center on human rights and so one of the things i wanted to ask was both about saudi arabia and about russia because one human right is full and free elections and not being meddled, not having meddling from abroad. and i it was totally unrehearsed. i had president i had breakfast with president carter and vice president mondale. we had done no preparation for it. so that they didn t know what questions were coming. and so it was a spontaneous exchange in that sense. i think really came from the core of president carter and i admired him for with the when the follow-up question came for saying well, i just said what i said, i can t retract it so yes. and a lot of people would have tried to perhaps move the walk it back a tiny bit. but you remember what president carter spends a lot
and he does say and so did pastor robert jeffers a great friend of mine. he said, our president may not be the best at the bible. he may not have read it 2,000 times. but he s the best for us. and that s good. thank you. that was president trump last week at the faith and freedom coalition s road to majority conference. joining us now columnist for time magazine david french. his latest piece entitled the evangelical republic of fear poses the question why have evangelicals abandoned their previous commitment to political character to embrace donald trump? and david joins us now from nashville. between you and jon, this is like wsmv nashville, music city. so let s talk about this
justices dissent. and i think she sees she made a very good case for the fact that technology is like the super driver of gerrymandering. it s not your grandpa s gerrymandering anymore. and the chairman said we re going to propose ten republican seats and three democratic seats because i can t figure out a way to propose 11 republican seats and two democratic seats and the chief justice read that in his opinion on the bench. he understands that it is a really ugly, awful process, but he said it s for congress to deal with it. et cetera. and that in the modern world is i would say at best hopeful. nina, david ignatius has a question for you. i wanted to ask you to just say a bit more about the chief
general the story of the west, not just california, is how generously we apply that definition of a quality. all governed by rule of law, free press, generally market economies so that you have individual initiative to shape individual lives, lives of families and then the sum of the parts create the whole. that s the story of western style liberalism. liberalism in this sense goes back to the 18th century meaning of the word which is freed. that freed men in the language of that time were the determinative force. so that s what the question was about. it was not about san francisco or los angeles. and the fact that the president didn t understand the question may be all we have to say about him. if you want to hear that excellent speech to music, see jon meacham and tim mcgraw
this president is doing. i mean, we have talked a lot about north korea and that s obviously an incredibly historic and important part of this. but think about what happened in the days leading up to that step into the dmz. the president was joking around with vladimir putin about russian meddling. he was shaking hands with mbs who the world community has basically declared killed a washington post journalist and chopped him up into little pieces. he was meeting with president xi of china. this is another example where this president has been out on the world stage embracing traditional american adversaries as much as he talking with democracies. he seemed to misunderstand a question about western liberalism from peter baker, he was talking about liberals from san francisco in an answer that we found confusing. i think the treatment that ivanka got in that video, yes, we can joke about it.