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Address. this is the opposite of what republicans wanted to see happen after 2012 when the party said we need to be more inclusive. we need to stop with the negative rhetoric. tone it down a bit. donald trump is totally controlling every news cycle. hillary clinton who has been covered ad nauseam forever, even she is struggling to break through with her policy proposals because donald trump is sucking in all the oxygen. everyone else is having to react to what he is doing. it is more bombastic a...

The electorate sending him a tone it down message? >> you cant use the word finally in the july before an election that doesnt -- the primaries dont begin until next february. >> this feels like its been going on forever. >> doesnt it though? the thing is that first of all, a month is a year and a year is a lifetime in politics. donald trump is running so hot political campaigns are a three or five act. like a shakesperian five-act drama. theyre not an eight-second vine. you know? this is like o...

Luther king gave his "i have a dream" speech. he was the youngest speaker that day. he was beaten and arrested atmosphere frequently and recently than anyone else who spoke that day. he worried everyone the most that day. he writes now in the new book about the frantic up to the last second appeals to johnson lose for that speech to please tone it down. and he did tone it down a little. >> robert john lewis.

He became the head fof student nonviolent coordinating committee and at age 23 he was the man would spoke just before martin luther king gave his "i have have a dream" speech. he was 23 years old, the youngest speaker that day and he was the one who had been beaten and arrested more frequently and more recently than anybody else who spoke that day. he was the man whose speech oried everyone the most that day. and he writes now in the new book about the frantic up to the last second appeals to jo...

Day. he was beaten and arrested atmosphere frequently and recently than anyone else who spoke that day. he worried everyone the most that day. he writes now in the new book about the frantic up to the last second appeals to johnson lose for that speech to please tone it down. and he did tone it down a little. . >> robert john lewis.

What this was like start to finish as people tried to get you to run for president and hes a great storyteller and he has a great memory about things that happened and what people were saying at the time and he went through it. but youre absolutely right. hes got this kind of wide-eyed view of it all as he talks about it. >> that is, mika, isnt that one of the things we found early on, good friends with chris, talked with him a good bit about this, and there was just this contrast between chris ...

Create the impression that obama and the mean democrats want to take away your guns. very specifically, no one is talking about that. no one wants to do that. and in fact, as i mentioned, the presidents view of the second amendment is really quite conservative. he doesnt want to take your guns. he just wants to make this place safe so we dont have newtown massacres every year. >> well, i dont hear democrats talking like this. theres no comparative vernacular we can use that come from the democra...

And the mean democrats want to take away your guns. very specifically, no one is talking about that. no one wants to do that. and in fact, as i mentioned, the presidents view of the second amendment is really quite conservative. he doesnt want to take your guns. he just wants to make this place safe so we dont have newtown massacres every year. >> well, i dont hear democrats talking like this. theres no comparative vernacular we can use that come from the democrats on this. it will be interestin...

Hes got a bigger problem. romney needs to convince the people in ohio, michigan, and virginia that the economy is terrible there as well. republican governors in all of those states are enjoying better than average unemployment. these republican governors are in a tight spot. they could be honest about their economic success or lie for the candidate romney. lets turn to ben, national press secretary for the obama campaign. ben, good to have you with us tonight. >> nice to be with you. >> to be f...

Unemployment. >> if romney wants rick scott to stop talking about floridas economic success under obama, hes got a bigger problem. romney needs to convince the people in ohio, michigan, and virginia that the economy is terrible there as well. republican governors in all of those states are enjoying better than average unemployment. these republican governors are in a tight spot. they could be honest about their economic success or lie for the candidate romney. lets turn to ben, national press se...