this surge of people at the border who aren t vaccinated and who were coming in from god knows where in the world. we know it is not just central americans. will: many have posited, including many of us on the couch the reason for the administration s approach to illegal immigration way it is because it is potential voting constituency. look who is carved out of the vaccine mandate, voting constituencies. united states postal service is carved out of the federal government mandate. various teachers unions had caveats and carveouts. entire executive government branch, certain departments and constituencies don t have to follow their mandate. illegal immigrants are another group. they are not concerned about a vaccine mandate. rachel: having fall out because vaccine mandates are sparking resignations in different places. one is in hospital. new york up state hospital says they re actually going to pause baby deliveries because some of
the candidates as if kamala harris and cory booker both of whom i know. i know cory very well. as if they re the black candidates as opposed to people running with a policy agenda that can impact particular communities. black communities who are voting constituencies and acting and making decisions based upon their own needs in their own communities. as you listen to the conversations surrounding the candidates, does it sound different? it sounds different. i don t think that cory orca ma kamala or senator harris or booker is muting their racial identity. i think in so many ways they re following abrams lead. she did not leave the particularity of who she is in order to run. she came into the election as a black woman. she ran on an agenda without having to put that aside. i think what we saw with kamala harris announcing on mlk day and
and about selling that in the 2018 midterm environment. if we circle it back around the president is also talking about the tax bill. so to me none of that suggests a particularly ambitious agenda for the rest of the year. it shows a lot about what they believe they want to campaign ongoing into november of this year. thank you so much. with us onset is tom brokaw. you watched that speech. did the president, when we talk about immigration make it easier or harder to get do a deal? i think he made it harder for democrats to come across the line. he is holding good cards. he has the house and the senate. in his constituency it s what they wanted to hear out there. it is all about the future of voting constituencies.
this already but it was a wake-up call. you cannot build a global order that is benefitting a lot of people. and let s keep in mind it is. there are literally hundreds of millions of people in china that were at starvation levels of subsistence who can essentially work and drive cars. so this global order has conferred big benefits on hundreds of millions of people. you cannot construct something that kwerz benefits and hammers essentially the middle class that makes up the voting constituencies across the entire first world that are the most powerful governments on earth with their fingers on the trigger. those people say, yeah, that s all right. you cannot construct an order that does that. and i think one of the things i ll add in terms of that fragility, particularly here, that really is more of a 2017 thing in terms of where we find out just how fragile that is. but this story about trump having his own sort of personal
that makes up the voting constituencies across the entire first world that are the most powerful governments on earth with their fingers on the trigger. those people say, yeah, that s all right. you cannot construct an order that does that. and i think one of the things i ll add in terms of that fragility, particularly here, that really is more of a 2017 thing in terms of where we find out just how fragile that is. but this story about trump having his own sort of personal security team, that could be really problematic it seems to me. like that to me is the scary and it s the thing where and you don t mean problematic in the twitter sense of a pop song with bad politics. we very rarely contemplate the idea that the president there s no one really to show up and say to the president you can t do that. that s right. and we ve never contemplated that much because we think that our norms and our traditions are keeping people in their lanes. but when push comes to shove