OF COURSE IT’S NOT A DOG WHISTLE, IT’S A BULL HORN TO HIS
MOST BIGOTED, RACIST SUPPORTERS
AND WE’LL JUST SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
SO PRESIDENT TRUMP MEANT MOST OF
THE DAY DOUBLING DOWN ON THOSE
TWEETS OVER THE WEEKEND.
ATTACKING A GROUP OF PROGRESSIVE
WOMEN FOR BEING CRITICAL OF THE
UNITED STATES JUST LIKE THE
PRESIDENT IS CONSTANTLY CRITICAL
OF THE UNITED STATES.
DURING THE EVENT THAT WAS
SUPPOSED TO HIGHLIGHT AMERICAN
MADE PRODUCTS, DONALD DEFENDED
HIS REMARKS IN WHICH HE SAID THE
FOUR DEMOCRATS SHOULD QUOTE, GO
BACK TO THE CRIME INFESTED
PLACES FROM WHICH THEY CAME.
OF COURSE WHEN HE SAYS THAT HE’S
TALKING ABOUT CINCINNATI, AND
DETROIT AND NEW YORK CITY.
LATER IN THE DAY THE FOUR
CONGRESSWOMEN THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP ATTACKED IN THE TIRADE
STOOD SIDE BY SIDE TO DENOUNCE
THE COMMENTS.
THE COMMENTS. HERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF HOW THE
DAY UNFOLDED.
DAY UNFOLDED. >> AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED, IF
YOU HATE OUR COUNTRY, IF YOU’RE
NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE.
>> OUR SQUAD IS BIG.
OUR SQUAD INCLUDES ANY PERSON
COMMITTED TO BUILDING A MORE
EQUITABLE AND JUST WORLD.
>> IF YOU’RE COMPLAINING ALL THE
TIME VERY SIMPLY, YOU CAN LEAVE.
YOU CAN LEAVE RIGHT NOW.
>> THIS IS NOT THE FIRST NOR
WILL IT BE THE LAST TIME WE HEAR
DISGUSTING BIGOTED LANGUAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT.
THE PRESIDENT. WE KNOW THIS IS WHO HE IS.
>> THEY CAN LEAVE.
THEY CAN LEAVE.
YOU KNOW WHAT?
I’M SURE THAT THEY’LL BE --
THERE WILL BE MANY PEOPLE THAT
WON’T MISS THEM.
>> WEAK MINDS AND LEADERS
CHALLENGE LOYALTY TO OUR COUNTRY
IN ORDER TO AVOID CHALLENGING
AND DEBATING THE POLICY.
>> IN ONE CASE YOU HAVE SOMEBODY
THAT COMES FROM SOMALIA, WHICH
IS A FAILED GOVERNMENT, A FAILED
STATE.
STATE. WHO LEFT SOMALIA, WHO ULTIMATELY
CAME HERE AND NOW IS A
CONGRESSWOMAN WHO’S NEVER HAPPY.
>> HE WOULD LOVE NOTHING MORE
THAN TO DIVIDE OUR COUNTRY BASED
ON RACE, RELIGION, GENDER
ORIENTATION OR IMMIGRATION
STATUS.
STATUS. >> THEY HATE OUR COUNTRY WITH A
PASSION.
PASSION. THE VOTER WILL DECIDE.
>> BY THE WAY, THIS IS -- IT’S
JUST PURE INSANITY CONSIDERING
AGAIN HOW NEGATIVE DONALD TRUMP
HAS BEEN ABOUT AMERICA.
HOW CRITICAL HE HAS BEEN OF
AMERICAN LEADERS HIS ENTIRE
ADULT LIFE, BUT KATTY KAY WE’LL
GET TO REPUBLICANS NOT BEING
CRITICAL OF DONALD TRUMP IN A
MINUTE AND HOW SHAMEFUL SO MANY
OF THEM HAVE BEEN.
BUT MY GOSH, THIS IS SENDING
SHOCK WAVES ACROSS THE WORLD
BECAUSE THE WORLD HAS SEEN
AMERICA AS A COUNTRY THAT HAS
ACCEPTED IMMIGRANTS AND IS
ALWAYS CALLED THE MELTING POT.
