If the press were not fake and if it was honest, the press would have said what i said was very nice. Wait a minute. Im not finished. Im not finished, fake news. The press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control. The public doesnt believe you people anymore. Now, maybe i had something to do with that, i dont know. As you know i have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. The media. In other words, the fake news. Any media that dislikes what hes done. Today, the president received a Double Rebuke from members of his own party. In a column for the Washington Post senator john mccain said President Trump is sending a dangerous message to the world. He wrote the while Administration Officials often condemn violence against reporters abroad trump continues his attacks on the Integrity Of American Journalists and news outlets providing cover for repressive regimes to follow suit. On the senate floor this
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let me finish tonight with this night in history. on april 4th is, 50 years ago this evening, new york senator robert kennedy campaigning for president was scheduled to address a rally in indianapolis. the rally was set for the broadway part of the city, a low income african-american neighborhood. as i read in bobby kennedy a raging spirit, the indianapolis police warned kennedy not to go into that area that night. they canceled the promised police escort for him because word had come from memphis that martin luther king had just been killed. knowing the possible danger and the tenderness of the moment, kennedy felt he still needed to go ahead. do they know? he asked the man standing with him on a flatbed truck? had the people he s about to address gotten the word? they hadn t. and so he began. i have some very sad news for
or things so tangible. they did so out of sheer resentment they felt and showed itself superior to them. well, resentment doesn t call for fine engineering or executive workmanship. to them the goal of having trump in the white house is simply having trump in the white house. maybe that will some day, not too far enough, not be enough. today s usa today newspaper has a big story in the front page about how the voters of appalachia in eastern kentucky where robert kennedy visited and championed 50 years ago this month are now donald trump voters out there. so what happened? what happened is the people who care about hardship forgot that we re in this together, that the concerns of working people should be the politics of working people, all working people. bobby kennedy was one leader who championed the cause of waitresses and construction workers and police officers and other working people. unlike trump, he was a uniter. for that reason he had the look of someone who could actually
of the best-seller, bobby kennedy: a raging spirit. joe kennedy iii, when we re back in this room tomorrow night, we ll be talking about joe kennedy iii, as my late mother would say, a face like the map of jirireland. he s going to give a democratic response. look at him. he looks like he could be a british royal, too. but they want somebody from the future. they want somebody from the strong future. they want somebody from the past. they want to go back to their roots and they want to talk about hope in the future. they didn t want to put one of their presidentials out there. i talked to joe crowley, one of the leaders today. by the way, this is serious candidate. maybe not in his own words, but there are people out there pushing him for 2020. believe it or not, people like lou sussman, the people that pushed barack obama to give this speech in 2004, are pushing him. so this is serendipity he was picked by the leadership. but i ll tell you, everybody likes him. in fact, i ve met t
good leaders talk about people. they root for people no matter their condition. some very good leaders root for those people that have it the hardest all the harder. bobby kennedy whom i just wrote a book about made a point of exploring places where poor people live, the mississippi delta where kids with distended stomachs barely survived on a diet of molasses. families of california workers where their employers refused to let them organize. native americans living on reservations. he learned what he could. imagine walking in their shoes and called those conditions unacceptable in this country. what a far cry from this president who simply dismisses such people from human consideration. my book is bobby kennedy a raging spirit, now ten weeks on the new york times best seller list. the president we have is donald trump. close to a year in office but not a step closer to learning his duty to all the people either those who live on a block along fifth avenue nor hold a