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play ball. what's important about this, in order to keep the lights on and keep the government funded, the republicans must get eight democratic senators to come along with them before the end of the week on whatever the government spending bill is. that's going to be very hard. there's a good chance they'll punt this down the road, come to the end of the week, they don't have the votes and they'll say, let's pass a temporary, one week, and come back and fight again. >> so they'll kick the can down the road. >> kick the can. >> the first 100 days are usually a honeymoon period for most presidents. is it unusual to you that he hasn't accomplished more, or do you think he would have accomplished more in his first 100 days? >> well, i must say the old idea of honeymoons has been gradually disappearing and donald trump has had the roughest welcome and come to power when things are the most polarized.
we can't keep this going. i'm just encouraging people right now, it's okay to operate on your raw energy and emotion because our voices must be her. look at trump's tweet you just showed. he's talking about just had a great presidential election and now these protesters are out here. very unfair. very unfair. you know that he's rattled already? i mean, this should be the happiest week of his life and he's up, oh! >> it's a remarkable thing. people all across the ideological spectrum were taken aback by the tweet -- >> all protesters be honored by this that already the thin-skinned donald trump. imagine what happens when the crowds double tonight and triple tomorrow night. because that's what's going to happen. >> what about people who say what you are advocating will only raise the temperature and heighten the country that is a polarized and frankly dangerous place? >> no. >> you don't think the country's
because our voices must be her. look at trump's tweet you just showed. he's talking about just had a great presidential election and now these protesters are out here. very unfair. very unfair. you know that he's rattled already? i mean, this should be the happiest week of his life and he's up, oh! >> it's a remarkable thing. people all across the ideological spectrum were taken aback by the tweet -- >> all protesters be honored by this that already the thin-skinned donald trump. imagine what happens when the crowds double tonight and triple tomorrow night. because that's what's going to happen. >> what about people who say what you are advocating will only raise the temperature and heighten the country that is a polarized and frankly dangerous place? >> no. >> you don't think the country's in a dangerous place? >> it's only dangerous because a sociopath who is a racist and
>> the story we' >> doris kearns goodwin joins us from boston, mass, author and president yag historian. doris, what are we witnessing? >> i suspect that the intensity of the feeling for mr. trump outweighed our normal predictions that a ground game mattered, that somehow this entire race, we have underestimated the feelings of the people who felt the political system had let them down over this period of time. but i think the more worrisome thing for america, it's so close, america, this election, that whoever is going to be the leader, whether it be trump or hillary pulls it out, is going to have a really hard time leading in a polarized -- the last thing we needed as a polarized nation was to have a polarized election where there may be recounts, where people will wonder if it went the right way, where people will wonder if the third-party undid it, we need some direction to go forward in a certain way. what worries me most, we worry about both these people as leaders. people don't trust either one of them and we're in a state in our
but i hope you don't mind i'm going to go ahead and have it. it's one of the benefits of not having to run for office again. i'm sure if you polled this room, people would have different takes on what happened in places like ferguson and new york. and let's face it. the media tends to focus on the sensational and the controversial and folks on both sides who say stuff that's not designed to bring people together but oftentimes makes a situation more polarized and as a society we tend to lurch from shock to complacency on these issues. and i'm suggesting we have to resist that impulse. with today's technology, if just
aren't ready to let go. >> he got away with murder. >> reporter: during sunday's match-up between the rams and raiders, 50 extra security officers surrounded the st. louis stadium while protesters chanted outside. while inside. >> many are joinered by the rest of the receiving core. >> reporter: several rams players showed solidarity as they took the field, displaying the hands up, don't shoot pose by protesters. michael brown struck a sour note. the organization business manager said if a statement, i remind the nfl and their players it is not violent thugs burning down buildings that buy their advertiser's products. it's the cops and the good people of satellite do. the community is the polarized and if need of money. jay nixon called for critical funding to cover the payroll of thousands of national guard and
syria, afghanistan. >> yes. >> and just this accumulation, bergdahl, of international events that are unpopular, frightening to the american public and have really taken an enormous toll on what used to be one of his strengths, which is foreign policy. that helped carry him through 2012 and his foreign policy approval is in the mid-30s >> it's coming at a moment where public is extremely not interested in increasing the u.s.' reach elsewhere. it is a difficult line for him to watch. >> public not interested in increasing reach involving military or big spending. >> if you include the border situation and add in reassertive china and japan reconstituting its military for the first time really since world war ii, this president is dealing with serious international if not crises, at least events in every corner of the globe. you combine that with a deeply polarized and divided congress, it's hard to see how he's going to be able to proactively get
personalities of the people into it how presidents wrestle with these questions of peace and war, the passion that comes to the table. but it also is a book about two other things quickly. it also is a book about how in a polarized and paralyzed city, i actually was able to get things done. i talk about how difficult it was to get things done, but i got them done. my job was to salvage two wars and it involved making significant changes in the department of defense. it required a lot of conflict with the congress, especially when i wanted to cut major military programs and budgetary overhead. but the book outlines the techniques that i used in order to make those things work. the other thing i wanted to do, frankly, the book is dedicated to men and women of the armed forces. i wanted to write a book for
impact. >> how does an inactive congress make the court more powerful? >> well, the court does two kinds of cases. sometimes it decides what the constitution says. that's the last word. sometimes it just decides what a statute means. if it gets it wrong, congress is free to come back and overrule the court by just passing a new statute. of course, a polarized, gridlocked congress that doesn't pass any statutes makes the court even stronger in statutory cases too. >> put this in perspective as it pertains to that health care ruling. justice kennedy said of that decision in the minority descent that in calling the health care mandate a tax, he essentially -- the majority engaged in vast judicial overreach and decided to save a statute that congress did not write. is that what you're talking about here? >> that may be an aspect of it. the descent generally finds something wrong with the approach of the majority, as
completely -- >> it has legs. >> benghazi is lit gaited over and over. that's a polarized -- if you wear a red shirt or blue shirt, your mind is not going to get changed. >> yeah. >> the irs is different. >> the irs is. >> but -- >> can i disagree? >> this affects -- >> can i really quickly, we need to get to sam stein, he's been here six 6:00 a.m., his mother hasn't heard him say a complete sentence. sam, we got him out of prep school to come here today and he's wearing his best tie. really quickly, sam, let me -- let me say personally how this impacts the debate. >> yeah. >> i have been saying for months now, and i -- everybody knows this, that i believe we need background checks. >> yeah. >> i believe we need -- after newtown, after all -- chicago, after -- we need background checks. my argument has been, don't worry, background checks aren't going to lead to a national registry. they'll never -- the government's never going to