EVEN TERESA MAY YESTERDAY CAME
OUT AND CONDEMNED RIGHTFULLY
DONALD TRUMP’S REMARKS.
>> NOT JUST TERESA MAY, BUT
BORIS JOHNSON WHO WILL TAKE OVER
IN ALL LIKELIHOOD NEXT WEEK AND
WHEN YOU LOSE PIERS MORGAN WHO
HAS BEEN A STAUNCH DEFENDER OF
THIS PRESIDENT, AN UNUSUAL VOICE
DEFENDING THE PRESIDENT VERY
FORCEFULLY IN THE BRITISH MEDIA,
AND YET, PIERS MORGAN ALSO CAME
OUT YESTERDAY AND SAID THAT WHAT
DONALD TRUMP SAID WAS WRONG,
THEN THE PRESIDENT DOES HAVE A
PROBLEM INTERNATIONALLY.
PROBLEM INTERNATIONALLY. LOOK, THIS IS WHAT AUTHORITARIAN
REGIMES DO.
REGIMES DO. THEY SAY YOU CANNOT CRITICIZE
THE LEADERSHIP.
THE LEADERSHIP. YOU CANNOT CRITICIZE THIS
COUNTRY.
COUNTRY. IF YOU CRITICIZE ANYTHING ABOUT
IT, IT MEANS YOU’RE NOT BEING
PATRIOTIC.
PATRIOTIC. THAT’S WHAT WE HEAR FROM
AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES AROUND THE
WORLD.
WORLD. NOT WHAT WE HEAR FROM
DEMOCRACIES, IT’S NOT WHAT WE’RE
USED TO HEARING FROM THE UNITED
STATES.
STATES. IT IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST GIFTS
THAT A DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM CAN
GIVE ITS CITIZENS IS THE RIGHT
TO POINT OUT FAILURES AND
CRITICISMS AND WEAKNESS IN THE
SYSTEMS WITHOUT BEING THROWN OUT
OF THE COUNTRY OR BEING THROWN
INTO JAIL OR OSTRACIZED FROM THE
COMMUNITY.
COMMUNITY. THIS IS THE PRESIDENT WHO IN HIS
VERY FIRST ACT AS PRESIDENT
STOOD UP IN HIS INAUGURAL
ADDRESS AND SPOKE ABOUT AMERICAN
CARNAGE.
CARNAGE. HOW CRITICAL IS THAT OF THIS
COUNTRY?
COUNTRY? I HAVE NEVER HEARD A PRESIDENT
SPEAK IN THAT KIND OF DARK
LANGUAGE ABOUT AMERICA THE WAY
THAT DONALD TRUMP DID WHEN HE
WAS INAUGURATED.
WAS INAUGURATED. >> HE SLANDERED AMERICA.
HE LIED ABOUT THIS COUNTRY.
HE MADE UP THINGS THAT SOUNDED
LIKE IT WAS IN THE SUMMER OF
1968 ABOUT AMERICAN CARNAGE WHEN
CRIME RATES WERE SO LOW IN NEW
YORK CITY AT THAT TIME THEY
COULDN’T COMPARE IT TO ANY OTHER
TIME FRAME WHEN RECORDS WERE
BEING MADE.
BEING MADE. SAME THING WITH BORDER
CROSSINGS.
CROSSINGS. AT 50 YEAR LOWS.
AND YET, DONALD TRUMP LIED ABOUT
AMERICAN CARNAGE.
AMERICAN CARNAGE. HE SLANDERED OUR COUNTRY.
AND HE CONTINUED TO DO IT.
HE LIED ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT.
HE LIED ABOUT BARACK OBAMA.
HE LIED ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH.
HE LIED TIME AND TIME AGAIN
ABOUT THIS COUNTRY.
SO JUST -- IT’S VERY CURIOUS
THAT SUDDENLY NO ONE’S ALLOWED
TO CRITICIZE THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA WHEN THAT HAS HELPED
DONALD TRUMP BUILD HIS POLITICAL
CAREER.
