Thought, the famous verizon ad. Can you hear me now . Good. Can you hear me now . Thats where we land. Cell Service Needs to fall back. If people are using that trick to get off the phone with the president , that is amazing. Works. Liz, thanks for being on the show. This other guy, thank you for being on the show. Thats our show sp. Have a great thanksgiving friday. At 6 00 p. M. , we have our speci special, russia on trial, check that out. And hardball starts now. Trump stands alone. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews up in boston. For weeks, republicans is have distanced themselves from roy moore. Theyve pulled endorsements and urged him to drop out. And many have said they believe his accusers. Lets watch. Do you believe these allegations to be true . Youre talking about he said 40 years ago, this did not happen. So, you know. And i do have to say, 40 years is a long time. Hes run eight races and this has never come up. So 40 years is a long time. Well, both new yo
swing under t luther strange the bus. this president is always for himself and will go where the winds blow. at the end of the day he wants to be on the winning side. will he make the statements and take the alcohols he needs to take throughout this until election day and after the election in order to be able to position himself as a winner and not a loser. all right. i want to also ask you i ll start with you, robert, about this back and forth between the president and lavar ball. latest tweets call him, quote, a poor man s version of don king and adds an ungrateful fool. are you interpreting any racial overtones there? let me step back and say it s a strange coincidence that the president has had these twitter rants with people of color. i also find it very much of a coincidence that the president has the temperament, if you will, to push back and use the race card, if you lrk look back,
court. these are things that have long term impact. and is he engaging the in politics of distraction by, like, getting into a whole twitter fight with lavar ball, the father of one of the ucla players? let me show you. he calls the man an ungrateful fool. certainly not presidential language. because the man said that he didn t know whether trump played a key role in getting his son in the other two releases or not. and he compares them to a poor man s don king without the hair. i always thought donald trump liked don king. he has him down had his florida home and a frequent guest. but putting that aside, where are we when we see this kind of distraction and distortion? let me show you his tweet. he says in the tweet and a tweet of distraction that now that the three basketball players are out
basketball players recently detained in china for shoplifting for failing to thank the president sufficiently for intervening on the players behalf. this morning the president tweeted, it wasn t the white house, it wasn t the state department, it wasn t father lavar s so-called people on the ground in china that got his son out of a long-term prison sentence, it was me! too bad. just think, lavar, you could have spent the next five to ten years on thanksgiving with your son in china, but no nba contract to support you. but remember, lavar, shoplifting is not a small thing, especially in china. it s a big deal. ungrateful fool. michelle is columnist for the new york times . it seems to be everything you need to know about the president s theory of the law, the theory of justice and theory of law and order and crime and all of that is there contained in the 12 hours that he essentially endorses roy moore against doug jones and rants at lavar ball about his son s shoplifting. right, o
got his son out of prezzen sentence. it was me, too bad. lavar is just a poor man s version of don king just without the hair. just think, lavar, you could have spent another five to ten years during thanksgiving with your son in china. remember shoplifting is not a little thing. it s a really big deal especially in china. ungrateful fool. speaking of sports, the president continued. the nfl is now thinking of a new idea keeping teams in the locker room during the national anthem next season. that s almost as bad as kneeling. when will the highly paid commissioner finally get tough and smart? this issue is killing your league. and that is how the president started his day in mar almar-a-n