today he em prased putin s remarks saying it s a nice honor to be complimented by a man highly respected in his own country. i have always felt russia and the united states should work well together by defeating terrorism and restoring world peace. joining me now, host of the majority report and ring of fire radio editor and chief of reason magazine. nice to have you both with us. nice to be here. just give me your initial thought s on endorsement and wam responses from donald trump. the endorsement is no surprise given putin has been materially supportive of parties like the national front in france. the sort of weird kind of left right wing. nationalist populist type of
a run for the white house. sources tell nbc news. will he or won t he buzz is everywhere. whatever entertainment value governor christie might bring to the race, and especially there will be tremendous entertainment value. the swimming pool looks better until you jump in. when somebody becomes very well-known, those sort of superficial things become not issues, but at first blush what do they say? you only get once chance to make a first impression. he very cleverly and adeptly is able to turn it into sort of a populist type of strength. he says like many americans, i struggle with my weight. i want to bring in our company, columbia professor lamont hill and strategist doug hie. good morning. good morning. all the columnists are writing about it. an anti-discrimination group is now getting in on it. is chris christie too big to be
the total package. that is not very much, and at some point and you hear this out of administration who has to public, at some point they have to stick to something. the administration, like the republicans, has its own internal party politics and can t continually be seen giving away the store to the republicans. we heard and i m sure you listened to what the senator sanders had to say, ezra. we heard his speech on the floor. we played that sound bite of what white house spokesman jay carney had to say about ç protecting the middle class. in your opinion, do you think the democrats can win and do so by being openly embracing this populist type of message? i don t think it gets hard to say this sort of thing, but i don t think this is a populist type of message. senator sanders and the white house are right in what they say, but is it truly such a populist message to see if we need to do deficit reduction that some amount of that sacrifice should be shared across the board?
trillion, so they wanted tax increases at a fifth the size of the total package. that is not very much, and at some point and you hear this out of administration who has beguning to public, at some point they have to stick to something. the administration, like the republicans, has its own internal party politics and can t continually be seen giving away the store to the republicans. we heard and i m sure you listened to what the senator sanders had to say, ezra. we heard his speech on the floor. we played that sound biteç of what white house spokesman jay carney had to say about protecting the middle class. in your opinion, do you think the democrats can win and do so by being openly embracing this populist type of message? i don t think it gets hard to say this sort of thing, but i don t think this is a populist type of message. senator sanders and the white house are right in what they say, but is it truly such a populist message to see if we need to do deficit reduction tha