CAREER. AGAIN, TALKING ABOUT AMERICA
BEING QUOTE, CRIPPLED.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,
AMERICA HAS ALWAYS BEEN GREAT.
SO WE TALKED ABOUT THE
REPUBLICANS WHO DIDN’T STEP
FORWARD, A FEW STEPPED FORWARD
YESTERDAY.
YESTERDAY. RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS.
YOU -- THEY DECIDED TO PUBLICLY
ADMONISH THE PRESIDENT’S TWEETS
AS WRONG OR INAPPROPRIATE.
ONLY TIM SCOTT THE ONLY BLACK
SENATOR CALLED THEM RACIALLY
OFFENSIVE AND ONLY CONGRESSMAN
MIKE TURNER AND WILL HURD WENT
SO FAR AS TO USE THE TERM
RACIST.
RACIST. >> I THINK THOSE TWEETS ARE
RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC AND
INACCURATE.
INACCURATE. THE FOUR WOMEN HE’S REFERRING TO
ARE ACTUALLY CITIZENS OF THE
UNITED STATES.
UNITED STATES. THREE OF THE FOUR WERE BORN
HERE.
HERE. IT’S ALSO BEHAVIOR THAT’S
UNBECOMING OF THE LEADER OF THE
FREE WORLD.
FREE WORLD. YOU SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT
THINGS THAT UNITE US, NOT
DIVIDES US.
DIVIDES US. >> AS HARD AS IT IS TO BELIEVE,
THERE WERE SOME REPUBLICANS WHO
DIDN’T JUST RUN AWAY FROM THE
CAMERAS LIKE COWARDS.
THEY ACTUALLY EMBRACED THE
PRESIDENT’S TWEETS.
PRESIDENT’S TWEETS. YOU HAD GOP SENATOR STEVE DAINES
WHO FACES RE-ELECTION NEXT YEAR
AND HE WROTE THAT MONTANANS ARE
SICK AND TIRED OF LISTENING TO
ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-SEMITE
ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-SEMITE RADICAL DEMOCRATS TRASH OUR
COUNTRY AND OUR IDEALS.
THIS IS AMERICA, WE’RE THE
GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
I STAND WITH DONALD TRUMP.
JUST DOESN’T ALL GO TOGETHER.
ANYWAY, REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN
RALPH ABRAHAM WROTE THERE’S NO
QUESTION THAT MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS THAT DONALD TRUMP
CALLED OUT HAVE ABSOLUTELY SAID
ANTI-AMERICAN AND ANTI-ACCEPTSEM
THINGS.
THINGS. I’LL PAY FOR THEIR TICK EETTES
OUT OF THE COUNTRY IF THEY TELL
WHERE THEY WANT TO BE.
IT’S NOT RACIST TO TELL THE
NATURAL BORN CITIZENS TO GO BACK
TO THEIR COUNTRIES.
SENATOR PERDUE WAS SAID TO WHICH
THE GEORGIA REPUBLICAN
RESPONDED, THAT’S OUTRAGEOUS, OF
COURSE THEY’RE NOT RACIST.
MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO TIM
SCOTT.
SCOTT. SENATOR RICK SCOTT OF FLORIDA
SAID IT WAS NOT RACIST.
WHAT DO WE EXPECT?
CONGRESSMAN HARRIS OF MARYLAND
SAID THEY’RE OBVIOUSLY NOT
RACIST.
RACIST. IN WHAT WORLD THERE, BUDDY?
SENATOR TIM TILLIS OF NORTH
CAROLINA TRIED TO DODGE THE
ISSUE SAYING IT LITERALLY DON’T
GO ON TWITTER.
I WONDER IF HE JUST LIVES UNDER
A ROCK AND DOESN’T WATCH THE
NEWS OR READ THE NEWS OR TALK TO
ANYBODY ELSE.
ANYBODY ELSE. WHAT A COWARD.
I’M SURE THE PEOPLE OF NORTH
CAROLINA WILL TAKE THAT INTO
CONSIDERATION.
CONSIDERATION. WHEN THEY VOTE NEXT YEAR.
