only the road map for the midterms, but for the general election, you hear president obama saying basically, get out there and vote to save our democracy. and you hear president trump saying get out to vote to save me. so while he s talking about unity, the great irony is this country is divided. we see very different crowd at president trump s and president obama s speeches. it makes his job difficult to call for unity and at the same time, calling for people to vote out there for president trump. jeff, to you at the white house. you ve covered president obama, president trump. something president obama said here today is things can get worse if we don t step up. he talked about void we face here and he said what he said yesterday, that apathy is the biggest danger that we face. let s contrast the message with what we heard today. it s so sbrinteresting. when the former president said if we don t step up, things can get worse. that was the only moment in 24-minute speech which he
be here today men and women of l.a., but if you know katy. daughter of a local nurse and a police officer. educated in the public schools. now she s running to take the values of her community to washington. and make real change. so these are some of the men and women, many of them who never imagined running for office. but what they understood is the stakes are high in this election. this is a consequential moment in our history. and the fact is that if we don t step up, things can get worse. when there s a vacuum in our democracy, when we are not participating, not paying attention, not stepping up, other voices fill the void.
like what are you doing besides driving his cases into the ground and helping the opposition, which would be bob mueller s team ultimately, not us, okay, not the media. rudy is running this case into the ground and in the process degrading women publicly. feeding on the idea that a woman s value is based on her looks. i can t tell you how i think how many reverberations this will have. if we don t step up and i m telling you right now, anybody who is as upset as i am or even more upset or even slightly upset, say something, tweet something, get on your phone. say something to a group of people. write something. run for office. this is the time to step up. because women, what we have learned is no one is going to do this for us. nobody. so find a voice and use it. to that point, how difficult is this for republicans? until now, they re saying i m not going to touch this, this is another category.
crossed. america steps up and enforces them. it s nice as you saw in that graphic when our friends come next to us theresa may, that zone from france but ultimately this is about american leadership. no one else is going to enforce this. no one else is going to do what needed to be done. when that butcher right there, bashar al assad and his benefactors ultimately in russia and iran do this to innocent people, we have to stand up and do something about it. we will see what the future holds, but an important and bold night last night for the united states of america. abby: that s the big reaction this morning. you cross that red line, griff, we re going to respond. as you said, it s up to the united states to be the leader of the free world. if we don t step up, people are not going to follow in that lead. what do we stand for? do we want these innocent people, men, women, and children as the president said last night gasping for air? many of them killed over recent years. you think abo
they don t have an air force, but they will come after the folks. you have to defend it from the ground and the air. that s the problem because the american people are gun shy about that. i don t think that. can you do that with the kurds? no, the ppk are different in iraq. you re not going convince them to arm them. they want to separate from turkey. now to bob in washington. senator graham, what s the took on bush s tone and campaign trail and remarks on donald trump? how do you interpret that? it comes across whiny. for all of us if we don t step up the game and start to challenge these guys more