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is the majority of the american people in favor of impeaching the president? i'm not sure. >> he's not sure. now we're joined by jonathan from "the washington post" and good evening, guys. jonathan, let's stipulate at the beginning here that we're not talking about some widespread rush to this. >> right. >> and yet we're kind of in a weird time, post eric cantor where this kind of discussion seems to correlate with the idea that eric cantor, who is mr. obstruction, wasn't anti-obama enough. >> yeah. it's a very strange thing, although the talk of impeachment has been going on since at least 2009, and sort of ramped back up again last year when republicans went out to town hall meetings and reports started coming out
that's what dick cheney is way out of the main stream. he's way out of the main stream of republican thinking at the time. remember, ronald reagan never launched anything like what we saw in iraq. >> jonathan, briefly, are there other conservatives who will tell them to pipe down? >> oh, sure. he's really at war with rand paul, even the ted cruzes aren't going to like him much. they have no interest in having dick cheney come out and be the face of the party. >> thank you both for joining me. as we go from youtube to tv and back again. coming up, why republicans are letting laura ingram call the shots and what you're not seeing at the world cup. and chipping away at the defenses of dan schneider and washington, d.c.'s controversial football team name. that's tonight. the me
overreaching executive, economic regulations, which conservatives don't like. you have something that scientists and environmentalists support, which conservatives are not happy about. so it could rip up the republican base and republicans are encouraging this. mitch mcconnell is going on the floor every day hammering the president over this. even some democrats in red states are not in favor of this regulation. so the real question is whether, in the next 3 1/2 months, nobody saw at this point that obamacare would lead to a shut dourn. the question is what happens in the next 3 1/2 months. if republicans want to continue in this for fund-raising, the question is whether republicans are going to follow through and put their money where their mouth is and demand that this goes. >> jonathan, go ahead. >> one of the things that we have to keep in mind, i think conservatives in congress, particularly the house, are feeling emboldened.
what i'm not calling a comeback of dick cheney? >> this is the last throes, if you will, of dick cheney. look, here is a man who purports to say that the president has allowed al qaeda to take a foothold in iraq. let's just revisit a little bit of history. before dick cheney led the decision to invade iraq, there was no al qaeda in iraq. he allowed al qaeda to get a foothold in iraq. >> not a lot of support. it's family members that want to be in these youtube videos, not a lot of other republicans. jonathan, you zeroed in on this "wall street journal" op-ed.
from "the washington post" and good evening, guys. jonathan, let's stipulate at the beginning here that we're not talking about some widespread rush to this. >> right. >> and yet we're kind of in a weird time, post eric cantor where this kind of discussion seems to correlate with the idea that eric cantor, who is mr. obstruction, wasn't anti-obama enough. >> yeah. it's a very strange thing, although the talk of impeachment has been going on since at least 2009, and sort of ramped back up again last year when republicans went out to town hall meetings and reports started coming out of congressman actively talking about the option of impeachment. they all talked about the fact that while they probably had the votes in the house to impeach the president, the problem was once those articles of impeachment go over to the
this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation. >> that was candidate obama's rousing closing riff in st. paul, minnesota on june 3, 2008 when he had essentially secured the nomination for democratic party. for president of the united states you will notice he was highlighting the areas of policy focus for future administration, affordable health care. recovery from financial crisis, addressing climate change, and ending the war in iraq. in fact, a provocative piece in "new york times" jonathan chase argues the president is putting the final piece of his domestic agenda in place. quoting chait a conservative view, one indicts him as the reagan of the left and the other as a hapless mediocrity. a jimmy carter redux. there is enormous room to debate but ineffectual seems as though
ended a war and secured our nation. >> that was candidate obama's rousing closing riff in st. paul, minnesota on june 3, 2008 when he had essentially secured the nomination for democratic party. you will notice he was highlighting the areas of policy focus for future administration, affordable health care. jonathan chase argues the president is putting the final piece of his domestic agenda in place. quoting chait a conservative view, one indicts him as the reagan of the left and the other as a hapless mediocrity. there is enormous room to debate but ineffectual seems as though
nation. >> that was candidate obama's rousing closing riff in st. paul, minnesota on june 3, 2008 when he had essentially secured the nomination for democratic party. you will notice he was highlighting the areas of policy focus for future administration, affordable health care. jonathan chase argues the president is putting the final piece of his domestic agenda in place. quoting chait a conservative view, one indicts him as the reagan of the left and the other as a hapless mediocrity. there is enormous room to debate but ineffectual seems as though it should be ruled out. agenda that people may or may not like has arguably been checked off.
part of what coates asked is, well, why are people mad if paul ryan when, after all, president obama says it? the fact is, we know why they're mad when paul ryan says it and not president obama. because there's an assumption about president obama's connection to, belief in, and love for the black community or black communities in a way that there's not for ryan. so how do you navigate that in a way that's careful and intellectually honest as a white writer? >> i put my own hypocrisy on the front page of my book. i said, i don't know any black people, so i'm going to find out why. i didn't write a book about race or black people, i wrote about myself. i wrote about school bussing in my high school. i wanted to understand where i came from. i wasn't writing about black people. i was writing about how race shaped my world. because that's what i was curious about. was, you know, i wasn't doing the sort of white man's burden. i'm going to go out and learn about this, and, you know, tell the moral of the story. and so, i think, you know, white people don't see themselves as
to talk about the fact that we're all implicated in structures and we're all trying to navigate them. but instead, it becomes a way to say, i know i'm a good person, so i don't have to listen to this critique. so, again, this theme of, not listening and hearing and engaging at the level of change, with what african-american folks are actually saying about the system, seems to be an enduring threat in this problem. >> okay, so part of what i hear yo you saying, you're not quite saying it, nor did mr. coates, but there is, tanner, a little bit of, if you are white and writing about blackness, you can, which no one is saying you can't, it's not like the n-word, which you're just not allowed to do. but that many african-americans are going to read with a suspicion about your writing, they're going to begin with a suspicion about your goals, and that you perhaps as a white writer, even if you see yourself as part of the multi-racial coalition of progressivism, will be held to a standard -- because