy, rick. as a strategy, is it smart? because there are a lot of folks who aren t convinced that these
on which the date would appear on the document like a gremlin in the system. it s just, it s outrageous what they re doing. the only thing, the only thing besides the outrageousness of the whole thing just the quality of it because all of it is so transparent that we have to take it seriously, we need to take it seriously. chi the notion that this is unprecedented and it almost seems like they re going through the motions now trying to come up with cover stories because no way to come up with cover stories because what they re doing is so obvious and the president is not trying any more. he s just telling the truth about it. you covered the white house. anything specifically that pushed the president over the edge this time? we showed the tweet from john brennan talking about the omarosa dog tweet and, obviously, it s been a long
indictment of a russian national who was she tried to infiltrate american organizations to try to certainly we are looking at that. but just to clarify, know there was massive media hysteria yesterday over confusion between that individual and a white house staffer which i think shows, frankly, the outrageousness and the just desire to find the negative in everything that this president does just because somebody was simply red-headed. they were accused of being some sort of spy for russia. i think that this has gotten totally out of control. you guys need to take a little bit of a step back, slow down and quit going after the trump administration on every single thing that he had no response? i said we are looking at it. but this is a lengthy process. we re going through it. however, i do have a response to the fact that simply because somebody has the same hair color they were accused of being a
on the right and try to influence american politics? certainly we re looking at that. just to clarify, there was massive media hysteria yesterday over confusion between that individual and a white house staffer which i think shows frankly the outrageousness and the just desire to find the negative in everything that this president does just because somebody was red-headed, they were accused of being some sort of spy for russia. i think this has gotten totally out of control. you have to step back, slow down and quit going after the trump administration on every single thing you have no response i said we re looking at it. this is a lengthy process. we re going through it. however, i do have a response that simply because somebody had the same hair color, they were accused of being a russian spy by a lot of people in this