that i guess trump brings up but not directly to trump himself. he s not going to necessarily comment on a particular thing trump says or does. but he s going to comment on the spirit of what trump is doing. you ve seen that in his as and speeches and rhetoric. but again i marched near him when he was at the florida a&m homecoming parade a few weeks ago and not one person on the side was yelling stop trump, but they were asking, hey, i need a job, i need to make sure i have health care, i have a brother in jail who is you know, what kind of future is he going to have? i need to know these very practical things that real people deal with. and i think this definition of kitchen table issues is different in the trump era. we re not worried about what necessarily he s saying every day, but we re worried about what he s embodying and how that is translating into policy. let s listen to what beto
donald trump, they are talking about the things you mentioned before, the substantive issues. they re basically saying you can t deal with this lunatic. what you can do is he s a liar and the way to deal with that is talk about health care, talk about jobs. how s andrew gillum handling what the president does every day? well, for the most part, lawrence, he s really trying to make sure he focuses on the issues apparently people care about. health care is obviously a big issue. and him responding to the issues that i guess trump brings up but not directly to trump himself. he s not going to necessarily comment on a particular thing trump says or does. but he s going to comment on the spirit of what trump is doing. you ve seen that in his as and speeches and rhetoric.
cutting medicare and medicaid, social security. people really don t want to see it anymore. if they do get look, the biggest thing trump has is his platform. what i m hearing you re saying is the best thing he can do is actually ignore republicans and come up with his own messaging. that gets cut through when you have those door-to-door conversations. that s why we re seeing this volunteer army that hasn t been activated since the obama campaign in 2008. this is even bigger now, of people saying we have to have these conversations and break through the noise. when voters hear this is going to be a back door cut to entitlements, they really do not want to keep those republicans in office. i will say for republicans who have been trying to sell this tax cut, josh holmes, a former mcconnell top guy, was quoted as saying that if the president doesn t say it, then nobody actually hears it. i think that helps explain what the president is trying to do here anyway. emily, david, thanks to
that s on dredge right now. go to the associated press thing trump tells ap he won t accept blame if republicans loses the house. he did not say that. ainsley: the question to the president was do you bear responsibility if the g.o.p. loses the house? and this is really what he said. he said no. i think i m helping people and i will say that we have a very big impact. i don t believe anybody has ever had this kind of an impact. how do you get that he is not going to accept blame out of what he really said? brian: they want to characterize the president all about me. has nothing to do with that answer. what he is actually referring to and the ap question i imagine he was alluding, to for the most part, presidents, no matter their popularity, does not have a major impact on midterms. in fact, famously, george stephanopoulos three weeks ago we told bill clinton come back in after your first midterm. you are actually hurting people. and your approval rating after same sex marriage and mili
years of his presidency saying to things to business people oh you didn t build that because the company you created well there is a road in front of that company paid for by the government. all of that really killed economic growth. steve: christian, real quick, isn t that all about whipping up people for the mid terms so he can turn out democrats and turn the congress around? it is. i don t think it s going to work. you know, also what he really did in his speech is what progressives always do now is accuse republicans of being racist. that s another thing trump has done is flipped around the racial acrimony that obama started. must better situation. steve: christian whit ton former policy advisor to president trump thank you very much. thanks, steve. steve: 6:20 in new york city. a food truck serving up fresh controversy. why the owner is refusing to serve police officers. and talking to your kids can be hard especially when they are hurting. don t ever let somebody tell you y