Peter Bake E News Today

You were getting primaried within the next year or two, to protect your job, its what these people do for a living. there just arent that many heroes in the world, are not -- the same way they will not speak out when he gives false equivalencies or not. basic 101. how could they not? theyre not. two ways trump goes. criminally. not politically, criminally or through an election and thats the game. hes not going politically because senators are going to want to keep their jobs and they know where...

Baiting that trump engages in, and the kind of, you know, routine serial lying that he engages in, bleeds down into his administration. and so you have a nice churchgoing man like mike pence whos comfortable sitting there lying. >> what were seeing there also is a continuation of a pattern where trump will say something without basis and fact, and the rest of the administration, rest of the white house scrambles to try to make it so. the lie comes first then they try to justify it. weve seen tha...

Appears to have inspired at least in part by a report on fox news. included attacks on democrats, immigrants and foreign countries. thats the media-run state for you once again." peter, there are so many examples of this and julies piece today is fantastic at diagramming where this started, where it went when donald trump started tweeting about it and just to pick up on jonathans point, how the government, how the state, tried to make this fox-inspired conspiracy theory true. >> well, thats exac...

Agenda. its to break down americas critical thinking capabilities. it is the annihilation of truth. and this -- what we are watching is extraordinary. and i know weve talked about this before, and theres kind of a numbing effect, and so people go, oh, my goodness, you know, the president seems to be lying at an even faster rate because the president realizes that if he floods the zone, if he just follows one lie up after another, we dont know how to handle it. we dont know how to keep pace with ...

Peter bake e do you think he knows some of the great nationalists of all-time included hitler, every dictator pleaded for their constituents, if you can call them that, their subjects in the case, and others, to sort of harken to their nationalist impulses. >> well, you know, i think what he -- theres a reason other presidents dont use the phrase, nationalists, to describe themselves. they use a safer term, patriot. patriotism is something mostly people can agree on is safe politically, a more u...