President s trump president trump rather still campaigning at a rally in west virginia on thursday. the president spoke out on everything from jobs to immigration to russia. the russia story is a total fabrication. it s just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that s all it is. what the prosecutors should be looking at are hillary clinton s 33,000 deleted emails. let s bring in zelina maxwell and gellian melcher editor from the wall street journal. zelina, the president clearly playing to his base here and yet poll numbers keep going lower and lower. what is the disconnect? i think the disconnect is that he hasn t been able to deliver on the legislative goals that he set during the campaign last year and i think that the
We talk about some outlets are fake news. it looks like a discrediting campaign that s preemptive to me. i m very concerned about it. if you like, the best form of defense is offense strategy? yeah, exemcept we re supposeo have a white house that s transparent. we re supposed to know what s going on. we re not supposed to control the outcome of news by trying to manipulate reporters. look, i know hundreds of reporters that reporters are not going to be manipulated. they re going to report the news. i think, look, everybody is biased and reporters are biased too, but i do think their bias preeminently is for news. so this action by the administration to sort of cut out the press, which is the people s view of what s going on, i think should concern everyone. zelina, that s right, isn t it, though? are we being a little holier
They don t care about the criticism, they don t care about the demonstrations, that s what they re going to do. that s bannon s message and that seems to be donald trump s message as well. rick, how did you interpret those words from steve bannon? it seems like even with a republican president, we re still seeing a battle for the heart of the republican party. well, it would be nice to see the president get out of campaign mode and into governing mode. i actually liked the second half of his speech quite a bit. there s a lot in there that conservatives could rally around and be excited b i don t like the term economic nationalism because as a conservative, conservatives are free traders. although steve bannon said that they were going to have individual bilateral trade agreements, and i could be for that. he talked about national security and we certainly would like to make sure our country is safe. we ve got to go about it the right way. zelina, the president heads
Carly fiorina, and would not actually back trump. that assessment about donald trump, a guy not really presidential, but kind of got the temperament of a bar bouncer, and somebody want somebody to get something done. do you agree with that? i think he s somebody who will throw the brick through the plate glass window, which is what a lot of the voters want, really, in both parties. what they have seen is bad results over the last few years. i think that s part of bernie sanders appeal on the democratic side. he s very anti-establishment, even though he s been in washington. i don t know if it is either left or right, but it is anti-establishment. the republican party has moved to a more populist party as it gravitates to the social issues over the last decade. a different party than the bushes are used to. there s still plenty of time for this stuff to sort out. plenty of time still. zelina, i want you to listen to the reactions hillary clinton
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Win elections. now, zelina, eric at media matters says the gop doesn t have a mitt romney problem, it has a conservative media problem. the split over romney s gift remark highlights the larger divide within the conservative movement between two distinct camps, activists and politicians who want to get republicans elected versus right-wing media players who want to grow their audience. right. voters are one thing but your audience is an entirely different thing. it s conservatives watching fox news and listening to rush limbaugh and conservative radio and the bottom line is, the gifts comment, i don t even like to think of it as gifts. i like to think of it as rights. voters went to the polls and voted so that they could have their rights, health care, affordable reproductive health care, my right to choose, things of that nature. so it s important that to note that conservative media is
It s not only rape that we re talking about. contraception is a huge issue. it s changed society in many ways. so women s access to contraception is the number one factor and allows us to go from second class status to first-class status. it allows us to have autonomy over our bodies and over our decision as far as our career path and family planning. laura bassett and zelina, thank you both for your time. thank you. coming up, moderate mitt. meet 2009 mitt. a new tape surfaces with him praising glenn beck. but the questions don t stop there. you re watching politicsnation as we get ready for a big night here on the place for politics. msnbc.
Offensive and the policies that sort of subscribe to this belief that women can t be trusted when they say they have been raped. either they are too stupid or they are lying. that s why you need to categorize forceful and whatever kind of rape that they think there is. i think that what is really going to be telling is whether these congressmen who have made these comments are going to be elected. zelina, is that the reason when you hear her say whether they are going to be elected, look at the polls. is that the reason you see the president leading romney among women in virginia, he s 16 points up over romney, the president is. he s 12 points up in ohio, 13 points in florida, ten points in wisconsin, six points in colorado among women voters in those key swing states? yes.