Into your local newscast. sean: joe, it is interesting, because every newsroom in america got the trump russia collusion conspiracy hoax, they all fell for it. and they missed the biggest stories about abuse of power, corruption, rigging hillary s investigation, though dirty dossier, the fisa applications, lying, and premeditated fraud on a fisa court. it is the talk show host that do all of these things that exposed it. the mueller report and what that exposed between no collusion between the trump associates and russia was a death blow to this industry. i m not saying all of, again, but many in it. you played a clip of rachel maddow before. she had her lowest ratings last month and a very busy news month, lowest ratings since trump s inauguration. a cnn you see down double digits again last month on top of a 26%
The most rain to fall in the konl united states causing strategic damage to one of the biggest cities in the country. the disaster is going to test this president, all of washington and it had cast a huge shadow over everything to come this fall. and that s not all this president had to weather this summer. remember when we told you this? tonight i m obsessed with the idea that august is a slow news month. no, wrong. august is the month where presidents dreams go to die. well, we hate to say we told you so, but we told you so on this one. history has proven once again and again and again that august can be tough on a commander in chief. think tea party protests, katrina, there was nixon s resignation. august proved tore down right terrible for president trump, arguably one of the worst august for any president in a generation, even before harvey hit. this was a long, hot summer for this white house. in augusta loan the president faced increasingly aggressive north korea, infighting
Reporter for bloomberg whose tweets today remiepded us just how much happened during the past month. i ve got them on the screen. there are more than 12 things. 12 things but they re actually a combination of different things. which of these many events have happened in the last 31 days do you think are the most impactful, the most important? other than that ali a pretty slow news month right. i would say there are a lot of things president trump says and does that i believe in the long haul get washed away in the tied of history. but there are a couple of things this month that happened that will never be forgotten. the top of which i would say is charlottesville, the neonazi violence and the president s ee give indication of this with the counterprotesters. this gets to the heart and soul of this country. is this a country giving quarter tots neonazis who want a ethnic o state or is it going to stand
And his attacks on republican leaders on capitol hill. senior white house staff departures and the first solar eclipse to cross the u.s. in 99 years. and now the president faced the first major natural disaster as hurricane harvey struck texas as a category 4 hurricane. joining me now the white house reporter for politico and our reporter for bloomberg whose tweets today remiepded us just how much happened during the past month. i ve got them on the screen. there are more than 12 things. 12 things but they re actually a combination of different things. which of these many events have happened in the last 31 days do you think are the most impactful, the most important? other than that ali a pretty slow news month right. i would say there are a lot of
Actually they were a combination of different things, which of these many events that have happened in the last 31 days do you think are the most impactful, the most important? other than that, ari, a pretty slow news month, there are a lot of things that president trump does will get washed away in the tide of history but there are a couple of things that happened this month that will never be forgotten. the top of it is charlottesville, and the neo-nazi protests, and this goes to the heart of what the country stands for. will this be a country that gives a stand to the people that only look like them, or will it stand on the american values, equal protection regardless of background? i certainly think the president s reaction to this, the lack of an unequivocal clear condemnation opened up the