and now you can try it yourself by clicking that button below. and all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. back in 1971 pat bu canon wrote a memo to president nixon arguing nixon s path to re-election was via waging ruthless culture wars. nixon buchanan argued, he said we will, quote, cut the democratic party and the country in half. my view is we would have far the larger half. donald trump now has the same strategy but with an amazing wrinkle which is that he has the smaller half. donald trump is rerunning the nixon play book but inside of a silent majority, he has allowed minority. but and this is the craziest part of all, it s been successful so far. he is running the country despite receiving just 46% of
and an msnbc news exclusive ben collins, behind the most viewed news concept on facebook and youtube. and now you can try it yourself by clicking that button below. and all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. back in 1971 pat bu canon wrote a memo to president nixon arguing nixon s path to re-election was via waging ruthless culture wars. nix nixon buchanan argued, he said we will, quote, cut the democratic party and the country in half. my view is we would have far the larger half. donald trump now has the same strategy but with an amazing wrinkle which is that he has the smaller half. donald trump is rerunning the nixon play book but inside of a silent majority, he has allowed minority. but and this is the craziest part of all, it s been successful so far. he is running the country
rosenbergs to the electric chair for spying. and roger stone was involved with guccifer who says he was in communication with this hacker, he seems to see donald trump as rerunning the nixon play book but with a better nixon in his view. do you see around donald trump anyone in that orbit who would say you know what, mr. president, this is a terrible idea and it s unconstitutional. i don t and i want to call attention to anthony scaramucci when he said cutout. i would have a cutout go take that meeting for me. the use of that word shows this is a person who is used to trying to get around laws. i would have an emissary take the meeting, i would have my assistant take the meeting but to say cutout means we re trying to hide what we re doing here but i would hide it and stupid don jr. didn t hide it. that s the level of person you re dealing with. beyond the circle, beyond the coven. what scares me is we talk about being a nation of laws but we re only as strong as the people we