A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. Steve you mean Reverse Psychology . Brian right. Steve watch this. Were fighting a war. And we are fighting a war on drugs. They are bringing in drugs. Theyre bringing in lots of bad people. And were going to start to get very nasty over the wall. You know, the democrats, anything i want, they want to oppose. You know, i just figured out how to do the wall i will say i dont want to build a wall and they will insist on building it. [laughter] i just figured that out right now. We will be taking some very tough actions. We need more republicans but they are friends of mine they say sir, we are better off until wait until after. Its better before. We are either getting it or we are closing down government. We need Border Security. Steve the president was very clear about that as he has been. Thats one of the issues that got him the keys th to
achings ainsley new democratic darling alexandria ocasio-cortez s primary victory has been seen as a revolution in american politics but, before cortez there was another political revolution from president donald trump. in a new op-ed our next guest says there are some similarities between the two, believe it or not, like being to the left of their parties. one major difference trump s nationalism is and sense of fraternity with all americans. here to explain this is frank buckley. he also is the author of the new book the republican workers party thank you for being with us. thank you for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. i remember when bernie sanders said he was a socialist everyone was just does he wonder what socialism is? now have you dozens of them running on this ticket. ocasio-cortez will disappear in 15 seconds. she is not bright enough. the point i was making was well, they are not the same people but both are to the left of their parties
important issues to voters and that s the economy. number two they can t say anything derogatory because voters in these states are actually feeling the economic progress. this message of a powerful economy is powerfully unifying and really good for republicans. gail, i would just tell you this. 4.1 g.d.p. that we saw a few days ago from the president, that ranks fifth highest as obama presidency. keep in mind we had 5.1% g.d.p. during the obama presidency. but the economy would not be the only issue on the ballot. what america knows that we are in a battle for america s soul and what most americans know we can t afford to lose. there will be things on the ballot that may not be measured from a policy standpoint like how do we protect our democracy? how do we make sure our children can effectively compete in ever changing global society simple things like affordable housing. access to this thing called the american experiment. in a lot of cases this president and this congress have f
months. steve: tax scam? [laughter] what we do know is majority of americans by many polls i have seen that middle class families have not benefited from the tax scam. and while corporations were handing out one-time bonuses wages were stag nantz in a lot of places and in fact companies laying off at the same time. steve: we were talking a little earlier at the top of the program about how wages are growing slowly, just a little south of 3% they would like a higher number. but, gail, when you look at the jobs number, when comes out in an hour. one of the things we have been talking about is the fact that right now because the economy is, according to the administration, booming, there are actually more jobs than there are people to take them. so, if you want a job, it s out there for you. yeah. you know, i think the democrats have to be savvy enough to know two things. number one, they are not going to say anything good or positive about the president s accomplishments when it come
and the key to all of that for trump is nationalism trump is a nationalist. that s how you understand his wall. he wants to make a distinction between americans and non-americans. what that means is got to take what you from people who aren t americans to americans. that will put him to the libertarian right. other people want to talk about getting rid of entitlements. that wasn t trump. so, you know, trump s nationalism say something about healthcare and the like, but the difference between him and ocasio-cortez he actually cares about americans. the democrats used to be like that. way back when they were the honorable people tipp o neal and so on. then they invested in identity politics. that s by way of saying we really don t like about half of you americans, right? i mean, it was sort of a