friends of ours, allies of ours. great britain, australia, countries like ours. so we know there are ways to prevent it. and, of course, what s also routine is that somebody somewhere will comment and say obama politicize this issue. well, this is something we should politicize. it is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic. joining us now, eugene robinson, msnbc political analyst and charlie pierce, writer at large for esquire. charlie is also the league political blogger for esquire.com. the president feared routine in
robinson, msnbc political analyst and charlie pierce, writer at large for esquire. charlie is also the league political blogger for esquire.com. the president feared routine in this. he fears exactly what i fear when one of these things happen. how do we come on and treat this as something that is not routine even though it has tajic ily become routine. and the president s comments are far from routine. you re right. it was a very powerful speech by the president. a lot of it seemed to be extemporaneous and from the heart. the way he worked through this issue and the way he sort of appealed in a very raw way, i think, for people just to listen and pay attention and not let it be routine i thought was extremely effective. the one step he didn t take was
charlie is also the league political blogger for esquire.com. the president feared routine in this. he fears exactly what i fear when one of these things happen. how do we come on and treat this as something that is not routine even though it has tajicily become routine. and the president s comments are far from routine. you re right. it was a very powerful speech by the president. a lot of it seemed to be extemporaneous and from the heart. the way he worked through this issue and the way he sort of appealed in a very raw way, i think, for people just to listen and pay attention and not let it be routine i thought was extremely effective. the one step he didn t take was to lay out specifics about what we should do. he said we shouldn t take these
she ran hewlett-packard into the ground. i said, i will not say it. that her stock value tanked. that she laid off tens of thousands of people. and she got viciously fired. i said, i will not say that. that s donald trump just moments ago in hampton, new hampshire, talking about carly fiorina. fact check, largely true, basically about her record at hewlett-packard. joining me now, michelle goldberg from the nation and paul pierce, politics blogger for esquire.com, in iowa, of course, in clear lake, iowa, about a half hour away from the des moines state fair, there is the wing dings dinner, where hillary clinton has been addressing the crowd. we re going to hear also from bernie sanders, martin o malley, and lincoln chafee. michelle, i find the fight that s happening between trump supporters and the rest of the republican party about political correctness fascinating, because they are being devoured by a monster of their own creation.
persuading to people who don t believe the koch brothers to be awesome. it definitely was speaking directly to the base. how does that counter what harry reid is trying to do which is trying to speak to the larger public about who the koch brothers are in his estimation? well, i think that, you know, there s a fine line between, you know, rousing the rebel and educating the base. i think harry is doing a little bit of both. the difference between the two, of course, is harry is starting from a deep hole because he doesn t have the megaphone and the right wing media bubble to magnify and strengthen the conjuring words like benghazi or alinsky or a.c.o.r.n. he doesn t have the media infrastructure yet to do that, but i think he is trying. charles pierce from esquire. coming up, there are rare moments in tv when the perfect guest for the story happens to be the host of the show. chris hayes will join us live from paternity leave. don t go away. but there are some places even mr. c