normally you might be looking at the geopolitical situation in a region and using analysts with expertise in that region, and that s what they re used to. to bring this into an area of the virus, science, medicine, you need a different kind of background expertise, so that s what i think they re kind of trying to bring in and focus it more. like i said, china has been promoting a disinformation narrative that the virus originated in the u.s., as a u.s. government weapon, which has echoes of what the soviet union did in the 1980s with the aids virus, highly successful disinformation campaign and damaging to our long-term public health efforts because where the disinformation took hold, for example, in africa, where whe were trying to combat aids, people didn t trust the u.s. government. so we want to combat that. the other thing that s unusual, jessica, the fact this is being
hated, is coming into this thing with a 3 million vote lead. historically speaking, the president never gains and she didn t have passion. didn t have passion, people didn t trust her or like her. rather than chasing swing voters, who again i think are femoral from that standpoint, why don t you focus on the people who already turned out? why not do something about voter protection or do something about black and latino voters who can t vote in georgia? that s a smarter move for democrats. i think that s all in the same. that s the genius. everybody is feeling that rage. so, whether you re somebody who feels you re not going to be able to vote the way you re supposed to, if you re somebody who feels your health care will be taken away or you re afraid to take your kid to a mall that s not black, that s not white, that s not muslim. that s who we are and that s where you transcend that stuff. we have to go to the break. still ahead, don t take this the wrong way, guys, this
people didn t trust his judgment and when he became prime minister largely because of the things he got right primarily, of course, a warning about adolf hitler and the nazis. there were people who didn t trust him. it was fascinating how you explained a political misstep gave him the space he needed to grow into prime minister material. you said that chamberlain thought it would keep winston churchill too busy. th nothing happened on the
truth or will we accept when public officials use information as an instrument. and we ve been through this before. the late jeffrey bell called it the politics of bifurcation referring to the clinton scandals. we saw the same thing. while people didn t trust president trump after the lewinsky scandal, his approval rating continued to be high because of conditions on the ground. so i think if we look broadly, the economy, voters like peace makers and trump is preparing for the summit with kim jung-un, i think trump s message on manufacturing and trade is strengthening his base, is getting people on the not so much the republican voters, but those kind of obama voters who switched for trump, all of a sudden they are saying that is why i voted for him, to bring our factories back. so in the political sense i think he is okay. voters already believe that all politicians are liars. and so you re saying trump is a liar?
sort of false sense of security i think a lot of people achieved around nuclear weapons at the end of the cold war because people felt like they ve been taken off hair trigger alert. and i envision it will be a much more front of mind political issue in the years to come. yeah. i think if you remember in the 1980s, there was another spate of nuclear terror both on the ground with the nuclear freeze movement and in popular culture with the day after and war games and this burst of nuclear armageddon movies the way there were in the 60s with dr. strangelove and on the beach. and that s because people didn t trust ronald reagan with the button or he was joking with bombing russia in five minutes or whatever it was. and it turned out at reykjavik ronald reagan almost gave away the store. okay, fine, we ll get rid of all of them, to mikhail gorbachev. whenever you have an unlikely