WHITE HOUSE SENIOR ADVISER
IVANKA TRUMP DECLINED A REQUEST
TO COMMENT ON THE TWEETS AND
OTHER TOP WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS
DEFENDED THOSE REMARKS.
>> DO YOU FIND THE PRESIDENT’S
TWEETS RACISTS AND WHAT DO YOU
MAKE OF WHITE NATIONALISTS
PRAISING THE TWEETS?
>> AGAIN, I DON’T FIND THEM
RACIST, THE PRESIDENT JUST WENT
ON AND CLARIFIED HIS COMMENTS.
I THINK HE SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF.
>> I DON’T THINK THAT THE
PRESIDENT’S INTENT IS RACIST.
>> MARK, HOW IS IT NOT RACIST TO
TELL WOMEN OF COLOR TO GO BACK
TO THEIR COUNTRY WHEN THEY’RE
BORN HERE?
BORN HERE? >> HE HAS AN ASIAN WOMAN OF
COLOR IN HIS CABINET.
>> WHAT, GENE, WHAT?
YOU CAN ATTACK -- YOU HAVE ONE
ASIAN-AMERICAN WOMAN OF QUOTE
COLOR IN YOUR CABINET, SO YOU
CAN TELL U.S. CITIZENS TO GO
BACK TO THEIR COUNTRIES BECAUSE
THEY’RE BLACK?
THEY’RE BLACK? IT’S INSANITY.
IT’S INSANITY. THE REPUBLICANS, HOW SHAMEFUL.
HOW SHAMEFUL.
HOW SHAMEFUL. I NEVER EVER IMAGINED IT WOULD
GET THIS BAD.
>> YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IT WAS
LIKE 1949 OR 1959 ALL OF A
SUDDEN.
SUDDEN. LOOK, WE KNEW THAT DONALD TRUMP
WAS RACIST.
WAS RACIST. I MEAN, THAT’S NOT A HEADLINE.
THAT’S NOT BREAKING NEWS, BUT
THIS ISN’T COUNTRY CLUB SORT OF
NOT OUR SORT OF PEOPLE RACISM.
THIS IS END OF THE BAR 1:00
A.M., GO BACK TO AFRICA KIND OF
RACISM.
RACISM. >> THIS IS DAVID DUKE -- I SAID
IT YESTERDAY, GENE, I’LL SAY IT
TODAY.
TODAY. THIS IS DAVID DUKE RACISTS.
>> IT IS.
>> IT IS. >> I KNOW SOME TRUMP SUCKUPS
YESTERDAY THAT WROTE THINGS
CRITICAL OF ME SAYING THAT.
ALL I SAID WAS YOU LIFT DAVID
DUKE’S WORDS AND DONALD TRUMP’S
WORDS AND I GUARANTEE YOU CAN
PUT THEM TOGETHER AND FIND DUKE
TWEETS OUR QUOTES THAT SOUND
JUST LIKE WHAT DONALD TRUMP HAS
BEEN SAYING IN THE PAST COUPLE
OF DAYS.
OF DAYS. >> ABSOLUTELY.
>> ABSOLUTELY. DAVID DUKE, GO BACK TO GEORGE
WALLACE AND LESTER MADDUX.
THIS IS BAD, BAD STUFF.
THIS IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES WHO MADE I THINK A
WRONG POLITICAL CALCULATION.
MADE A POLITICAL CALCULATION TO
GO FLATOUT RACIST I GUESS TO
ENERGIZE HIS BASE.
HIS AGING WHITE BASE AND DRAW
THAT LINE.
THAT LINE. HE SEEMED TO BE TRYING TO MAKE
MORE MISCHIEF FOR DEMOCRATS.
HE OF COURSE HAD THE OPPOSITE
EFFECT.
EFFECT. HE MANAGED TO BRING DEMOCRATS
TOGETHER WHO HAD BEEN
SQUABBLING.
SQUABBLING. THEY’RE NOW UNITED AND I WANT TO
SEE REPUBLICANS GO ON RECORD
AS --
AS -- >> YEAH.
>> YEAH. >> LET THEM VOTE TODAY.
LET’S HEAR FROM THEM.
