immigration instead of his successes in the economy is because he s addicted to the noise level. so that s thought going to change no matter who wins, democrats or republicans. i ll tell you what, brian, i hear you. and i ve taken your counsel on this before, but i ve never seen for cuomo primetime, i think there s three things i ve never seen before that i saw today. one is well, i ve never seen the media block out an ad. now, cnn did it first. we wouldn t run the racist ad the president put out, the new willie horton ad. we wouldn t take money for it, wouldn t run it. i ve never seen the media back off this close to an election that way. i ve never seen a president and party strong ad vote republican with the woman looking at her kid, i thought was a good sophisticated ad, but
we have a lot of ads, and they certainly are effective based on the numbers that we re seeing. a lot of things are offensive. your questions are offensive a lot of times, so, you know he s always offended by tough questions. but senator, the idea that he knows how ugly the ad is and yet he says but they re effective, what does that tell you? again, we cannot become a country where our leaders, democrat or republican, it s all about the ends and the means. there s no moral compass whatsoever when it comes to the means. we define ourselves about what we do. i think the ideals about gandhi ends and means really being the same thing. for people having a no holds barred, whatever works, whatever makes money, whatever scores points, that s not the truth of our nation. i believe people are going to respond to that. i see in my own state the kind of toxic ads now running against
the numbers we re seeing. but mr. president, a lot of folks have said the ad was offensive. well a well, a lot of things are offensive. your questions are offensive a lot of the time. and then when told that bigoted ad you put out there, people won t run it anymore, including the mothership. he s got to be aware there s a controversy surrounding the ad. well, i think that he does believe that immigration is an effective closing argument for him. his whole entire point was to get republican voters so ginned up they would come out and vote in very large numbers. not necessarily republicans, people who supported him in the last election. and this is all about turnout in this election. it is about getting all those of people to come, getting them out in large numbers. well, that s the bet.
let s play this sound today because if you believe he s going to have regrets because of his tone that can t be true and what you re about to hear. listen to the sound bite of him talking about the ad and what he thinks he knows about the ad and what s going on with his racist ad. is there anything as you look back on your first two years that you regret that you could take back and redo? well, there would be certain things. i m not sure i d review all of them, but i would say tone. i would like to have a much softer tone. i feel to a certain extent i have no choice, but maybe i do. and maybe i could have been softer from that standpoint. hold on a second. we talked about this, but this is what i wanted to say, i ll role play it out for you. they re asking about the controversy surrounding the ad, which is no secret to anybody. i don t know about it, i mean you re telling me something i don t know about. we have a lot of ads, and they certainly are effective based on
own problem. now, the president he s got a good gut for what will get people going, certainly in his own base. and he has been saying it to anybody who will listen within his own ranks it s got to be immigration. so then the day before the mid-terms their biggest ad, the new will ae horton ad, a really disgusting ad, nbc and fox fox decides can t run it anymore it s a racist anti-immigration commercial. and even though it comes from the trump campaign, even though it was late last week, even though it was, you know, so close, we re not going to run it anymore. that is unheard of it, and it does race the specter of did he place too big of a bet on hate and fear? now i could be having a nice big