genius of donald trump. he s playing to his base, but he s also playing to the basis instincts of american political culture. where is the lincolnian appeal to our better nature? these are the worst demons of our souls. and to demonize women of color as not american, is to not only give a redux, but to add sexism to the stew. he gets two for the price of one. he s dissing women, dissing women of color. he s demoralizing an entire community of people who find in them adequate representation for democracy. and to disagree with one s fellow is not a bad thing. to disagree with one s fellow human being is not a bad thing. but to demonize them as unworthy of citizenship is unpatriotism as one might imagine. i always learn from you.
here, this neither category. i draw this long line across the screen. and basically these were the people who determined the election. and trump won among those who they departmeidn t hold a favor view of clinton. are we going to maybe get a redux of 2020 where the democrats nominate someone unpopular because they think we can beat trump no matter what was his net approval rating is all the way down here. but, in fact, you get this whole group of people who have to decide who is the lesser of two evils and that s a situation i m not sure democrats want to get themselves into because look at this. if we go back since 1956 and we were basically figuring out what s the best way to predict what the final outcome is going to be when an incumbent is running. do we just look at their net approval or take into account the net favorability of the incumbent as well as the challenger and what we see here, and this is key, is this when we
exist. we saw it with the whole charade in the midterm of people the caravan coming to the border, and this is that redux. i think we have to be careful not to allow donald trump too much public air times for these kind of political infomercials. interesting. why do you say that? i had that conversation with chris at the top of the 10:00 hour, and he said you shouldn t limit the exposure to this president. which i agree with in the sense not limiting but shouldn t news organizations be more strategic yes. yes. thousands of lives we haven t had a president if abc, cbs, and all a part of journalism and washington post is talking about thousands of lies from a president, how can you have a president come on lying to the american people without an instant fact check or rebuttal. and i m not convinced the networks are going to want to lose 15, 20, 30 minutes to their programming because they ve got a state of the union coming in just a couple of weeks which they ve given their
well, and you re supposed to use this to address the people, don, when it s a crisis. this is not the cuban missile crisis. this is not 9/11. this is just politics. and trump is using it as a crisis situation, threatening a national emergency that doesn t exist. we saw it with the whole charade in the midterm of people the caravan coming to the border, and this is that redux. i think we have to be careful not to allow donald trump too much public air times for these kind of political infomercials. interesting. why do you say that? i had that conversation with chris at the top of the 10:00 hour, and he said you shouldn t limit the exposure to this president. which i agree with in the sense not limiting but shouldn t news organizations be more strategic yes. yes. thousands of lives we haven t had a president if abc, cbs, and all a part of journalism and washington post is talking about thousands of
january, he is in a tough spot politically with nancy pelosi. she has made it clear, i think, that the border wall is a nonstarter. i think chuck schumer and nancy pelosi have been pretty strong on this. i don t think that they re going to go for this messaging redux with the fence and the slats that the president tweeted out. and so where does it put him if this continues on? on the other hand, he has conservatives breathing down his neck about this wall. you have folks like on the right like ann coulter and laura engram saying remember your promises, mr. president. you promised this wall was going to get done. and as you, wolf, have pointed out all week, mexico was supposed to pay for it. well, they re not suppospayi it. they both say they re not paying for it. there is a dell gaths egation u hill. vice president mike pence, mick mulvaney, acting white house chief of staff, jared kushner, senior adviser to the president. they re talking. they re making statements, but