here soon and they finished the counting in they are finishing up what s called this paper examination portion of the audit. we have seen that it has been sort of a hallmark, or they ve been sort of these repeated touch stones among those who believe in the presidents conspiracy theories around the election that the election was stolen from them in that there was some sort of fraud that nobody has been able to prove, but tt s definitely there. we have seen these films happen. we saw mike lindell do a film and then do another film and there s definitely been a whole universe of youtube devoted to this stuff. the result of this new film that was promoted in phoenix this weekend that seem to have unusual access to the audit itself. i will say, reading your coverage of it today, the thing that was more surprising to me was to learn that the state senate president, another republican lawmakers, were there. it seemed like sort of something that would be more for the die hard, true believer
but he says nothing. he says nothing because one of the touch stones of how donald trump operates is he doesn t apologize. he doesn t believe in apologies. he never apologized for the original statement, he s not a war hero, i like people who weren t captured. the only apology i can recall is after the access hollywood tape where he gave like a hostage video where he gave a begrudging apology. one thing we have hraefrpbd about the president the last few months is he doesn t want to change. i got elected president of the united states this way. why should i change my personality? he hates john mccain. and he knows that john mccain hates had him. so this, of all things, is not going to prompt an apology. the idea of decorum, thinking about the institution is something he is not as concerned about. i think every day when he
got concessions from the president, we ve seen theresa may here, xi ping has been here. theresa may thought she had president trump move on russia over the poisoning of the former spy in the uk. and then it seems like what he says to them is meaningless. because a few days later he totally changes his tune. are people starting to think there s no point making that trek to the white house, because he may say something very nice, but it doesn t actually mean very much. yeah, that s a wonderful point. and let s face it. the two touch stones of diplomacy are capacity, your ability to really operate in the world power. you have to have that, but it s also credibility and consistency. and we certainly have that power to operate in the world. and our problem today is consistency. and so a classic example would be north korea where we go in a matter of a couple of months
specifically millennials, who are they. do you know some millennial poser who are gen xers. the pugh research center strapped on their shades and declared that henceforth millennials are people born between 1981 and 1996. so what does that mean? the touch stones are this. the 9/11 attack and the wars in afghanistan and iraq and the election of america s first african-american president. baby boomers between 46 and 64. they have the kennedy assassination as a searing memory and the vietnam war. and the civil rights movement. gen xers, born between 65 and 80, have watergate but also have the reagan revolution, the reagan assassination attempt and the challenger explosion as touch stones. as far as i m concerned, pugh has it all wrong. it is a simple thing. you are a millennial if you were not old enough to vote in the 96
successor in 2005, eating birthday cake, it was mccape s birthday. the reason the photo ended up being famous, a famous moment from the bush administration. this became famous alongside this picture, which also became famous, the following day from august 30th, both of the pictures, seemingly happy on the surface, both become negative touch stones, disaster touchstones from the george w. bush administration because that picture of bush happily strumming the guitar in california and enjoying birthday cake in arizona, both pictures were taken while hurricane katrina made land fall on the 29th, and on the following day, that was the day that new orleans was absolutely devastatingly hit with flood water caused not just by that storm, but the breach of the levy that protected that city.