thinks, especially an isolated adversary. the north koreans cut a deal and go back to a nuclear missile program. if i m gaming president trump, i m looking the this aat this a he doesn t think he could afford to say the talks with north korea aren t going anywhere. if i m the north koreans, i m saying what s the incentive to show up at the table. the president is going to say we re doing fine anyway. i think the north koreans are sitting nicely. let me ask you this for joe biden who sat out the holiday weekend, wasn t on the campaign trail, there s that, which is interesting because he s got a lot of name recognition. i wonder if the president slamming his iq is siding with the north korean dictator is helpful for joe biden. since the president saw polling show joe biden beating him in an election, he has been focussed on joe biden in tweet ater tweet after tweet, and
the final hours of the election we talked about aaron he probably wasn t going to vote because he wasn t inspired enough by the candidates. the non-voters are the largest political party in the country. uh-huh. trump got 63 million votes. hillary 66 million. non-voters in the last election, over 100 million and usually mid-terms over 120 million. they re the largest political force. what i would say to aaron and other non-voters is, first of all, i understand why a lot of you don t vote. i understand why you think the system is corrupt. it is. i understand why you think the candidates sometimes just look like a bunch of old party hacks. they are. i understand why you re fed up and especially where i come from in the midwest why you re so
38% raced frantically around the country holding 30 campaign rallies, saying unhinged and increasingly desperate lies. pre-existing conditions are safe. okay? the wall is under construction. the democrat plan would destroy medicare. socialist health care. where private plans are outlawed, and abolished. a nightmare of gridlock. poverty and chaos. a lot of people say, i wonder who started that caravan? when he wasn t on the campaign trail, the 38% president used the white house to encourage u.s. troops to commit illegal killings. they want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. we re going to consider it. i told them: it a rifle. this is what endangered republican candidates had to listen to when donald trump came to campaign for them.
i wanted to ask you if i got it right. first of all, i have to tell you that i don t i am not familiar with the name raymond struther who was a key player in your account. i m not even sure if i m saying his name right. am i? i think since you re of tender years you would not have been around in the hart campaign. there is no exact counterpart. if there were a if you could think of some benign version of steve bannon, that would be the kind of somebody who has prominent in the campaign, and he s somebody i had covered hart in the days when he was a leading military affairs expert. i wasn t on the campaign trail in 87 and 88 because i was in japan. i recognized his name when i started hearing about the story earlier this year. so, the basic kernel of your reporting, lee at water who had worked for george bush, on his death bed as he s making up atoning for his sins and talking
he s somebody i had covered hart in the days when he was a leading military affairs expert. i wasn t on the campaign trail in 87 and 88 because i was in japan. but i had known hart and strother earlier in the 80s. i recognized his name when i started hearing about the story earlier this year. so, the basic kernel of your reporting, lee atwater who had worked for george h.w. bush, on his deathbed as he s making up atoning for his sins and talking about wrongs he had committed in his career, on his deathbed he confesses he concocted this whole plot. he tells his counterpart from the 1988 campaign, this man mr. strother who worked on the heart campaign tells him he did it. but raymond strother doesn t pass this information on himself for another couple of decades. right. i think it is important to recognize, this is all in the realm of contingent history. one of the reasons that raymond strother didn t tell his close