liberties with respect to traditional family lifestyles, with respect to god, our creator, whether it s gender inequality, politically correct, and to fake news. this is the guy the president is palling around with. you heard him there, talking about traditional family lifestyles and gender ideologies. he s also known for saying, this was in 2013, that he would rather have a son who s an addict than a son who is gay, and saying he was quote proud to be homophobic. you also heard him there railing against politically correct attitudes and against news he doesn t like. but none of that dimmed president trump s enthusiasm for the man known as a trump of the tropics. you know how the president loves a good nickname? what he doesn t love, anybody who crosses him. but attacks on his perceived enemies, like john mccain, are the shiny objects designed to
but they did it very, very differently. what obama did is well, first, you start with george w. bush bailing out banks in the hoover way. strict cronyism, you know. like they were they were very serious about this crony all those goldman sachs guys bailing one another out, this kind of thing, handing out money to executives, all those bonuses, all that sort of thing. all of that had happened in the hoover days. but obama did something very different than roosevelt. obama accepted that, brought in timothy geithner to run his bailout program. roosevelt, by contrast, you know, completely rejected the hoover approach. you know, the open-handed bailout. in fact, he attacked hoover for it on the campaign trail. one of the ways in which he that s how he won. yes, right. but here s the thing. in our time, who s out there railing his bailouts? who screaming in the park? we all know the answer to that. it s not it s not liberals like you and me. i mean, i wish i were, you know.
differently. what obama did is well, first, you start with george w. bush bailing out banks in the hoover way. strict cronyism, you know. like they were they were very serious about this crony all those goldman sachs guys bailing one another out, this kind of thing, handing out money to executives, all those bonuses, all that sort of thing. all of that had happened in the hoover days. but obama did something very different than roosevelt. obama accepted that, brought in timothy geithner to run his bailout program. roosevelt, by contrast, you know, completely rejected the hoover approach. you know, the open-handed bailout. in fact, he attacked hoover for it on the campaign trail. one of the ways in which he that s how he won. yes, right. but here s the thing. in our time, who s out there railing his bailouts? who screaming in the park? we all know the answer to that. it s not it s not liberals like you and me. i mean, i wish i were, you know. i wish i were. isn t occ
employees get health care, if they want to say to them, you know what? we re actually going to take that away, we don t think that s such an idea. i d say make my day, i m ready for that fight. every member of congress ought to be willing to have that debate as well. nbc s mike viqueira joins us this morning from the white house. good morning. you heard axlerod right there saying if they seem optimistic. the question is, is this more of a game face or do they have the numbers? because this is a numbers game. right, they don t have the numbers. jim clyburn is the democratic whip in the house of representatives. he comes from south carolina and he told nbc s tom brokaw this morning on meet the press that we don t have the numbers yet, speaking of house democrats. david axlerod there railing against republicans. the trouble for democrats and president obama, as they start to twist arms heading into this climactic week, lynn, is that they do not have one single republican vote so the