. white hour. look at him. guess where you re going back to. believe it or not we actually carefully cut that to show you the least vulgar excerpt we could find from that tape, right? still makes you, it makes your skin crawl. i will also just note that when the nazi groups took to the highway overpasses yesterday, one of them right next to the swastika banner, they draped a banner that said let s go brandon, but because of actually the geniuses you think they are, they misspelled the word brandon, like that s a hard one. why were they saying let s go brandon, if you are unfamiliar with that flaz, it s like that phrase, it s like code among the pro trump crowd for f joe biden. it s become a rallying cry for pro trump folks all over the country and even for republican elected officials, but for whatever reason, this particular
had to confront it and work your way out of it. in this case it doesn t matter. i will say this is not it s unique in american history, it s not ue, of course, in other countries. there s a powerful essay written by vaclav havel who was a magnificent and eloquent czech dissident and he wrote an essay called the power and the powerless and he talked about what happens when a polity, a group of citizens live within a lie and what happens it s a corrosive effect on the civic culture and political culture and that s where we are and why it s so important that people not willing to live between lie, in havel s flaz live within the truth speak the truth, that s the press, those are political figures and citizens but it has to be republicans. what s troubling here, it s no surprise trump is doing this,
five of romney s classmates told the washington post what they remembered about a day in 1965, a day that, quote, they came upon lauber tackled him and pinned him to the ground. lauber, his eyes filling with tears, skraemd for help and romney clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. the washington post posted it online ahead of today s printed edition. we did not talk about it last night on this program because we had questions about how valid it is to bring up something someone did nearly 50 years ago when they were in high school. those questions, though have not gone away. so we ll let you decide for yourself tonight whether this story itself is relevant to a presidential campaign or not. what we want to focus on is romney s response to the story. we heard what he said in north carolina today, aapologizing, quote, if anyone feels they were offended, but on fox news yesterday, romney said more, including response to accusations the incident amounted to gay bullying since t
piece today saying that recently some democrats have backtracked on the phrase, war on women. why have they backtracked and should they backtrack? you know, martin i mean, lawrence, so sorry. i m not sure exactly why they re backtracking. i surmise in my piece for the hill that there s perhaps some polling that suggests that flaz is too harsh for voters in the same way that some thought that culture of corruption was too harsh at the time. they definitely shouldn t. and i think it s very important they pay close attention to the fact that this is how a lot of women feel, under siege and disrespected. and to the point that michelle was just making, it s not just because of the economic conversation that we ve been having, it s because of these measures at the state level that are just very disrespectful. suggestions that women will use rape as a loophole in order to get abortion care. on and on and on. having men tell us what medicines we can take or whether
supports the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. the best he ll say is he s not planning to try to change it. karen finney, you wrote a piece today saying that recently some democrats have backtracked on the phrase, war on women. why have they backtracked and should they backtrack? you know, mar the u.tin i lawrence, so sorry. i m not sure exactly why they re backtracking. i surmise in my piece for the hill that there s perhaps some polling that suggests that flaz is too harsh for voters in the same way that some thought that culture of corruption was too harsh at the time. they definitely shouldn t. and i think it s very important they pay close attention to the fact that this is how a lot of women feel, under siege and disrespected. and to the point that michelle was just making, it s not just because of the economic conversation that we ve been having, it s because of these measures at the state level that are just very disrespectful. suggestions that women will use