very bad for the country, and also i think when he rails against the media we need to listen to why people think we re biased but he has stoked those fires. he wasn t off message. that is his message. and i just find it so interesting that even when he tries to do something else he still cannot help revealing some aspects of himself that i think are very troubling. molly, let me ask you about one of the refrains of this election, that the media takes trump literally but not seriously while voters take trump seriously but not literally. do you believe that s what happened with his talk about rigged election that the elites have overreacted to it but the voters understand what he s talking about? this is a brilliant insight that has been out there for a little while about the difference in how the media listened to donald trump versus the way his message resonates with average voters. and this is just the latest good example of that. he talks about rigging. this is something that s a
think we re bias but he has stoked those fires. he wasn t off message. that is his message and i just find it so interesting that even when he tries to do something else, he still cannot help revealing some aspects of himself that i think are very troubling. mali, let me ask you about a refrain of the election, the media takes trump literally but not seriously while voters take trump seriously but not literally. do you believe that s what happened with his talked about rigged election that the elites have overreacted to it but voters understand what he s talking about? this is a brilliant insight. the way his message resonates and this is something that s actually quite common rhetoric on the left and the washington freebie had a super cut. elizabeth warren talking about
governor, was the president off message on friday when he made those comments about business, because the republicans are making as you know, quite a lot out of this. no. he wasn t off message. he was on message. what the president was saying is that the private sector is the engine of growth and the government in some cases, for instance, in the funding, the government research of the internet, highways, infrastructure, technology, a strong educational system, clean energy is what a strong economy needs, that the government plays a role as a catalyst. that s what he was saying. he wasn t saying that government creates jobs. he was saying that government should be a partner in creating jobs. now they re so desperate to take the discussion away from bain capital and the tax returns that they re resorting to i think a nonissue totally. governor bill richardson, good to see you. thank you very much.