to him as some sort of attempt at unifying, you know, even day, not necessarily unifying figure. i m trying to figure out which one of these rabbit holes to go down with you, andrea. i do think there is a little bit of political schizophrenia here with the president when it comes to immigration. the guy we saw on wednesday, in that 54-minute meeting, doesn t sound like the person that lindsey graham and dick durbin met with yesterday. he s clearly spooked by his base, right? if there is one thing you know, it s like if he s making ann coulter unhappy, the rest of the republican party feels a little more uncomfortable. if ann coulter is starting to get happier about the president s remarks on immigration, that s making everybody else in the party uncomfortable. i think he s personally struggling with this immigration issue because he fears that the
but there is also to me the fact that he it s not just him, there are people who are currently working overtime in alabama to justify their support for roy moore. i mean, you really got to take a step back. this is a guy we saw in the interview, family values, family integrity, the integrity of women and children because of bathroom bills and gay marriage. it is remarkable to watch an entire structural of ideology built around the sanctity of family and purity and protection come behind this individual. well, right. i think on the one hand, it shows how rickety it is and how situational it is and to some extent, the there are two things that i think are fundamental here, right? there s both race and the fact that roy moore, you know, in addition to being a three accurate, is also somebody who opposed taking segregationist language out of the alabama constitution, who just the other day was talking about alabama being on the right side of the civil war.
but there is also to me the fact that he it s not just him, there are people who are currently working overtime in alabama to justify their support for roy moore. i mean, you really got to take a step back. this is a guy we saw in the interview, family values, family integrity, the integrity of women and children because of bathroom bills and gay marriage. it is remarkable to watch an entire structural of ideology built around the sanctity of family and purity and protection come behind this individual. well, right. i think on the one hand, it shows how rickety it is and how situational it is and to some extent, the there are two things that i think are fundamental here, right? there s both race and the fact that roy moore, you know, in addition to being a three accurate, is also somebody who opposed taking segregationist language out of the alabama constitution, who just the other day was talking about alabama being on the right side of the civil war. and so and who believes i
republicans pay for that cruelty or indifference to the real life situation of people who are suffering. isn t that why people have so little trust in the way things work in government? their real life stories very rarely matter when it comes to how things get done. they very rarely make it to national attention these small stories. donald trump brought all of that to the table. he carries that with him. that was one of the things that first started to animate a lot of folks to what he was saying. he talked about the impact that tariffs like nafta would have on their businesses and on their jobs. you lost your job because of this agreement and because of what the government did. that narrative is still a very potent narrative which is president we saw works very well. republicans still have no anecdote to that. that will be one of the biggest
he still won. i are agree. he won under these strange circumstances, lots of things all going in one direction and you reported in the entire campaign as i was chronicling as dozens of other reporters were, this is the guy we saw for the previous two years from his announcement on the escalator talking they re sending rapists and things of that sort. very few surprises from donald trump except that he is entirely consistent with his past self. the surprise, i think, has been from the republicans in congress. they have not stood up more yet for the standards that predated trump and that we hope will post date him too. and the open question, which nobody has an answer for, frankly, and if you say you do, i don t know where you re getting it from is whether or not he can survive any of this. james fal lows, thank you so much for joining us. yeah. i m not going to make you answer that question. don t worry. go ahead. thank you. see you later. thanks so much for coming on.