happen in the worst case scenario. trump tweeted about child separation today. he repeated this misleading claim about family separations and referenced a pohoto taken during the obama administration. it was fact checked back in may. it s seen here showing it was wrongly used to hit trump policies. explain this photo to us and the story behind it. this is one of those cases you can see a media mistake and how effectively the president is able to weaponize honest mistakes that the press makes. this was taken during the obama administration and used as the president was dramatically increased separation as an example of bwhat that looks lik. the president quickly seized on that. what is president is trying to argue is child separations are something he didn t invent. that is accurate. there were child separations that happened during the obama administration. there was a big question.
his side throughout. and she made that clear and she even in that op-ed where she talked about how she did not write the anonymous op-ed in the new york times. she said she would always speak out when she didn t agree with the president. she ended up being one of the fiercest advocates for the president s foreign policy on the world stage. jon: which is exactly what you want. there are high level cabinet people who may disagree with the president but if the president says it s black you say it s black. the secretary of defense, secretary of state, there are disagreements about big policy questions. but if you look at all the things that nikki haley was able to get done at the u.n. they re clear trump policies that he has enumerated over and over and over again. i actually think they probably started off not having a lot of chemistry in this relationship but over time they learned to work with each other quite well. i think the president came to
laser focused trump ae and his supporters are. i think people also underestimate how many people in america are willing to accept the adverse effects of donald trump as they pertain to the general discourse in america versus the economy and how people actually feel in their daily lives. the last point was interesting in light of all the john mccain controversy ren recently. so much discussion how offensive that comment was from the white house aide was, that so-called joke saying mccain is dying any way so it doesn t matter what he thinks. trevor noah s point is you may be offended by what you hear from the white house but if you think the economy is doing well and you you like other trump policies you ll let the offense slide. i thought an interesting way to frame. . offended versus effective. very good point. this is also a man, trevor noah, who is known for how comedic he
kind of momentum from president trump. on the flip side, this is a very difficult one to read because this is a unique candidate, in his 30s, good-looking, marine, former prosecutor, running against nancy pelosi, in support of certain trump policies. somehow having it both ways on abortion. what do you read into this if you re democrats nationwide? well, i think the democratic party has faded left. i think in the last couple of last couple of election cycles. that s part of the reason why they aren t represented in places like this. and if they re going to have that majority, they re going to have to be able to find candidates who don t agree with nancy pelosi or even much of the base of the party on a lot of stuff, and accept them in their in a larger tent. that s an important point for them. and they need to do that if they re going to get the majority. they re going to have to run the right candidate in the right district. they re going to have to make the match resist
mainstream media unfiltered. molly, i want to ask you, inasmuch as the democrats dismissed the tweeting. for the former president, he could have gone after the tax cut, he could have gone on and on about literally dozens of trump policies. does this suggest that maybe the tweeting gets to the democrats more than they want to admit? he s not going after the policy accomplish because it s a rebuttal of what previous eight years you can go after tweets because generally people to say i don t like the way you tweets even if they actually do kind of enjoy it and they enjoy following him and they react to everything he says. he can t go after the strong record of tearing down all the buildup and regulation, the supreme court appointment. the huge success of the tax cut at the end of the year. defeating isis. ed: thought obama couldn t do. he called isis the jv squad. instead of going after policy you go after rhetoric because it s an easy hit. ed: does it suggest that even barack o