it s been interesting while his cabinet has been very monolithic, it s been almost all white males we ve seen appointed so far. the fact you re beginning to hear about tulsi gabbard, other people, be interesting to see if he takes that forward. i think december is a warmup. i think january is where it gets interesting. you talk about the wall, talk about obamacare, but the real fight starts with the supreme court, right? we got a nomination waiting there. i think it will be interest to see when he decides to fire that bullet, does he wait for his state of the union address, his very first or do it even sooner? he can do it as soon as now if he wanted to tell us where he s leaning. peter, again, why the video, why not the press conference? ? earl, how do you think trump is handling his image right now? you know, it s e pekted. why hold a press conference and get asked tough questions when you cab put this out there. he s been very effective at this. the substance is one thing we nee
a heck of a lot of diversity. by a heck of a lot, i mean any. right, right. first of all, let me jump in on this, kayleigh s got it not just because she s from florida as i am, there s zero percent chance that he didn t reward his most loyal lieutenant who is rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani was the only one who would come on screen when he was at his lowest point. i think this is all for show. why hasn t he done it yet, though? he s stringing him along. well, exactly what s happening here, which is we re talking about magnanimity which is not just a long word that peter introduce ed but i didn t make it up. a real olive branch. he wouldn t be the first to do it. i think he yearly is siding on side of ronald reagan the way ronald reagan approached it when he came in in 1980, 1981. he reached out to hillary clinton. that s not what s going to
of charles lindbergh, ran a racist birther campaign against barack obama. yes, he should denounce these things. we should also be honest about the fact these thing, these people existed before but they re enormously emboldened but they feel like they have a friend in the white house and they are not entirely wrong in that feeling. wait, you re saying they have a friend in the white house? they believe they have watched what donald trump has done, they have watched he go again and again after vulnerable religious and racial minorities and they have taken aid and comfort from that and that s also part of the reason we now see this kind of wave of hate crimes across the country. i m not saying donald trump agrees with these people. i am saying that he has done specific things that have made it much easier for them to operate. matt lewis, is it donald trump s fault? is donald trump a friend of the alt right? well, i think peter s right that donald trump s candidacy has given them
they re isolationists. they re not for free trade and they re not pro-life. they actually have this nichial world view that is the opposite of my view of conservatism. i also agree with peter, you can t exactly blame donald trump. what he should do is say what ronald reagan said in 1984, many people are welcome in our house but not the bigots. he needs to call them out. he needs to do more in this transition wait, i would say one more quick thing. there were 200 people in that room. maybe 300. so it s horrible. i denounce them. but a couple hundred people, you know, this isn t exactly 300 people in the reagan building which is a few blocks from the white house. right. to some people that might seem like a lot. celebrating on the bridge in north carolina the day after election day. charles? i think we re just sanitizing it s all fine to say that donald trump is a president-elect, but let s not sanitize what he did. as peter said very clearly, he used dog whistles,
stage. that person is rudy giuliani. i agree with newt gingrich. you want someone who believes in your vision of the world. donald trump had rudy giuliani in his column, he believes in the way donald trump views the world, believes in his vision. mitt romney clearly does not. i want to put myself firmly in the rudy column. matt lewis, people are wondering is donald trump messing with these guys? i mean, seriously, rjs udy giuliani, no one spoke out more strongly for donald trump during the campaign. if he rewards loyalty like people say he does, why isn t it rudy? no one spoke out more forcefully against him during the campaign than mitt romney. is this donald trump stringing him along so he can ultimately reject him. that s one theory, he brings people to sort of bow to him at trump tower, toying with them. i hope that s not what s happening. i really think that peter and kayleigh both were hitting on interesting and plausible theory, a microcosm of a really interesting idea which