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About this situation. >> tell me. >> he is really into attacking the "new york times." and it strikes me of its a way that he can unilaterally -- its an objective paper. but if he attacks it unilaterally, its a way of communicating theyre the bad guys and on the other side. he has the power to cast you guys as essentially biased. >> we are the foil and the whole media is the foil for him. hes a competing outlet. i think well see this for the rest of his presidency. when he wants to target or hav...

As donald trump works to staff up his incoming administration, hes under fire from some celebrities. joining me on my panel -- the author of the 60s. years of hope, days of rage. i cant wait to have this conversation. michael, before we have this conversation, do you think he cares that he has a contentious relationship with hollywood? or does it really matter? >> no, i dont think he cares, i think he invites and courts the relationship with hollywood. that said, he has a great relationship with...

Think he invites and courts the relationship with hollywood. that said, he has a great relationship with hollywood. he knows all the moguls. its a weird kind of thing of him being very tight with this community while at the same time, making it his foil and his enemy. >> hes at the center now of this culture war with hamilton, friday with the vice president, and saturday night live, and then sunday was the american music awards. i want to get your reaction. >> first of all, i find it remarkable ...

>> we have been headed in a certain direction now that presidents can go around the trshl media. barack obama would do videos to the public and was on twitter in a different way. the job of reporters is to report. donald trump used the media as a foil throughout his campaign. hell keep doing so as president. thats his right. our job is to report. >> one quick question to katy about this routine where he tweeted out that hes so praising of the leader of brexit, one of the first foreigners to visi...

Totally out of touch with the reality of working class people. you just spoke very loudly and clearly to a profound change of direction. a prime scream reallal scream a. >> with this as a backdrop, with this state of the culture and state of the economy, we had the perfect foil in hillary clinton. she represented all of those things to the voters who voted for donald trump. >> exactly. the trump message in the final couple weeks of the campaign was youre being screwed by a rigged economy with cr...

Color as a foil during the entire campaign. >> the other thing the trump campaign always understood is there is no such thing as a local event, especially in the trump campaign. theyre all nationally televised events. when youre going to talk about somalis in minnesota, thats being heard everywhere else you want it to be heard. >> what happened tonight, a repudiation of lets discuss 2012 rnc autopsy report. there is a vision, one that i subscribe to, if you want to win a presidential election, i...

Thats the part that you dont know. >> seems to me, well look at the numbers, seemed to me the clinton side kind of got out the vote. more people came out. >> conflicting information today in terms of the numbers of people that turned out. we dont yet know. starting to look like it may be an overall low turnout election. >> what trump did, you used the way he used somali immigrants as a foil. he was talking to people of duluth, in the hinter lands of minnesota who have a different idea about minn...

Like the fact shes a woman, and they dont like how donald trump treats women. >> chris is still smarting from that segment. by the way. so ana. very have been more on display, sexism or female empowerment? >> i think both. i think the sexism has been on display on the other side. hillary clinton could not have asked for a better foil to the woman aspect than having donald trump on the other side. a guy who is a pig. who has been accused of groping women. who has been accused of sticking his tong...

More importantly the why. why do we suddenly see this guy who is not only following the script pretty much to a t, when he goes off, hes not veering much off message but hes not picking up his device and sending tweets. hes really, really focused. youre an old football player, wolf. ill give you the analogy. they say hes been operating in the red zone for so long but now he sees the end zone and thats the way that he functions and its the end and he feels like he wants to do well and he can do w...

Conservative party. i dont think they fully thought through what that stands for, but theyll have to grapple with more than just donald trump as the foil. theyll have figure outside what they stand for beyond that. >> jennifer, to me, you talked about not putting the genie back in the bottle. it does seem to me that all of these deep structural fissures in the party will be spackled over by anti-clinton hatred. the thing that unites everyone. the o thing that unites everyone singeing off the sam...