TO COMPLETELY -- IT’S A
COMPLETELY DISGRACEFUL
COMPLETELY DISGRACEFUL PERFORMANCE FROM AN ORGANIZATION
THAT USED TO CALL ITSELF THE
PARTY OF LINCOLN HAS FORFEITED
ANY RIGHT TO DO SO IN THE
FUTURE.
FUTURE. THIS IS -- THIS WAS JUST
APPALLING, STUNNING.
APPALLING, STUNNING. I GUESS NOT SHOCKING BECAUSE
IT’S DONALD TRUMP BUT WE KNOW
WHO WE’RE DEALING WITH NOW.
THIS IS JUST FLATOUT RACISM.
>> WELL, YEAH.
AND IT IS AND MR. CHAIRMAN, LET
ME GO TO YOU.
YOU RAN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
MICHAEL STEELE, IT SEEMS
UNRECOGNIZABLE TO ME.
WE DON’T HAVE TO GO BACK TO
1860s TO TALK ABOUT LINCOLN.
WE CAN GO BACK TO RONALD REAGAN
IN 1989 IN HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS
TO AMERICA AND WHAT DID HE TALK
ABOUT?
ABOUT? HE TALKED ABOUT IMMIGRANTS, THAT
THIS PARTY WOULD BE STRONG SO
LONG AS WE REMAINED A NATION OF
IMMIGRANTS AND WELCOMED REFUGEES
TO OUR SHORES AND WELCOMED
IMMIGRANTS TO OUR SHORES AND
HERE WE ARE, A PARTY THAT
LOVES -- AND A PRESIDENT THAT
LOVES TO EMBRACE RONALD REAGAN
DOING THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF
WHAT REAGAN SAID THEY SHOULD DO
WHEN HE WAS LEAVING THE WHITE
HOUSE AND PUBLIC SERVICE.
>> EXACTLY RIGHT, JOE.
EVEN WHILE REAGAN MAY HAVE
STARTED OFF AT TIMES ON THE
WRONG FOOTING, FOR EXAMPLE,
LAUNCHING HIS CAMPAIGN IN THE
HEART OF MISSISSIPPI AND CALLING
UP SOME OF THE RACIST PAST OF
AMERICA IN THAT MOMENT, THE
DIFFERENCE IS HE LEARNED FROM
THAT.
THAT. AND CORRECTED AND HE RECOGNIZED
THE GREATER CALLING OF HIS
OFFICE.
OFFICE. AND THE ENORMOUS IMPORTANCE OF
THE UNITED STATES.
AND I THINK THAT THAT’S WHAT’S
MISSING HERE.
MISSING HERE. DONALD TRUMP DOESN’T CARE ABOUT
ANY OF THAT.
>> YEAH.
>> YEAH. IT’S -- IT IS SHOCKING.
SAM STEIN, TELL ME, WHAT HAPPENS
TODAY?
TODAY? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
ARE THE DEMOCRATS GOING TO PUSH
THAT RESOLUTION CONDEMNING
DONALD TRUMP FORWARD AND DO YOU
EXPECT ANY REPUBLICANS TO --
OTHER THAN MAYBE WILL HURD TO GO
ALONG WITH THE VOTE?
>> I WAS LITERALLY GOING TO SAY
THERE MAY BE ONE REPUBLICAN AND
IT COULD BE WILL HURD.
THE RESOLUTION WILL COME TODAY
FROM ALL THE INDICATIONS.
WE’LL SEE WHAT THE VOTE TALLY
WILL BE.
WILL BE. OBVIOUSLY, THE CONTEXT HERE IS
THE COMMENTS, BUT ALSO
PROCEEDING RESOLUTIONS
PROCEEDING RESOLUTIONS CONDEMNING REPRESENTATIVE OMAR
HERSELF FOR HER COMMENTS SO
THERE IS SOME CONTEXT HERE FOR
MEMBERS VOTING.
MEMBERS VOTING. AND CONTRASTING TO THOSE ONE AND
AL GREEN SAID HE’D BRING FORWARD
A RESOLUTION OF IMPEACHMENT, A
DATE TO BE DETERMINED.
