work. it s how they look, and that s a very damaging message for young girls. and that s why you hear people like, for instance, my sister, won t let her daughters watch donald trump on tv, because she doesn t know what they re going to hear. and she doesn t want them to judge themselves just on this 1 to 10 attractiveness scale. and bhmaria, sometimes we overelevate what the presidency is. they can t do everything that people think they can wave a magic wand without congress, which is the first branch of government. one thing presidents do is set the tone. in the obama era, the obamas kind of set the tone for what the country believes itself to be. they re like our national avatar. donald trump sort of vulgarity of him, what does that do to our sort of national sense of self? so, you know, i ve been thinking about what was going on when i was 6 years old, and george wallace was running for president, and i remember talking to my best friend who is jewish about where we were goin
who say we should get them out tomorrow. that cannot happen. except, maria, that the pieces we put up earlier of donald trump s idea, build a wall and catch and release, meaning people are released into the community. his new deportation task force which would presumably go door to door and question families as to the immigration status of people living in the household, ending sanctuary cities, penalizing cities who don t throw out undocumented migrants and whatever extreme vetting is, meaning no more muslims get to come in the country. that would have to go through congress. trump said the american taxpayer is going to pay for the wall and somehow compel mexico to reimburse us. it s not going to go through a hostile congress. if donald trump wins, he s going to have a sew list to us republican congress that s going to know his voters are their voters and if they want to get re-elected they re going to do whatever he says. this is the opposite of what
choice governors in the country with the most extreme abortion bill that he signed into law. so, look, donald trump has been so cavalier in the way he s talked about a woman s right to choose, the way he talked about it in the debate the other night. clearly he doesn t believe women have the right to make decisions, their own health care decisions and i think women should be concerned about what he would do as president and how he views our agency in all of this. and maria, i thought it was really important for lawrence to set up the limits of what a trump president could actually accomplish. you know, he is sort of pulling the wool over a lot of his supporters eyes. he would owe the supreme court nominations he promised. there is no way to get around that. the decision would be made by republicans in congress who they themselves have to answer to the far right. so we re talking about the overturning of roe and the empowering of mike pence who made women in indiana have funerals if
mare wrote in the new yorker , he was advised not to do this. and he completely ignored that and went forward with this. so it s unfortunate, and something that hopefully, you know, when all the dust settles and the election has moved on next year, congress really needs to take a look at the fbi director s behavior in this case, starting this summer and especially what he did yesterday. laurence tribe, constitutional law expert, tweeted out yesterday two tweets. one said comey s e-mail to his agents, trying to explain himself to his own agents, made clear that the e-mails to be investigated may have no significance at all and the second one, covering one s own back side is understandable. doing so by making voters think the candidate for president might well be indicted is inexcusable. last question to you on this, matthew. james comey has steadfastly refused to even say whether or not the fbi is looking into allegations that aides and former aides to the republican
give, you know, his opinion on certain things going way beyond the standard of what s done. and then going before congress and testifying and again going way beyond the standard of just saying the investigation is concluded. he gave put himself in a situation where he felt that, you know, he had to correct the record once the record was out there. this was i m hearing from inside the fbi. this was a final straw. people are furious. they feel not that comey has been politicizing the situation. but that the bureau, bause of comey s missteps, is now going to be perceived as political. and, you know, agents are very, very protective of the reputation of the fbi. and i have never heard so much anger people saying the director is incompetent.