including with senator jeff sessions for attorney general. trump s transition team say they are confident and believe all of their nominees will be confirmed. thank you very much. good to see you. let s begin with the trump feud of meryl streep. is this just proving why trump won. if she wanted to hurt him the best thing she could do is praise him because all this does is energize his base and chris, i think he loves a fight like this with a high profile hollywood celebrity and frankly there will be more water cooler conversation today at the work place as to whether meryl streep really is an overrated actor. that there will be on the affordable care act replacement
to crush people and to bully them and keep them in line from expressing views that they disagree with. this has sparked a national conversation i hate the phrase national conversation, but it has and it s good. well water cooler conversation. yeah. no, but really. why should some group of self-appointed leaders get to dictate what people talk about in public. when did that happen? who elected glad king? we ve been talking a lot about glad, the gay adds vvocad si group. people are taking phil robinson s side. they re also hoping that this sparks a national conversation that maybe phil will 125. phil: fill will start to have conversations with gay families in louisiana. either way, it s a sticky situation and if they decide to pull out the robert sons decide to pull out, they ll be
crime. it s fear. it s the terror of being mugged or carjacked or robbed or whatever. we re seeing cases every day like that, that concern that, and again, as chris wallace said, it s substantially black to black crime and yet all of that is washed away so that the president can get president with allen and others for lecturing us about how we re paid and when to lock the doors. race was not part of the trial but it was part of the national dialogue. it was part of the immediate i can t recollects the way the media covered the trial, whether or not it was part and parcel of the trial itself so you can t ignore the fact this was a water cooler conversation that took place all over the country based on this trial. what better way, what better time and what better president to address it than this one? but the liberal media put it? . not just the liberal media. and the facts didn t sustain them at all but they still keep doing it and as you re saying,
for the washington post. great to have you with us. bob, let me ask you first. how damaging is this to romney? he better be mr. october if he s going to turn this thing around. i think it s really damaging. i think there s a thing called water cooler conversation, which is most people don t sit around paying attention to politics the way we do. there are things that breakthrough because they happen and you meet somebody at the water cooler at the office the next morning and you say, did you see what that guy said? it was callous and untrue, but it was a revelation of the real mitt romney. this is a guy that likes to fire people. this is the guy who ran bain. if you watch and listen to him in that tape, he s so much more comfortable sitting and talking to those people sitting there, paying $50,000 a piece and dumping on people who live a more ordinary life. eugene, there s no question that mitt romney went on the offensive today defending
strategist bob shrum tonight and eugene robinson. great to have you with us. bob, how damaging is this to romney? he better be mr. october if he s going to turn it around? i think it s really damaging. there s a thing called water cooler conversation, which is most people don t sit around paying attention to politics the way we do. there are things that break through because they happen, and you meet somebody at the water cooler at the office next morning and you say did you see what that guy said? what he was was callous and idiotic and untrue. this is the guy who likes to fire people and ran bain. if you watch and listen to him in that tape, he is so much more comfortable talking to those people sitting there paying 50,000 bucks aapiece and dumping on people who live a more ordinary life. yeah.