Because she wants to win. Jason she is keeping track. Dana she is keeping track. She keeps quiet. Jason its a legitimate question because its the first thing you do as a new member of congress. You have to go in front of the entire body and say who youre going to vote for. The democrats lack leadership. I dont think they have the right policies. To the point of the peace beforehand, i dont think that there is some big wave coming from the democrats. I sat there in 2010, the rafter, the election after barack obama. They took a net of 63 seats that switched hands and there was a big tsunami. I dont see any evidence of it happening. Dana i was so excited to talk politics. I didnt do what i meant to do, which is to introduce morgan to all of you. I am very rude. Im known for that, being very rude. Morgan, welcome. Morgan i am thrilled to be here. Ive been watching this show for
as long as they want to keep saying moral victory, they can have their petition patient trophy. There is one winn
cover incessantly with donald trump. they have totally flipped the equation. to be, in a contrived way, actually advocating this is what we need to do so we can all get together on the same page, it is so contrived. there are very few media outlets that i really trust. when you want to read the paper in the morning, i think the wall street journal gives the fairest, straightest objective viewpoint. gone are the days of the new york times or someone like that that will objectively actually give you the straight up news. greg: i believe that is owned by our parent company. dana: i believe so. i am a subscriber. between 2000 and 2008, it was the same. this was when the media, they have to fight against president bush on everything, every issue, every utterance. it was amplified. as greg pointed out, they were asleep during the obama years. this is what i think. there has been some journalism that s had an effect on the
just said. democrats are saying we can t give the republicans a win. think of what newt gingrich did in 1996 with bill clinton on welfare reform. it was a big issue. it helped president clinton win reelection because it basically changes the paradigm. it s not that this can t get done. it s the republican i think it is more likely it gets done because of trump. geraldo: where do you stand on that? which of those images grips you? greg: i reject the black-and-white nature of the conversation. you could hold a number of stances, competing stances on immigration. it s like a stock portfolio. you can be for a process that enables safe legal immigration while curbing illegal immigration or other types. when you say something like that, you feed into the medias gaping maw and it turns into you hate foreigners. it s either you are for this are
trump administration. if you look at the hhs, former hhs secretary tom price. he had to resign after the reporting. the new york times and others mainly the new york times focusing on scott pruitt. they didn t have to focus on president trump. they were doing journalism and i had an effect. greg: so did scott pruitt. he had an effect. that s what he went after him. he was doing some good stuff. he was doing stupid stuff too. dana: you can do good policy without the other. the other thing i would say is if they cover every tweet and every utterance, then they are not covering the other stuff. there is limited room in the newspaper. if they want to do the tweets, they can do that any of the stuff goes on to the radar. geraldo: people like tom friedman. he is dead wrong on this. but they don t get is that trump is a movie star. he has charisma.
other drips didn t seem to mind because they thought hillary had it in the bag anyway and they had no other way to get people to watch their boring, mindless coverage. telling the media to focus on terms behavior, you are in effet saying hey, remember how we elected trump in 2016? let s do it again. isn t that true, morgan? seems like friedman has amnesia. the more you focus on trump, the better he does i think. morgan: it s interesting that this advice is coming from people, the most boring dinner party ever. they re having a glass of expensive wine and say isn t trump awful? you are having people that have no understanding of social media and how the president actually go straight to the america people advocating for the media covering him in general. this plays directly into his playbook, as you said. i was on the other side of him in the primary, so i know what it s like for him to get all the media coverage.