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Jesse: nbc news and msnbc have been running this sound bite from president trump all yesterday and all today, and it s totally taken out of context. this is what nbc news has played about donald trump talking about the civil war and then i ll explain what they cut out afterwards. president trump: robert e. lee was a great general. abraham lincoln developed a phobia. he couldn t beat robert e. lee. he was going crazy. robert e. lee was winning battle after battle after battle, and abraham lincoln came home and said i can t beat robert e. lee. he had all of these generals who looked great, they were top of their class at west point. they were the greatest people. ....
Jesse: nbc news and msnbc have been running this sound bite from president trump all yesterday and all today, and it s totally taken out of context. this is what nbc news has played about donald trump talking about the civil war and then i ll explain what they cut out afterwards. president trump: robert e. lee was a great general. abraham lincoln developed a phobia. he couldn t beat robert e. lee. he was going crazy. robert e. lee was winning battle after battle after battle, and abraham lincoln came home and said i can t beat robert e. lee. he had all of these generals who looked great, they were top of their class at west point. they were the greatest people. ....
Here s part of it. so robert e. lee was a great general, and abraham lincoln developed a phobia. he couldn t beat robert e. lee. he was going crazy. i don t know if you know this story. but robert e. lee was winning battle after battle after battle, and one day it was looking really bad. and lincoln just said, you hardly knew his name. and they said, don t take him. he s got a drinking problem. and lincoln said, i don t care what problem he has. you guys aren t winning. and his name was grant, general grant. [ cheers and applause ] and he went in, and he knocked the hell out of everyone. he really did. he had a serious problem, a serious drinking problem. ....
General. abraham lincoln developed a phobia. he couldn t beat robert e. lee. he was going crazy i don t know if you know this story, but robert e. lee was winning battle after battle, and abraham lincoln came home and said i can t beat robert e. lee? really? i don t recall that in any of, say, doris kearns books. it seems like in many of the president gives there are these comments that in another time we would have called them dog whistles or winking tore our racist and suddenly they re much more overt. we saw it during his comments about charlottesville. he s willing to step up to the line and praise esome from the civil war, and i think he ....
Very unpopular pension reform that has the left very fired up and very active. and i think you re looking at in the center of andy barr s district you have fayette county which is one of only two counties that went against president trump in the 2016 election. 120 counties, 118 went for him, but fayette county he lost by about ten points. so you have a fired-up democratic base, an urban center in the middle that has a strong liberal background, and it makes it more close. i do think yes, go ahead. leland: the president s been making good on his promises to the campaign for the people who support him. he s got a long memory when it comes to those issues of loyalty. this sound bite from last night, lebanon, ohio, as the president was on the stump caught his eye. he drank a little bit too much. [laughter] you know who i m talking about, right? so robert e. lee was a great general. robert e. lee was winning battle after battle after battle, and abraham lincoln came home, he said, i can ....