j mag and the jake were the obama administration and the former officials. are rather for turning general eric holder will start with jake which is take on all of this jake. i mean your first reaction is gratitude to the extraordinary men and women in law enforcement who put their lives in line every day and prevent and prevent these tragedies from becoming even bigger tragedies but you're absolutely right look this is a this is a tragic circumstance. but it's also infuriating this is not an act of god this doesn't come out of nowhere the reality is that you know the tone gets set at the top of the fish rots from the head down and when you've got a a president of the united states who talks about democrats as being the enemy instead of the opposition who calls them violent and evil who says that the the press are the enemy of the people just days after members of the press are gunned

down in an in annapolis you know this kind of rhetoric it doesn't just contribute to the environment that we're seeing around us it helps to create it and it is incredibly important when you're the president of united states to set the kind of tone that brings americans together and doesn't divide them and doesn't and doesn't fetish the kind of violence that we're seeing this president holds rallies and has held rallies across the country where he encourages his supporters to rough up protesters as well pay their pay their legal fees you know so this doesn't come out of nowhere and the idea that sorry go ahead go ahead finish. i was going say the idea that you know somehow this is just the way that the times are now or that this is happening you know from both sides just just isn't isn't rooted in

fact. john i know you're not here is a spokesman for the president but. those who would jake said make some sense to you . well i think what's really infuriating is york do you do you recognize this country right now i don't i've never seen it this polarized and angry and our politics being so beyond anything i mean i'm only forty two years old but i just never see them like it and look i mean steve schoolies was gunned down maxine waters is calling for violence against republicans it's everywhere it's not just one person and i just it's a tragedy i think that when these midterms are over i pray that this will at least bring the tone down but look ever bears blame to go around everywhere with every party and up until now the president's message of jobs not mobs has really been a one sided indictment of the behavior of the extreme progressive left but look there's blame to go around everywhere and i think we all need to calm down i hope

that our politics can return to somewhat normal here in the next young one should know the president be above all that shouldn't he lead responsibly not be part of anything like a mall. they all they all should be above it i mean look the democrat message about republicans and about the president quite free in the media and a lot of ways too is that were a bunch of racists were a bunch of fascists that were trying to destroy democracy so the rhetoric that's being use is equal on both sides our entire government should be above this type of garbage and it's not just one it's not just the executive branch i mean look at what happened with would brett kavanaugh the anger of that on all sides the language that was used i mean this is permeating every part of our politics it's very sad j m spawn to that. yeah i'd love to respond to that because you know this sort of both sides ing of this issue it goes back to you know we saw the same thing

in charlottesville virginia in john's own state when the present united states couldn't bring himself to condemn white nationalists to condemn nazis and went around saying well you know there are good people on both sides and the reality is when one side is talking about the press as the enemy of the people when one side is calling democrats evil and saying that they are violent mobs when one side is encouraging their supporters to commit assault. is praising a congressman for body slamming a member of the press then we're not both sides in this thing democrats are for peaceful assembly and pressuring lawmakers to do the right thing they're not for violence and the president of united states should be above all this he should set an example tongue is looking into ways john the department of justice is full of the idea the government limiting hate speech how much of this do you put on social media john. yeah you know we are

a comma jack kemp republican and i think that the party's message should at all times be consistent with our history we were formed to stop slavery we were always the party of equal rights equal justice under law and you know some of the things that's coming out of the extreme right right now should be completely rejected by the republican party and by conservatism in general and the social media plays into that i mean a lot of these groups are able to use social media the media amplifies it tries to tie it to my party and you know social media is being you is being weaponized in a lot of ways by by the media and by these far right groups and it's up to republicans a stand against it. the hyper partisan talk show host bloggers are they part of this tragedy. absolute there's no doubt that this kind of thing it's that attacks and conspiracy theories get amplified in the media we saw that you know back when someone came into. one into

