dereliction of duty and it was flagrantly so and i m not letting him get a pass on that. i m just not. final quick subject off the chart a little bit because it s not sports and it s not politics per se. it s an act of vandalism. i think of stephen a. as a philly guy. what do you do with a city-employed lawyer who was not doing the spray painting but was in the company of a guy who spray paints a building f trump? i think you definitely suspend him. there has to be some repercussions for such an irresponsible act. would i con template firing him, yes. i m not sure i would. i want to hear what his explanation would be in the matter. but perceptions sometimes usurp reality. any juvenile can go out there and vandalize and record vandalism giving the okay for it. it doesn t make it right. when you re educated and supposed to have some degree of not only intellect but a core
the number one tool that we have in america to provoke change is our power to vote. it s something that we fought for. it s something that was exacted to us in 1964/1965. how in god s name can you sit up there and justify not voting? there s no excuse for it whatsoever. i understand there s a lack of understanding. there s youth that we re talking about here. the player s association, it would be nice to see them get themselves involved, speaking up on his behalf in some accord, but the bottom line it was a dereliction of duty and it was flagrantly so and i m not letting him get a pass on that. i m just not. final quick subject off the chart a little bit because it s not sports and it s not politics per se. it s an act of vandalism. i think of stephen a. as a philly guy. what do you do with a city-employed lawyer who was not doing the spray painting but was in the company of a guy who spray paints a building f trump? i think you definitely suspend him. there has to be some
social spending, on how you reform social security, conservatives don t like to acknowledge this, but one of the things reagan did was at one point brought the capital gains tax up to the same level as ordinary income. trump has a wholly different terrain, not just both houses of congress but a republican party so much more homogenous, so much more solidly conservative and so much really committed to fundamental changes in everything from tax structure to social policy that i think the potential is there for trump to oversee the kind of change we haven t seen in decades and decades. to your point, there were so many republican moderates in the senate, they had their own gathering and called it the wednesday lunch club. so what areas do you think he s about to be a president of lasting consequence? the most obvious is the supreme court. david souter, george h.w. bush s
how quickly, we don t know. i think you ll see big rollbacks in obama s approach to environmental regulations, an we re not just talking about trump undoing obama. you talk about the epa, that was put into power by richard nixon. this is what i mean by the potential reach of trump, given how much the republican party has moved right, and to the extend they now control all of the branchs of government. that sy think the potential is there for huge change. whether you like it or are appalled by it. half of the country is smiling at hearing jeff greenfield, the other half is breu bristling. thank you. thank you, michael. if kaepernick didn t vote then his protests against racial