Thingt Second Thing News Today

And said he wouldnt tolerate it. its now 18 months later, pretty much from that moment when brian did that thing, hes not taken a stand like that ever since and there have been again for repeated provocations of a racial kind by president trump and for reasons that we have talked about ad nauseum on this show, republican leaders have basically decided that, a, its in their somehow and weird ideological or policy interests to look the other way about all the deprivations of the president. >> john...

>> all right. peter nicholas, wall street journal, thank you very much. absolutely fascinating interview. we greatly appreciate you being her to share all of the interesting contents with us. also, admiral stavridis, let us just say, thank you for your service, for all you have done for this country throughout your life. what you continue to do. we greatly appreciate it. let me also, i just want to say, as far as service goes, just for our viewers, benjamin had a great idea before the christmas ...

A little maturity f. he shows a little bit of bipartisan leadership, you start thinking, if he goes in this direction, he can be in the mid-40s in every poll. and then the next day, hell make a racist remark or do something that undercuts it all. why does he do that? >> as with so many things with trump, you have to venture out of the political analysis. you have to get to psychological analysis, i dont mean a weird psychological analysis. he seems to enjoy more the visceral intense reaction tha...

Country, mike pence, how do you not come out and immediately condemn this? not three days later after you talked through it. but immediately condemn this language? how do you not do that? lets focus on paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, how do they do that? >> i will say, joe, to your initial comment about this, this is the kind of thing your grandfather says when hes old and losing it in front of the television. thats true if your grandfather is a racist, its not ebs grandfather that talks like tha...

Ignores the evidence that immigrants that come to america from nigeria actually have a higher education level than americans. so there you go, willie, more ignorance spewing from a president who i thought was going to spend this week trying to prove that hes fit for office and he hasnt lost a step mentally, but these bizarre rantings and ravings sound ill say it sounds like grandpa sitting in front of the tv set when hes getting old and losing it and the sort of thing, you cant say that, grandpa...

Millennials who have been bolting away from the republican party because of this president are doing it specifically for this reason and so now, you know, youve got, you know, a year-and-a-half, three out of four millennials voting for democrats in the election and finally, john, and of course this is perhaps the most shocking thing to me, because we have learned over the past year that donald trump will use any inflammatory racist language for political gain. of course it keeps him at 33%. the ...

Where trump seemed to suggest he could separate this process, well go with daca, that folks thought he was soft, he was going soft, going towards the democrats side, democratic side. here he is throwing a bone to his base this rabbit base. he suddenly comes out in some sophisticate way as hard on immigration in some ways scapegoating these nations. thats the first thing t. second thing is this, the immigration debate has always carried with it an undertone of racism. the immigration debate, no m...