pat buchanon was an ally, he had that isolationist, america first foreign policy, i noticed this today, pat buchanan basically breaking with donald trump because of this issue of iran. he does not like at all the tone that trump is taking, the actions he s taking on iran as president. are you getting a sense, a clearer sense now of the kind of foreign policy president trump is using? i think he s being tested. you get a new test in there. the narrative was that the iranian nuclear deal, this was a bad deal. we can t trust iran. he s in many ways talking to his base on this. on the other hand, substantively, this isn t different from the obama administration is heading. i m not sure that off different conclusion here. he s talking to a different base. kasie hunt, we mentioned applause coming from congressional republicans. we saw this as well earlier in the week when flynn put that statement out there saying hey, iran is on notice right now. last week the administration was
modern history and i think there will be plenty of time to make staff decisions and for him to articulate why he s chosen different people to carry out various roles and implement his vision. so i don t want to get the cart before the horse. we ll let mr. trump make those decisions as to who he will ask to serve in his administration at an appropriate time. sean, at the outset of the program, i said, he s my president. i am of the opinion and i would have said the same thing if it were hillary clinton that he s deserving o f a fresh start. do you think he has an obligation to be conciliatory? i ask that question because the likes of pat buchanon and rush limbaugh say, hey, we won, we ve got both houses, and you know, let s go full on now with our agenda. there s no need to be looking leftward as we advance. what do you say? i think tone matters. and i think mr. trump struck
election toward the end, we re not getting any change. we re getting the same people who brought us the wars, open borders, exported american manufacturing, who gave away all those jobs, who are responsible for the arresting of the wages of wages of working americans. do you think all the folks in middle america are enranged and turns out at trump rallies bringing him to a point not only at one point even but on the verge of victory despite the worst in both savage beating i ve ever seen by the media against a candidate. you think all that is some kind of accident, michael? that beating has been administered to donald trump with his own words and actions. if women hadn t come out and said he sexually assaulted them, there would be nothing on that score for us to be reporting. come on, pat. why are you running? you guys spent all this time figuring out why trump should not have said that. you asked miss usa to spend her time at burger king, at the same
75% of the republican vote. a vast majority of the country, 75% said we would like dramatic change in washington and we ll wind up with no change in washington if the election goes the way it s going. now, you tell me that s not a rigged system. pat, it s not a rigged system. i mean, debbie wasserman-schultz may have had her thumb on the scale relative to the dnc but i don t think she affected the outcome of the election. people who went and cast their ballot. you re giving too much credence to her ability as the head of the dnc to play favorites and influence the outcome. let me tell you. the country wants change and it s not getting it. one of the major reasons is the media. the 19th century marks that power is controlled of the means of production. arthur said power is the control of the means of communication. the left and the establishment control 85% of the communications in the united states. they have overwhelmingly weighed
shorter period of time would obviously be better. maybe last week or something but still, we shouldn t be focused entirely on turnout but focused on having an informed electorate and an election really about the importance of the democratic process and the civic nature of that. james houghman, thank you for being here. it s my pleasure. thank you. what do you think? tweet me @smerconish and i ll read the best later in the program. still to come, what donald trump wouldn t say, he set off a fire storm in both parties. pat buchanon said it s because trump scares the establishment. and inciteful and embarrassing secrets about how politics operates but is there a longer term cost to privacy and democracy?