well said. 59% of the americans approve of the decision to normalize relations with cuba. david axelrod, senior adviser to president obama and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine, both are msnbc political analysts. david, you re the expert on the legacy question, but in terms of the environment, a big issue with the president, marriage equality, clearly health care issues, all kinds of issues, climate this is a big one in terms of reaching out and trying to bring the world closer together. how do you see it? well, i see it as the president moving america into the 21st century. you know, he was born the year that we broke off diplomatic relations with cuba. that was 53 years ago. the idea was to isolate cuba and change its policies. it also was a time when cuba was a client state of the soviet union, an outpost 90 miles from
kerry will travel to havana to raise our flag over our embassy. this is what change looks like. well said. 59% of the americans approve of the decision to normalize relations with cuba. david axelrod, sewn yor adviser to president obama and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine both are msnbc political analysts. david, you re the expert on the legacy question, but in terms of the environment, a big issue with the president, marriage equality, clearly health care issues, all kinds of issues climate change he s concerned about trade. this is a big one in terms of reaching out and trying to bring the world closer together. how do you see it? well i see it as the president moving america into the 21st century. you know he was born the year that we broke off diplomatic relations with cuba. that was 53 years ago. the idea was to isolate cuba and
while in white house there would be no indictment? is his strategy going to be to simply deal with once i discovered how bad my administration was then i immediately did what i had to do to fix it? well, it experience seems that way, lawrence. i mean, i ll let you judge bloovs bloov that was a silly question, but it seemed to me to be the question raised by these indictments. why is it christie has fallen in these new hampshire polls? it is questions that has been raised by this conduct that has ultimately proven to be criminal. while he does say on one hand look, i led on this, i stepped out there, i was honest, wasn t the fact that this happened at all a failure in leadership? i think there are questions about whether or not you know, how how is it that he was playing the role of the strong leader if he didn t even know that this was going on,
we re just finding out now, but it looks like labor got wiped out of their sort of socialist heart. it used to be a strong hold. and that is a sign that the fortunes of evolution that we saw in the independence referendum are speeding up and the country is fragmenting. and the government that we formed is also committed to a referendum on leading europe, as well. you could see the uk split, europe split. this is momentum stuff. talk about that, this possible referendum. cameron has promised a referendum on leaving the european union. against his better wishes. i mean, he was forced into it by the forces of english nationalism. the uk independence party, they forced him in that direction. he s in a strong position. clinging on to power is something very few expect him to do. he s going to have to hold that referendum. it s a nervy time. how does he handle that? does he campaign against that referendum? it s a good question.
oh, the gun is smoking like crazy. the language couldn t be you know, jordan sharp, because they say fair preponderance of the evidence, people are saying, oh, wait, that s not proof. yes, it is. in american courtrooms, that is the standard of proof for everything that is not a criminal case. if this was civil litigation, if the nfl was suing him, they won. yes, it is. unfortunately for tom brady, i think the legacy question now comes into play. steve, i know you re a big patriots fan. you know i m from seattle. we have to kind of go out of here. i look at it like, okay, this is going this is probably going on across the whole league. and, you know, a lot of teams are doing this. a lot of quarterbacks are doing this. some of them happened to get caught during the playoffs. and, obviously, the pin has fallen. so i m disappointed, though, on a bigger scale in the league because they have taken this and they have just continually drawn