Unpresident ial behavior that trump exhibits most in his rally and tweets that we excessively cov cover. Bring on the coverage. The reaction like places of fox news, is this what everyone says leading up to the 2016 election. What a great idea, remember what happened the last time the media covered every tweet and rally and every word of donald trump and every wink and nudge became apart of the medias snarknato, they elected donald trump, the bozos. Is it a No Win Situation or if you are the president , no lose. I want to know what you think. Smerconish. Com, answer this question at this hour. Does covering every one of president trumps speeches,
rallies and tweets and utter rans hurt or help the gop and trumps reelection. Thank you for being late. Tom, great to have you back. I would be remised if i did not say it in the out set. Here you are of another summer of extreme weather. Well, we can talk about that in a second, lets talk about this whole question of coverage of trump. I dont know who was the moran from fox news who made that point of how did that work in 2016. Thats the question that i would ask is how is it working in 2018. What happened in 2016, donald trump was running against h Hillary Clinton. We know there were a lot of democrats and suburban women and just enough that in a choice between trump and hillary ready to say, Really Dont Like Hillary and i think i will take a chance on trump. What has been happening, trump has been locked at 43 approval
and 53 disapproval. We saw in the alabama election and the pennsylvania election and we saw it in the recent election in ohio is that group of independence and moderate republicans and others were ready to take a chance on trump verses hillary are no longer ready to do so because they got the proof of the last two years of his incredible toxic behavior. And so what do we see in ohio . We saw an election in a district that democrats have not won in over three decades. A district that trump won by 11 percentage point and the republicans are barely leading over the democrats by less than 1 point. There is omnivonly way one way explain that that moderate republicans and suburban women and independent voters are
turned off by everything they see and hear trump doing. They see him tweeting, calling lebron james a dummy after lebron james just built a school for i mpoverished students. They see that and it reminded them what a despicable president this is. The latest gallup number is 89 approval. Where is the evidence of these moderate republicans who are leaving. Is it instead the explanation for both the ohio 12 or the pennsylvania Special Election that there is great enthusiasm among democrats but not that republicans are turning their back on the president. I dont think so. I dont think you can explain that big of a gap in the ohio
electi election. A district that has not sent a democrat to congress in over three decades, almost sending one now and led alone the alabama election . I am sure there is greater democratic enthusiasm. Lets say he only has 89 . Lets see 80 among republicans, he narrowly won those states. I dont expect republicans to abandon trump. Trump is not a winner in those states. You made an observation that from the getgo he made no effort to reach out and expand his base. That observation is undeniable. He has boxed himself in. I want to put up on the screen of this tweet about my colleague about don lemon and something you also made reference to. Here is what it occurs to me,
tom, we read it and we find it objectionable. Lebron james was interviewed by the dumbest man on television and he made lebron looks smart which is not easy to do. I read that and i am appalled by it. But it occurs to me that the people who fill those arenas for him, they love it and he knows their sweet spots. You are exactly right. The very things that keep his 40 are the things preventing him from going to 40 or 50. He has a problem. Once he got to office he made zero effort to pivot to the center. I think that worked when you have Hillary Clinton as your opponent. There is a lot of republicans who found her so toxic and they were not going to work for her. Hell moderate when they come in. He has not done that. I think thats going to be a real vulnerability going
forward. When i travel and people recognize me because of my association of cnn. I will hear the comments and criticism from trumps tractors. You guys elected him because you guys gave him all that attention. Thom Thomas Friedman from the time saying give him all the attention. Lets say you have a decent democratic candidate to oppose him. You dont have the punching bag of Hillary Clinton. I think the contrast between trump and that candidate could be very large if he continues to go around and calling people like don lemon and lebron james dummies or his daily kind of divisive and really unstable behavior. Take my final minute and answer the lay up that i give
you. This is another summer of extreme weather. The Sleeper Issue for 2020 president ial election could in fact be that we have an election thats not about left or right or hot or cold. If you look at whats going on now or the west thats burning of the center of the country is baking, the east is flooding. You got fire and sweden above the Arctic Circle and crazy drought by austria. The big question on the ballot is not who lost north korea but who lost planet earth . A democrat candidate who focuses on Reenergizing America could have a lot of jer watch that issue, Mother Nature could be on the ballot in 2020. It is a good prediction. Tom, thank you so much. Come back. Always a pressure michael, thank you. What are your thoughts. Tweet me at smerconish or go to my facebook page. What will do we have katherine . The more the media covers him, the more his base loves him. They keep on calling yall fake news. Thats the point i was making to thomas freidman. I often said this about the president. The only thing worse in his mie mind, hes probably watching right now. The negative attention is no attention. He wants the attention and look, he gives good ear. He knows how to push the buttons of his base. Hes at it today in Bedminister Tweeting already. It does not help the gop at all. They have to answer the
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law. You are implying something of the mix of the country, that was the real problem of remarks. I heard her expressing frustration at change in this country and wanting maintenance of the status quo, and as i am watching for the first time, i thought she was flat out wrong because the change in demographics of this country have more to do with birthrates than they do with immigration. Would you agree with that . They got a lot to do with birthrates and some to do with immigration and the changing demographics of this country. This country has had changing demographics throughout history but what we have had is a broad consensus around patriotic idea. America is more of an idea based country than it is an ethnicity based country or demographically based country. You know look the unfortunate thing is we do need to have a
