the and what a hysteria back in that 1975 period. right. so how do you breakthrough? how do you do what jimmy carter was able to do? how do you do what obama was able to do and that is shock washington, d.c., in a political class? i think the most important thing to do right now is to stay calm and get out and talk to people. talk about the things that we did during the time i was in the senate and also in other periods. what did you do? we led the pivot to asia. we spent a lot of time on foreign policy issues. we talked about the economic fairness issues from the very beginning. i led criminal justice reforms. it s a very hot topic now. i started talking about this when i was running for the senate and in virginia, as you might imagine, people are telling me we were committing political suicide talking about our broken criminal justice system. we brought a constituent groups from all across the political spectrum to the table, brought that issue out of the shadows
can you cast a big vote? when you think your country is going down the tubes, you don t want incremental change. here comes this bright peacock, you know, with very brightly colored feathers, at the end though i think what his strength is his weakness. because if donald trump goes wild and blows a real estate deal, he loses dural country club or the postffice building. but if he blows our relationship with the soviet union, that s world war iii. does he have that stability and character? we don t know yet. he s not a republican. he s not a conservative. he s kind of a what we know about him is he s a guy that is hungry for power in business. and now it seems in politics, too. he wants more power in washington to deport 11 million people and their children and take away their american citizenship. he kind of likes single payer. this doesn t sound so good. if that s the case, why can t
here? and then when you answered, as a skeptic, previous skeptic, i said yeah, i think i did. i was wrong. it happens. you know, rarely, but i maybe rarely for you but not rarely for me. unless i m home. i thought trump would be contained. you were talking about the 25%. other people said he would collapse. i said, no, that s not going anywhere. the republican party is angry. we re angry about washington. i thought the fire would burn but burn there. what started as an anti-washington campaign has a second stage. and that is that we actually like him campaign. so now we re seeing the beginnings of that. how far it goes, don t know. yeah. so what should the republican party think? a republican party that looks awfully old and awfully out of touch every time donald trump gets on stage. well, jeremy, you were saying that why cast a small vote when
camels on the beach, an eight ball. why not? donny? i could live my whole life and never do that and be just absolutely better off. oh, god. the meantal image is not good. if you re walking on the beach in ab why you dabi. joe and i in our trunks. oh, come on! all right. is that what you call swimsuits in the hamptons? trunks? yeah. eugene robinson is still us with, thank god. alex castellanos is with us as well with great facial expressions. donny deutsche is here. and from washington, moderator of meet the press, chuck todd, editor of the fix at the washington post chris alizza is here as well. we have a lot to talk b let s talk about what happens in a
descriptive. at least there was a guy who is punching in there. by the way, punching back to the press. answer your question. i m sorry, i think it never hurts you to punch at the press, right? we re the most hated people in america. no comment. i thought he looked kind of cranky and irritable and like he got up on the wrong side of the bed. maybe if you think that helps him, maybe that helps him. i didn t think it did. i think it helps him anything that makes him look less like a politician and more like a person that he is at his core, i think that helps him. hillary clinton was quick to wa weigh into the debate. she sweeted how about babies or children or american citizens? and florida senator marco rubio was himself what a beautiful american citizen you are.