outright racism roild in a toxic mix have given us a racist president. now the women trump painted as the american hating fate of the democratic party are pushing back. so let s bring in nathan gonzalez, editor and publisher of inside politics. good to see you, sir. good morning. let s play a little game of then and now with senator lindsey graham. he s a race baby, xenophobic religious bigot. he doesn t represent my party. he doesn t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for. we all know that aoc and this crowd are a bunch of communists. they hate israel. they hate our own country. okay, nathan. so what s the calculation for republicans like graham? is it about tax cuts and conservative judges and deregulation or is it about those few names, jeff flake, bob
talking about racist statements from the president of the united states. president trump escalating the ugliest of ugly politics. instead of apologizing for his racist attack on four progressive house members he justified it at a white house news conference. trump sparked the controversy sunday when he tweeted the congress women, all of them u.s. citizens should, quote, go back to where they came from. john roberts of fox news put this question to the president yesterday. does it concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist and that white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point? it doesn t concern me because many people agree with me and all i m saying, they want to leave, they can leave. the episode reflects the president s certainty he won t lose the support of his base nor the republican party he reshaped. most gop lawmakers kept mum but a number of prominent lawmakers did come out against the remark if against the
the system that joe and others are trying to prop up is the most wasteful bureaucratic and expensive system on earth. when you talk about subsidies what you re talking about is spending even more money, in this case taxpayer money, on a dysfunctional, wasteful and bureaucratic system. we need a simple system. save for the irony of bernie sanders talking about excessive spending, where is the party on the central issue? joe biden is the only democrat, according to the latest polls, that leads trump with independence. what s the winning plan ahead? well, i think we saw from the debates the initial debates that there s not a clear consensus on the issue. i think that there s a clear consensus on the democratic side against what democrats on the hill and what president trump have tried to do. kind of a coalition behind initially helping the affordable care act, obamacare, making that better. everyone didn t raise their hand when the question was asked
ages, but that he but that they were close friends. now you see the president is saying that there was some sort of falling out, but he wouldn t go into detail. i think those details might be critical. it s really critical to find out what did president trump actually know? if in fact he is in some way we come to find out that he knew a little bit more about what jeffrey epstein was up to, he maybe knew the ages of these women and didn t alert authorities. that might be politically and criminally damaging to the president, but i will say that also, i ve talked to a lot of trump supporters, and a lot of women trump supporters. the one thing that they seem to always have a soft spot for is children and this idea that even immigrant children who are being separated from their families, when you have people that havei when they think about children being mistreated, they start to question the president. so i think when we start seeing here whether or not the president knew about whethe
airplane when president trump dictated the response to that trump tower meeting. to your point, rona, hope, they are trump s version of the e-mails. because he doesn t e-mail. he doesn t text. these are people who stand around him and are the closest thing to, if they keep notes or you can track, they say the president or the candidate wants to talk to someone, they write it down, those those notes are the closest to trump e-mail. there is no e-mail. that s a great point. keith schiller his body guard he traveled with executive trump to rmpblt he s familiar with the hush money payments and the women trump was surrounded by. there are a lot of those quote/unquote gate keepers around president trump that aren t affiliateing with his campaign and could be damaging to him. you mentioned eleanor a former trump executive that worked with these people discussed some of that on the beat on friday. take a look. do you think that there are other hush money payments that he may know abo