Corollary we also have to do a cultural analysis and we have to try to understand and explain how trump s constant lying has corroded, has made toxic the information system in this country. it s not him alone, of course, we have all these massive changes in media platforms and all of these other things going on, but at that primary summit of information in this democracy, the white house, we can t trust anything. in fact, the only thing we can trust is it will probably be untrue what they tell us. and it s a whole system of it. it s not just him, but then you go you know, now we know we have the national enquirer and you have fox news and, yes, you have this whole chain of right wing messaging machine and we are now at a point where, look, if the function of democracy cannot function, we all know
Is firing up his base, he is crisscrossing certain areas of the country and trying to help out candidates who want his political fire and mojo behind them, you ve got a messaging machine running now on the issue of how we spend our money and immigration, what does that do to the opposition? i think it may embolden the opposition. the democrats are basically daring president trump and the republican party to shut down the government in the fall, they think this would be a political gift. why? because republicans control the entire government at this point. nearly in the senate, they control the house, we know they control the presidency, so i think that is why when you hear president trump say this, you get that response from mitch mcconnell and paul ryan that say wait a second, pump the brakes, this isn t going to happen. this doesn t help our candidates come out give you a great example pennsylvania last night,
Concerns weren t taken seriously at fox. how might he change the messaging machine at this white house? the federal government has been subject to a lot of undulation over this year and a half of the presidency. there is no communications director in earnest at this point. what input can he put on that comm shop? i thought the washington post did a good job of reconstructing what kind of interviews will he be giving. he doesn t give interviews, he s a study in careful uselessness, except where he was throwing an elbow or an shiv on behalf of the network. shine is not known as a voluble guy in talking to the press. secondly, if you look at the top opinion monitors in fox, fox & friends, he s been comfortable with the pugelistic edge.
Of the beef that various presidents have had with the media over time or the beef that they ve had with people investigating them. what seems different to me is the conservative media messaging machine that has turned this into not just a political stance, it s turned it into a cultural stance for conservatives. does that have historic precedence or is that new? it s something that nixon was desperate to have and we know that richard nixon met with roger ailes of all people and talked to him about establishing a tv network. nixon would have loved to have that in watergate. in the case now it s emboldening donald trump. a little late for nixon. the other thing, rachel, is today was a day that threatened america s faith in government.
Who would argue that he almost single handedly amounted a campaign to kill immigration reform when the bill wound its way through the senate. like, he was essentially a one-man messaging machine. and we saw how toxic that became for so many republicans, marco rubio among them, for example, so it makes a lot of sense that once he saw how this was unfolding, he pushed back and now here we are with having this fall apart. matt s piece in the new york times this morning is deep-diving into who stephen miller is, where he came from, his background, totally worth the lead. kasie, does congress get a daca deal done on this? you have the immigration priority list coming out but the push for tax reform. you have, by the way, all reporting that the president is leading to decertifying the iran deal and kicking that back to congress. they have, like, 29 actual working days before the end of the year. he s going to decertify the iran deal and may want to give bob corker a phone call. corre