series conversation about immigration. It is not the case that there is only one sensible and only one nonrace position Immigration Debate and that only nonrace position is more immigration. Thats not the case at all. We do need to have a debate around things like should people come into this country have a certain set of skills or language skills. We need to have those kinds of conversations and what happens here is now we are yet in another fire storm of whether the real issue of Immigration Issue or whether or not they are zenophobic racist. She drove a significant part of the president s electorate in 2016. I think the significant why donald trump was the gop nominee
and the why hes the president of the United States and running against Hillary Clinton. It was primarily because of the primary campaign. So in closining tell me abou this great, white culture war, it pitched who against whom . This is in response to the controversy you saw of sarah young out of the new york times, there is this talk of can you be racist against white people. My colleague says what she was imitating was a lot of language from white people. There are white people who celebrate the end of tl powhe p of the white male. The point i was making is that a lot of those same people making those arguments occupying the elite level of the academy and
theyre not talking about celebrating or losing their power. What they are talking about is celebrating the loss of power that white americans they dont like. Theyll still remain on top. Theyre talking about the battle between the cultural battle between more Elite Progressive Americans who live on the coast who are white and more Working Class and americans and religious americans who live in the hartland aeart land. When you look at this and you realize the person thats making this argument in Silicon Valley is not arguing for the lost of their own status. Theyll be fine. Theyre arguing of a political defeat of people they dont ike alike and it is becoming race plays in my way. It is hard to take when a white
progressive elite from the coast says the day of the white person is over but theyre not talking about their day. It is a provacative piece, i pinned it on my website. David, thank you for coming back. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Ingraham needs to be stifled. She is hoping for an all white america. I like diversity of my country. I think we are misdirected in looking at immigration because there is much more going on causing the the changes apparently having her so unsettled. Still to come, Rudy Giuliani admits that negotiations between Robert Mueller seems to be
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the 2012 memo. The president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani have been Ham Everying Hahamerring hard on the idea that mueller should wrap up his investigation before labor day. Here is what he told cnn this week. When i got involved, i would have told you not testifying would be the right legal strategy but then hurt politically. Now i am thinking the contin continuance of the investigation would actually help because people are getting tired of it. It is transparently there for the president s team. What if you are Robert Mueller . In the summer before the 2016 election, cohen held the conference to criticize Hillary Clinton and handling her emails but he did not bring charges. Why did he do that . Presu presumably he thought that shes going to win. He diplomdnt want to look like taken a dive for the ig government. Thinking of the ramifications of the election, instead of doing his job is what got comey in trouble. What should mueller do publicly in the weeks ahead. Joining me is Scott Frederick son in the d. C. Office of folly. Counselor, lets put the memo from eric holder. He says in part, politics must
play no role of federal investigators or prosecutors regarding of criminal charges and Law Enforcement officers and prosecutors may never select the timing or criminal charges for the purpose of affecting the election. It sounds to me that you should not do something affirmative but should you avoid something you would normally do in the conduct of your business . Well, i think you are reading the Holder Memorandum correctly. But, that does not mean he stops working on his investigation. It means he has to be careful in any action he takes that it does not have a direct pack on the election. Hell continue with this incisi
incisio investigation. I think mr. Rudy giuliani is dreaming if he thinks the report will be done and provided before september 1st. I dont see reports coming from mueller after labor day as you get close to the election. Mueller has a trial Coming Up In September of mr. Manafort here in washington, d. C. He subpoenaed individuals to the grand jury and hes actively involved in the investigation. None of that has to stop and he wont stop doing any of that. I think with respect to the report and if he envisions any charges that come close to mr. Trump or Close Associates or family, thats the kind of thing that hell avoid as we are closer to the november elections. What if he concludes that Rudy Giuliani is Stone Walling him right now and negotiations continue for a few more weeks and all of a sudden it is october. Can Robert Mueller drops a subpoena on the president in
october or will he be procolluded by doing so by virtue of this protocol. The protocol is not something that would procollude him. There are situations where he can subpoena someone. Subpoenaing the president close to the election is an action that hell be reluctant to take and only if hes forced to do so. Now k look i dont think there is any questions that Rudy Giuliani is Stone Walling and trying to play this out to avoid and interview the president. There is no way he wants the president to be interviewed and so you hear things like perjury trap and such like that. Thats not what mueller is going to engage him. And on top of that mueller if any prosecutors were to bring a case that was based on a perjury trap would be thrown out of a federal court by a judge in a heartbeat. Thats not what special
counsels do. Mr. Fredericksen, Donald Trumps name was not on the ball ballot. It was debacle for him to why is the lesson from comey, just do your job and put on plieblin and ignore the election time line. Thats what every prosecutor would like to do but here you have a situation where it is the president who is at the heart of this investigation. And, mueller will do his job. Mueller will put his blinders on and do everything except when it comes to something that could directly impact the elections. Comeys Press Krcconferences Th he held there. Mueller is not going to take any action for which he could be accused of throwing the election to the democrats or the republicans. When it comes to the report, i dont think well see that running up close to the elections. My final comment, i worry that this investigation is going to continue through the election and i am not talking about 2018. I am talking about 2020. I really appreciate your counsel, thank you for being here. Of course. I want to remind you to answer our survey questio question