well from washington, i believe. melanie, as you look at these new comments from the president, and as we have reported for our viewers, it s really the first time he s personally said he didn t make this statement, doesn t know where it came from, what do you see broadly as a lawyer, and what do you see with regard to election law. like mr. avanatti and ms. wiley, it s clear that this is a wonderful day for stormy daniels and it certainly is not a good day for donald trump and his arguments about this. also this further suggests that this was in fact a campaign donation, an in-kind campaign donation. it was made to keep stormy daniels quiet, it was to help president trump get elected. now he says he didn t know anything about it. it s clear that somebody made that payment to help donald trump get elected. when john edwards, the issue
they are trying to gain a following. they say they have lost followers with the new algorithm. greg: of this quite a coup. coo. jesse: chief operating officer. greg: i shall shut up now for the rest of the show. dana: do you have any dinner recommendations? greg: every response these days when you re in trouble is an overreaction. thanks to social network and cable news, the outrage machines is 24/7. facebook will undoubtedly overreact. what they will do, it will be a cascade of virtue signaling. to reduce their bad press and go after conservatives because they are being portrayed as helping the right and helping trump get elected. they re going to have to get the
president trump get elected, can t understate that, right. it has yet to be seen if people who are in the nra camp are thinking twice about how they feel about voting. we do know for a fact it s been borne out for years these voters are extraordinarily mobilized and they show up at the polls. however, when you see this generational divide where more and more people sort of in this younger generation feel that government policies are actually putting them in physical danger, not just hypothetically but physically, that s something that has the potential to really change the way that this group of people vote. doug, one of the real risks for progressives, liberal democrats in this country is defeatism. cynicism, the sense, hey, we tried this. how many more people we have to die? we keep running into a wall here. how do you overcome that? how do democrats and others overcome that fear of cynicism or defeatism? well, look, when there is a debate about marriage equality in this country,
particular moment in the business cycle. confidence goes up, confidence goes down. that s the way of the world, that s how the american economy works. so we do see wages start to rise, we see black unemployment narrow with white unemployment. he s talked about about the stock market, business confidence, consumer confidence. these things are related to what he does. underneath the business cycle there are a lot of fundamental structural issues that he hasn t changed. those structural issues are some of the reasons he got elected. income inequality helped president trump get elected. he talked all about serving the forgotten american. you know who forgets the forgotten american? the stock market. the things that he touts don t serve the people who voted for him. let s talk about trade. he did bring it up. this was his signature issue. he figured it out on the campaign trail, that people were frustrated about trade. here is the problem.
but mr. bannon came on very late. i went through 17 senators, governors, and i won all the primaries. mr. bannon came on very much later than that. i like him. he s a good man. he is not a racist. i can tell you that. he s a good person. he actually gets a very unfair in that regard. but we ll see what happens with mr. bannon. but he s a good person and i think the press treats him unfairly. it s about a half of a throw under the bus. what s priority there clearly is to take away credit from steve bannon for the whole he played in helping president trump get elected. this situation should bother everybody. but what should particularly bother republicans is that what you see from the president today doesn t match up with the republicanism of calvin coolage,