tuesday of the primary season. president trump s election changed a lot in the playing field, even though salena zito will tell you, donald trump did not create what s going on in this country, he s the result of what s happening. she s here. the author of a new book, inside the populist coalition. do you know who says that this is an important book? no less than the president of the united states tweeting that this is a book that people should read. first of all, congratulations to you. thank you so much. always appreciate the insight early on. you were telling me you have to pay attention to these people. trump isn t creating them. they are creating trump. pay attention. yep. you were right. so, let s do a state of play. west virginia, don blankenship, i m trumpier than trump. do you agree with his assessment of him? do you believe that he is more appealing to the base than trump might even have been? you know what i think is so interesting about all of the
and it s imputed to them as an amorality or moral difference. you say we re missing the point. what is the point and they seem willing to ignore in trump? what they see is they see themselves as not having someone having their back and they decided to be pragmatic and they decided to have in the book has seven different ark types that make up this coalition, a variety of very different people and they decided that they were going to be more pragmatic and put the traditional silos of elections and character in a president to be about someone having their back and it doesn t mean they always stay with him. like you said, it s not about them. this book isn t about trump. this book is about them and not just how they re impacting the ballot box look at dick s sporting good, look at the nfl. it went from the number one like
connections and where your fellow americans are. you can t just write off everything you don t like on twitter as being a bot. a lot of these people are just dealing with real hard needs in their lives that are not unlike from anybody else s. that s how they arrived at donald trump. you may not like it but that s the truth. the silos of them donald trump is their king cyrus. now everybody will google king cyrus. he took down babylon and he was seen unlike trump as a very fair broker of the people that he did overtake. he would respect their rules and wishes. you re not talking about that part. right. there are people in the base as seeing this man as delivering them and killing things off that they don t like. you got cultural and economic. how so? yeah. so evangelical voters have always gone with the person that s like them, that looks like them. it s like the beer test. this is a guy you can have a beer with, this is a guy who s values i share and there have been a lot of fis
races is trying to outrun each other as being the most trump candidate. so it shows the durability of the coalition because these guys want to, you know, place their stamp and say i m the trump guy, i m more trumpier than trump. who says that? that is understanding what the voters are looking for. it s understanding that this coalition is still making an imprint, not just in the ballot box but in almost everything we do. so the president comes out and says don t vote for blankenship. he can t win in the general. people around him say, he would be roy moore, the judge from alabama on steroids. he doesn t say, don t vote for a man who refers to asians as china people or as african-american as the negro race or any of the other things that he has done including his felony past. why not? because he wants to say the
it is often invoked never enforced. but i think the key point until 2:00 p.m. today is does donald trump simply dismiss it or does he as he s suggested standing with macron a week or two ago try to take the things that critics of the deal feel are really objectionable. the fact that sunsets is 2025 leaving the iranians open to develop weapons. their ambitions in the region. is this a mend it not end it strategy or a political peak, i m following through with my promises and let the consequences be damned. thank you both very much. we re following breaking news, chinese state media reporting that president xi jinping just met with kim jong-un in northeastern china. this is video from a prior meeting between both leaders in march. we don t have any video of the current meeting. this week s two-day meeting comes as kim is prepare for a potential summit with president trump. there is no date or location