THAT’S WHY I THINK, YOU KNOW,
GENE TO A CERTAIN DEGREE IS
RIGHT WHERE DONALD TRUMP HAS
DONE POLITICALLY HE’S UNIFIED
THE DEMOCRATS, BUT I THINK
THAT’S ONLY TEMPORARY TO BE
HONEST BECAUSE I THINK THERE ARE
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS THAT
CONTINUE TO AWAIT DEMOCRATIC
LEADERSHIP WITH RESPECT TO THE
IMPEACHMENT QUESTION THAT WILL
ONLY BE RESURFACED BECAUSE OF
THESE AND THAT -- AND NANCY
PELOSI WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH
DOWN THE ROAD WHEN A RESOLUTION
LIKE REPRESENTATIVE GREEN’S COME
FORWARD.
FORWARD. I WILL SAY ONE THING -- NOT TO
GO ON GENE’S COMMENTS AGAIN BUT
HE MENTIONED THAT TRUMP HAD MADE
A POLITICAL CALCULATION TO DO
THIS.
THIS. I’M NOT TOTALLY SURE THAT IT’S A
POLITICAL CALCULATION.
POLITICAL CALCULATION. I THINK THIS IS -- AT THIS POINT
IT’S FAIR TO SAY OBJECTIVELY
THIS IS A CHARACTER ELEMENT FOR
DONALD TRUMP.
DONALD TRUMP. HIS HISTORY OF SAYING OUTRAGEOUS
THINGS OR ACTING IN WAYS WOULD
QUALIFY SOMEONE AS A RACIST GOES
WELL BEYOND HIS PRESIDENCY.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE WHO
HAS NOT APOLOGIZED YET FOR
CALLING FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE
CENTRAL PARK FIVE WHO WAS SUED
FOR DISCRIMINATORY HOUSING
POLICIES.
POLICIES. HE SAID A JUDGE WITH MEXICAN
ROOTS COULD NOT BE IMPARTIAL IN
A CASE.
A CASE. SO THERE’S ENOUGH EVIDENCE AT
THIS POINT TO SAY MAYBE THIS
ISN’T POLITICALLY CALCULATED BUT
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT’S DEEP
EMBEDDED IN HIS CHARACTER.
WE SHOULD BE --
>> YEAH.
>> YEAH. I THINK IT CAN BE BOTH.
I THINK IT CAN BE DEEPLY
EMBEDDED IN HIS CHARACTER AND AT
THE SAME TIME, I THINK YOU READ
MAUREEN DOWD’S COLUMN ON SUNDAY
MORNING AN SAID, OH, WAIT A
SECOND, DEMOCRATS ARE FIGHTING
EACH OTHER, LET ME DRIVE A WEDGE
BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES AND I’LL
ATTACK THE FOUR PEOPLE THAT
NANCY PELOSI IS ATTACKING AND
YES, HE’S SHREWD ENOUGH TO KNOW
IF HE ATTACKS THE FOUR WOMEN AND
SAYS THE THINGS THAT HE SAYS
THAT SOME PEOPLE WILL
PREDICTABLY BLAME NANCY PELOSI
FOR THAT.
FOR THAT. WHICH OF COURSE AS MAUREEN DOWD
POINTED OUT IS ABOUT THE
STUPIDEST TAKE YOU COULD HAVE.
BUT IT’S HAPPENED.
JON MEACHAM, FINALLY, I THINK --
I WANT TO FOLLOW-UP WITH
SOMETHING THAT GENE SAID AS WELL
WHICH IS I HAVE ALWAYS TOLD
PEOPLE BECAUSE IT’S TRUE THAT
POLITICS IS A GAME OF ADDITION.
AND NOT SUBTRACTION.
YOU WANT TO MAKE FRIENDS.
YOU WANT TO GET MORE PEOPLE
VOTING FOR YOU.
NOT LESS.
NOT LESS. DONALD TRUMP AND HIS APPROACH
OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS IN
OFFICE HAS MADE NO SENSE TO ME
BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN PLAYING A
GAME OF SUBTRACTION.
HE HAS BOILED DOWN HIS SUPPORT.
