tamara sat down with hillary clinton to discuss her memoir in an interview out today. more on that in a moment. steve, the better press secretaries have preprepared wording that you can follow their eyes and glance down at it and that was clearly the case today. clearly they were not going to take the high road and are still kind of relitigating the election as is hillary clinton. and we ll see if donald trump s twitter feed has more to say about the book in the days to come. of course, if he does, the more donald trump says, certainly the more he ll be helping her sell the books. i think we ll just be sort of back into that hadn t left it at all i guess, but back into that polarized atmosphere of 2016. i think, look, the reality here is it s unusual for a defeated presidential candidate to be writing a book like this so close to the election, but everything is unusual right now. about american politics. unusual for the president to be talking about his opponent this month eight, n
might imagine about donald trump. in today s white house press briefing, sarah huckabee-sanders responded to clinton s book and a question about whether the president would read it himself. will the president be reading hillary clinton s book and what does he think about the excerpts that have gotten out so far? whether or not he s going to read hillary clinton s book i am not sure, but i would think that he s pretty well-versed on what happened. and i think it s pretty clear to all of america. i think it s sad that after hillary clinton ran one of the most negative campaigns in history and lost and the last chapter of her public life is going to be now defined by propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks, and i think that that s a sad way for her to continue. steve kornacki and tamara keith remain with us. tamara sat down with hillary clinton to discuss her memoir in an interview out today. more on that in a moment. steve, the better press secretaries have pre-prepa
many of these are the moderates and it happens cycle after cycle. the moderates were the democrats that dropped out, too. and that ultimately ended up losing in 2010. and and it leads to this increasingly polarized congress where people are more concerned about primaries than they are about the general election. and that basically just leads to more of the conflict that, you know, voters left and right will say, we just want congress to do stuff. we want them to get things done, but the polarization makes that harder. tamara, a follow-up, does any of this faze donald trump? is he after dinner tonight in the white house up worrying about this or as a noninstitutionalist, is he going to take it as it comes? you know, he made that deal with the democrats and there s a lot of hand wringing about what it means but one thing it did was he he got something to happen. quickly. which is an indication that he is he s somebody who just
sort of at the root of all this. when you think back to the primaries t primaries last year, donald trump wasn t endorsed by a republican member of congress until after he won the new hampshire primary. absolutely unheard of for a nominee in either party to have that complete lack of support from capitol hill and then go crickets. out there and win the nomination. there s this element here, charlie dent is certainly one of those guys who wouldn t even endorse donald trump last year in the election. you have this element where all these members of congress, even know it s a president of their party on paper, don t really feel thaiey re paurrt of this presidency. don t feel invested in a normal way. tamara, we had chris hayes on the broadcast a couple times who will go down in history, the modern era, as kind of the last republican moderate from new england in the house before everything changed. it s the loss of moderates that bothers people a lot. why is that? it s what hap
rolling from crisis to crisis. fiscal cliffs and debt ceiling fights and continuing resoluti n resolutions every few months and it s just not a very fun place to be. add to that the basically constant fund-raising that a member of congress has to do and, you know, they get a republican president. it s a republican congress. and it hasn t vastly improved. you know, things haven t been sailing through. and so if the frustration level is there and they cab see wrin writing on the wall, why stick it out? to tamara s point, charlie dent was on with chris matthews this weekend, talking to his family every cycle about how the job was no fun, you have no choice but to believe them. bannon threatening to use the word at the moment, primary incumbent republicans which is crazy. but that s the dynamic that s