candidacy, trump had a former aide listen to thousands hours of talk radio to discover what issues americans cared about most. s after a three decade long priming by rush, by 2016, gop primary voters were ready to vote for a candidate who reminded them of their favorite t host and trump seized the moment. and like no else before him, he resonated with rush s listeners. one need only look letter that cousin sent to congressman adam kinzinger one of the few voting to impeach donald trump, he recited god, trump and talk radio hosts limbaugh. quote, you should be very proud that you have laost the respect of lou dobbs, laura i think glam, tucker and et cetera. and more importantly rush limbaugh and us. think about that, rush s sway over this person was such that it overruled her family loyalty and had her literally demonizing her cousin for having a difference of opinion. such was rush s reach with conservatives. with his passing, many others now finally recognize the truth of wh
please join me in welcoming mr. sexton. thank you so much for coming out. it feels really weird to be out in public talk about this book i ve got around the country talking about political reporting it s really easy to hide behind all that stuff you can tell his story and pretend it doesn t have much to do with you in politics you can always pretend like it s an external thing. this book is exceedingly personal for me. i basically went through my entire childhood and upbringing into re-examined my life in the things i ve gone through as was mentioned i come from a small indiana town clinton. my family this factory workers. they are laborers, into b frank they have made up the base of donald trump s elective base. i examined a lot of that stuff. a little background on what made this project started in the first place goes back to october 72016 which was my 35th birthday and also the day you might remember that donald trump access hollywood tape dropped in which she said some r
another author that i like the most, so this is from phil clay who is the author of redeployment. for i knew it would be urgent, compelling an excellent from the first page, information is a much more expensive book than either suspected. a riveting and raging memoir from a a author of remarkable toughness and emotional rage. this is an unflinching and honest account of war, of homecoming, and of what happens when a woman reports and assault in the institution around her try to smother the truth. that did you a good idea of what we re about to hear, and without any for the talking from me, may i introduce ryan dostie. [applause] hello. thank you for everyone coming tonight. thank you for having me. i m just going to set up my timer so that i don t talk for too long. i m going to explain quickly the format, not the four but the stretch of the book so you know why i might be popping in to whatever i start the book out much to some reviewers dismay as, at the very start of the
between a slogan and a story. right now it s in vogue to say the democrats have a messaging problem. maybe they do, probably do, but that s for candidates and strategists to figure out. that s not the media s problem. the media suffers from a different dilemma, the slogan versus the story. slogans are simple, they are seductive. infrastructure week is a slogan, cheerky one. it became a punch line for years and years. but it s just a slogan. the story about what all of the infrastructure money, what all of the funding will do, the story about rebuilding these roads and bridges and of the expansion of broadband, infrastructure week is just a slogan. we need to know about the story. there s a gop slogan out there as well, the bill is a monstrosity. this is a slogan republicans are using to attack democrats. but the story is the last republican president promised to pass an infrastructure bill and failed, so now they need the democrats to fail too. stories are complex. stories ha
voters who backed biden, raising hopes for a house gop takeover next year. let s climb that hill together. reporter: have republicans found a way to manage the trump factor? gop governor larry hogan joins me in moments. plus, message received. democrats point fingers about their election losses. what lessons should the party learn? we must get back on the ground and impact things that are important to people. reporter: the mayor-elect of new york city, eric adams, is here, as well as virginia s democratic senator, mark warner. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is feeling some whiplash after a bruising election day for democrats, president biden spent the weekend celebrating a significant win, bipartisan passage of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which passed the house overnight friday with the support of 13 republicans and gives billions of dollars to the nation s bridges and roads as well as broadband, water and energy systems