that s right in march last year your prime minister spoke condescendingly of flux of obsessed human rights defenders feeling the overwhelming urge to reprimand us and make allegations against us and that s been the case for the past couple of years that s where you you join the club you sign up to various commitments they re going to review your progress that s that s the point of joining the club why complain about it. i m trying to every drawing terms on them and everybody comes on the period of about doing to move this discussion into some something reasonable it s our vision of how to take human rights how the soft elements of a corporation in the european union. law constitutional issues i m going a brazen principle and if you don t like being held to account you know know it and then that s not the that s not the case the think is that the sense that human rights defenders you don t we want to we want to avoid making it go you want to
to overplay his hand and send out the right signals to the donors into the base, but i think when they get behind closed doors with donald trump, he is a better negotiator. harry reid was a terrible negotiator. i think this guy can do deals, who cares when he comes out into the sunlight and bashes trump, that is just politics? by the way, chuck schumer very critical of something president obama did, israel, for example. absolutely, but this is such a game of politics. again, the bottom line is does anybody have a plan to move the country forward, no matter what we are talking about, particularly deal the affordable care act. what is the alternative to 140 characters? charles schumer standing up for the senate and spewing thousands of words? looking down, condescendingly, over his reading glasses, blathering on and on and on and not saying a thing? and all they have is this opposition messaging, and i know we are going to talk about that later in the show, but that is what people
comparison i can think about, i wasn t around back then, i think of 9/11 and this network every 9/11 anniversary, we run on this channel what the live nbc news coverage was that day. i read the statistics about the day of the kennedy assassination, about 50% of the people in the country that afternoon were tuned into their televisions, watching it. by the time the funeral happened a few days later, it was something like 80, 85% of the entire country was watching it. besides 9/11, i don t think there has been another event in the television age that has brought the country together like that. newsweek magazine said a little condescendingly that television came of age that weekend. and in fact, three years later, by 1966, the national surveys said more people got their news from television than from newspapers. can i say something about emotions catching up. i don t think i felt anything for days. for the day of the assassination, the day after, we were too busy.
megyn. megyn: yes. that just made my case. we know so little about this guy, we re relying on the strategic thinking of dennis rodman. i mean, come on, megyn, we can this really is scary and the problem, i think, immediately is that south korea now has a new stronger president, she s one tough cookie and i don t mean that condescendingly, tough iron if you prefer. and in the past, kim jong-il a south korean vessel, and sinking, and they may be thinking and miscalculating they could do it again. it s not a planned attack to take south korea, but spiraling out of control. we have a defense pact with south korea, the bullets a
the coddling of donors, which is the seedy side of politics he doesn t like doing. those are the kinds of things he doesn t like doing, doesn t do well. and at times when he s really looking his approval rating is down and he s trying to win re-election, you need that help. and the detriment on capitol is that why there has been so much miscommunication, harry reid, chuck schumer and the white house? that s right. there has been a lot of miscommunication. you hear a lot from democrats on capitol hill, this is a white house that doesn t talk to them. that treats them condescendingly, really as junior partners. and president obama wasn t a senator long ago so there is some almost personal resentment on that level. so i think that explains it. scott wilson, it was a great read, and one of those that will be i think looked back on over time. thank you. nice to see you. up next, the political panel is here. we ll have even more on our new nbc news wall street journal