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for the holidays you can t beat home sweet home. we go the extra mile to bring your holidays home. president trump said on friday my poll numbers have gone through the roof. the roof of a dog house, maybe. the truth is the poll numbers are stable but historically low. it s been that way for a long time. opinions have hardened like quick dried cement including on the impeachment topic which is why trump might not like the brand new poll from fox. it s just coming out. it says 54% of americans say they believe trump should be impeached. just 41% say he should not be impeached. there s been no movement either in trump s favor or against him. what does that tell us about america and about the role of the media? with me now is jim lair, the
veteran journalist. he was covering the nixon impeachment inquiry, the clinton impeachment and now here we are on the brink of another impeachment vote on wednesday. jim, what do the polling numbers we ve seen again and again, poll after show showing people are fixed in their positions. what does that tell you about america in 2019? well, it s a story that been there from the very beginning. i would say the last three or four years ago the story of division, the division that existed within the electorate, within the populous here it was a story that was missed by we, in other words, mainstream press did not cover it. when donald trump announced he was going to run for president, and immediately said oh, by the way, barack obama wasn t born in the united states, we, the mainstream media, the established order said oh kr, w,
bobby kennedy s children and grandchildren. this moment because, of course, bobby kennedy is also buried there alongside his brother at that grave site. and jacqueline kennedy onassas. extraordinary set of circumstances, and it s what they call the ultimate domino effect. the first assassination was that of john f. kennedy 50 years ago, and it was kind of the beginning of tragedy in america, the innocent america after world war ii. exactly. then became the assassination, of course, of bobby kennedy, assassination of martin luther king, then vietnam and watergate and 9/11 and all kinds of things since then. and, you know, robin mcneil in new york, as we watch this ceremony, as jim was just saying, all of us of a certain
when they arrived at lovefield, as jim said. glorious summer day. they looked radiant. mrs. kennedy in that strawberry ice cream colored suit, a big bunch of blood red roses held next to her. crowd rapturous to see them. then into the motorcade through the outskirts of dallas, into downtown dallas where the crowds were so thick that looking from the first press bus where i was over the heads of the cars in betwe between, they were seven cars away, you wondered how the motorcade could get through the crowd when it surged out into the street. then we turned on to the plaza. i was just thinking, i ve got nbc radio news on the hour piece to do soon. then there was a bang. we all said, what was that? was that a shot? then there were two bangs closer to together. i said, those are shots, stop the bus. i saw people running up the grassy knoll, as it became known, including policemen. so i run up there too, thinking
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