HE CONTINUES TO BOIL DOWN HIS
SUPPORT TO THE MOST HARD CORE
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE. AND THIS DOES NOT SEEM TO BE THE
WORKINGS OF A SHREWD POLITICIAN.
IT SEEMS TO BE THE WORKINGS OF A
ONE TRICK PONY WHO CAN ONLY DO
ONE THING AND THAT ONE THING HAS
MADE HIM THE ONLY PRESIDENT TO
NEVER CROSS THE 50% THRESHOLD IN
APPROVAL RATINGS.
APPROVAL RATINGS. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>> YEAH.
>> YEAH. IT’S SORT OF -- REMEMBER THE
LAST SCENE OF "SCAR FACE."
HE’S UP THERE, BY HIMSELF AND --
I’M MAKING LIGHT OF IT A LITTLE
BIT, BUT YOU KNOW, I DON’T MEAN
TO.
TO. BECAUSE WHAT HE’S DOING TO GO TO
YOUR POINT AND TO GO TO
SOMETHING GENE SAID IS WHAT HE’S
DOING IS ABSOLUTELY TRYING TO --
I USE THIS WORD ADVISEDLY HE’S
PURIFYING HIS SUPPORT.
I KNOW THAT’S A CONTENTIOUS
THING TO SAY, BUT THAT’S --
LET’S BE HONEST HERE.
WHAT ELSE IS IT?
HE WAS ACTUALLY QUITE CLEAR AND
COHERENT YESTERDAY.
COHERENT YESTERDAY. THIS -- TO SENATOR TILLIS’
POINT, THIS WASN’T A TWEET.
THIS WAS A PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES STANDING ON WHAT I
THINK IT WAS THE NORTH LAWN OF
THE WHITE HOUSE GOING ON AT
GREAT LENGTH ABOUT HOW DULY
ELECTED CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
SHOULD LEAVE.
SHOULD LEAVE. THAT’S N A PASSING THING.
AND THE ONE THING -- THE ONE
THING WE KNOW HE UNDERSTANDS IS
ONGOING SURVIVAL IN TERMS OF
ATTENTION GETTING WHICH IS NOW
LATE IN HIS LIFE TURNED INTO
POWER GETTING.
POWER GETTING. AND THE ONE THING I WOULD SAY TO
HIM IF WE HAD ANY OPPORTUNITY
HERE AND WHAT I WOULD SAY TO THE
FOLKS -- BECAUSE ONE THING HE
SAID WAS RIGHT IS THE VOTERS
WILL DECIDE IS WE DON’T BUILD
MONUMENTS TO PEOPLE WHO CLOSE
DOORS.
DOORS. WE BUILD MONUMENTS TO PEOPLE WHO
OPEN THEM.
OPEN THEM. AND BECAUSE TO GO TO A PHRASE
YOU HAVE USED, BECAUSE HE’S A
POLITICAL DAY TRADER AND HE’S
BECOME NOW A RACIAL DAY TRADER,
THEY’RE NOT GOING TO BUILD
MONUMENTS TO HIM.
>> YEAH.
>> YEAH. THEY’RE NOT DOING TO VOTE FOR
HIM.
HIM. I MEAN, HE’S NOT GOING TO --
HE’LL NEVER GET TO 50%.
THIS IS -- THIS IS A BAD
POLITICAL MOVE AND OF COURSE
NOBODY IS ADVISING HIM TO DO
THIS.
THIS. HE’S DOING IT HIMSELF.
SO ANYWAY WE’LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS
THROUGHOUT THE WEEK AND WHEN WE
COME BACK, WE’LL HAVE MIKA’S
INTERVIEW WITH JOE BIDEN.
SHE QUESTIONED THE FORMER VP
ABOUT HIS LACKLUSTER DEBATE
PERFORMANCE AND ASKED WHAT IT
MIGHT MEAN FOR A POTENTIAL
MATCH-UP AGAINST DONALD TRUMP.
PLUS, BIDEN WEIGHS IN ON SOME OF
HIS DEMOCRATIC OPPONENTS AND
DETAILS FOR HIS PLAN FOR