President trump, quote, he is no order con man. He is way above average in the american political system is his easiest mark ever. Guest yeah. This was that was early the campaign. I think that was in march of 2016. So it was just around the time when he was sewing up the republican nomination and the purpose of that article is this is a come. Com compilation of articles to explain the trump phenomenon for people who were having to take it serious come to grip watches the fact this was happening. So i took kind of a different approach to trump and tried to really listen to what his supporters were saying and try to focus on what he was doing, and my take on him is that he was a Brilliant Media manipulator and that he was perfectly suited to play on all the weaknesses of the american political media, ask that turned out to be truism was i had stucks to my guns on the piece. Thought he would be president and then later on i didnt believe that. Host well, the dave after the election you w
Recent book insane clown met iab in depth, your most recent book insane clown president dispatches from the 2016 circus. You write about donald trump, quote, no ordinary conman, he is way above average, the american political system is his easiest mark ever. That was early in the campaign. That was in march 2016. It was around the time he was sewing up the republican nomination and the purpose of that article, this is a compilation of articles to try to explain the trump phenomenon to people who were for the first time having to take it seriously and come to grips that this was happening. I took a different approach to trump and tried to listen to what his supporters were saying and focus on what he was doing. My take on him that he was a Brilliant Media manipulator who was perfectly suited to play on the weaknesses of the american political media and that turned out to be true. I wish i had stuck to my guns. Later on in the book i didnt believe he would be president. Host the day afte
On a good trajectory, so they can look past individual pieces of data to move forward. Thats broadly a better approach than just responding to every bump and wiggle in the data. I got news this mess and i will get us out of it says uk Prime Minister theresa may as she prepares to meet dup leader Arlene Foster in a bid to secure her parliamentary majority good morning it is tuesday, lets have a look at the stoxx 600 this morning. We are broadly higher to the tune of half of a percent. Merely shrugging off some of the renewed declines in tech stocks. All sectors in the green apart from telecoms. Yesterday the stoxx 600 European Equity market was down by 1 tech was the drag, pretty much mirroring what happened on the nasdaq most of the sectors are in the green. And youll see that all of them are now in the green technology, banks and real estate leading tech stocks up by 1. 2 yesterday we saw some apple suppliers falling and food and beverages telecoms, some of the relative underperformer
All but four states start their tomorrow. D lawmakers in about 20 of those states have yet to finalize a budget. Maines governor is threatening a shutdown for the First Time Since 1991. Its the 11th hour negotiations for negotiatigauche for legislations and nowhere are the financial pressures greater than in illinois. Which has faced its own twoyear budget stalemate and is now on the verge of having its credit downgraded to junk, but there is some movement today. Today, the house gave initial approval to a spending plan. Leslie picker reports from chicago. If you want to better understand the economic prices in illinois, look no further thap the 16 stories government building known as the jean r. Thompson center in downtown chicago. Everyone agrees it could be sold. Its worth about 200 million, money that could be used to help the state, which is broke, but the democrat emanuel and Bruce Browner couldnt find a way. The governor announ thats okay. With all these bells and whistles. I sa
And you dont see any in fox news, thats fine even though i clearly regular i will go after the Democratic Party in my work and ive never heard once fox news take on a conservative on that station. You know, i try to look at everybody and i disagree with people, you know, of my own political character all of the time because i think thats healthy. Its not a business for me. I dont do this to try to scare liberals into tuning into my articles but i can make money, this is about trying to call things as i see them and thats not what fox news does, i think your views i couldnt disagree with them more strongly and i feel sorry for you that you feel that way. Host carolyn in spear fish, south dakota, this is an email. How much blame should block belong to New York Times and Washington Post that voters went the other way in response . Guest i dont know about signaling the two publications but i do think that that was a phenomena that was true. When we, you know, i talked about this in my book