your view. do you have another fall back? there is a rat infestation in congress. the rats are coming up from the catacombs and scurrying around all over congress. i m so concerned of this, ari, that i ve written this book, how the rats reformed the congress in order to stand up for the rats. when is this one this is like mouse, right? that was a cartoon series. designed to make yourself laugh seriously enough to take back congress for the people. people who may not have followed your career wonder has ralph nader written a book about everything. new york cio, i have not wrik about inner mongolia. bob, what else is on your list? my second one is, back to the train, clearly i don t want a car, right? own a car, you don t own a suit. neither do you, ari. imagine you re ari melber, you re on a flight, on amtrak, you arrive at your destination.
pulitzer prize winner, gene robinson. a little pulitzer humor. i don t have one. you both do. your thoughts when you listen to doris fine history and you as our current events person and how does this apply today? well, first of all, i look forward to reading doris new book and, hi, doris and, second, you know, you talked about you talked about how presidents grow in office and one way they grow is that they learn new facts. they ingest information and process information and learn things and grow. and president trump seems to be, i think, uniquely impervious to information, to new information. he doesn t seem to grow in that way. and i wondered if doris, have we had a president before now who seemed to be so impervious to new facts and who might that be? well, i don t know.
you were nothing if not consistent. what is new, though, that you want to get across in the book? that the democratic party can t defend the country against the worst republican party in history. i mean, this is a party, republican party on the record voting against children, voting against women, voting against clean air, voting against clean water, if you can t landslide that kind of party, all the way down to the city council from congress to city council, you better look in the mirror and the democratic party better look in the mirror. we re about a month away from the election and they talk about a blue wave. you got to have wind to have blue wave. the wind comes from the people. believing that you stand for something. they haven t answered the question what does the democratic party stand for and i think if they make a big issue out of raising the minimum wage and they should get in front of the capitol steps all the democrats led by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and said, w
way. he can t bear looking weak which is what i wrote in the book. at the time when i was writing that he was abruptly he abruptly stopped one of his speeches in raleigh, north carolina because protesters interrupted so much it made hit hard. i reported that. he got furious and boycotted nbc news because he thought it made him look weak. if a protester got under his skin he doesn t look in controls, he s not a strong person. it s the same way that he i think he views dictators. he s not a baby. he understands what they do. he gets it. the world is a dark and dangerous place, it s a mean place. he said that over and over again. you mentioned him attacking people. let s show this. we have a bunch of babies running our country, folks. we have a bunch of losers. they are losers, they are babies. what the hell did he think? he s like a baby. and then he apologized like a little baby. like a disgusting little weak pathetic baby.