a pizza place in in d.c. a with with a gun because they believe that there was a. child sex trafficking ring being run by democrats out of the basement and that all came from these sort of hyper partisan fringe folks who are peddling conspiracy theories and are pushing this sort of end times rhetoric so certainly there is a great amount of responsibility taken by these fringe figures but you know part of it is that some of the more. you know the people who should be. cooling these tensions are instead inflaming them and we saw it again when you know when president trump you know spoke with alex jones from info wars when when you invite you know breitbart into the white house that's sort of what you're encouraging and peep. do need to be more responsible than this the fringe is always going to be the

friends the question is sort of what kind of air you give to it and certainly people in positions of power and people in positions of responsibility shouldn't be doing that it's not acceptable it shouldn't happen john you say you're a. jack kemp republican i knew jack very well spent many hours with him on and off the air what do you think he'd think of what's gone on today. i think he would think that the party our party the republican party's missed a really big opportunity and that is to ensure its own survival by making it appeal to new voters new communities minority communities specifically i mean we are supposed to be the party that was formed for that very purpose was to you know to liberate provide equal justice and i think jack kemp's message was the right one and one we should get back to and it's a shame that. the media has a lot to do with with misrepresenting a lot of where our party stands on issues but it's

a shame that our party is not focused more on that and should be right now. to get to some of the areas the investigations the explosive devices could to news with so it was the march of immigrant care of them to the u.s. born in this interim states that there are terrorists within the county of and nothing's been proven what do you make of that mess. well the president's statements are incredibly shameful and this is just another example as we were just talking about of him just making these statements that are inflammatory and offensive without any kind of evidence without any kind of reasoning behind them except for getting his supporters all riled up you know the the. unfortunately the republican party is a long way from the party of equal rights you know and the party of lincoln that they that they like to talk about because you know we're heading into an election where the main message of the republican party is you should be afraid you should be afraid of this caravan of refugees of people trying to escape horrific economic

conditions horrific violence who are by the way about a thousand miles away it'll take them weeks if not months to reach the border where they will be presenting themselves at the border to ask for asylum these aren't people trying to force their way into our country or trying to engage in violence these are these are people trying to lawfully present themselves at the border for asylum because of horrific conditions in their home country it's seven thousand people is not a violent mob and so the president's comments are incredibly incredibly unacceptable and they're irresponsible and this assertion of his that there are sort of these unknown middle easterners in this caravan they're insane and it doesn't make any sense except as a fear mongering tactic which tells you something about where this president coming is coming from and it's it's a real shame i take no pleasure in this it's awful john what do you make. then.

well i think it's absurd to say that the message of the republican party right now is to be afraid of the caravan i don't know of a single battleground state where the house is going to be decided or a state where the set is to be decided where the candidates or the incumbents are campaigning on this mob of people coming up by the caravan their talk about tax cuts they're talking about the left to being on. in in its rhetoric like maxine waters being the face of the party the definite talk about that but they're not talking about this mob and you know the source for what turned out to be an absurd comment about the middle east infiltrators in this mob came actually from the governor of texas whose information. is probably wrong so i you know i think the media is pushing this narrative the republican party is not sitting there you know put throwing everything they've got into shit you know scaring you in this caravan the caravan was created by the people in the caravan and the media picked it up it

has made it an issue and it's trying to use it as a race baiting tactic about how you know republicans are races because democrats have absolutely no agenda and they're falling back on the same thing they do every time republicans are racists look what they're saying about this caravan and we're too busy talking about tax cuts we let it happen and the republican party just isn't talking about it john jay going to get into the mid to write them all politicking after the break. aeroflot russian and lights. you know world of big partisan

movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. aeroflot russian and why it's.

hot there almost two years ago office many still question whether donald trump has a coherent foreign policy the same cannot be said about the president's national security adviser john bolton when you think of bolton the word subtlety and diplomacy don't come to mind so is there now. bolton dot. product of the god of love the best out of the jewels of. the concepts i was playing to perform i passed myself to die i. don't know said he'd well i'm so sorry. i was listening. to snow in the home of. her.

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virginia and jake mccabe the former obama administration official informant chief speechwriter for attorney general eric holder what do you think is going to have been a week from tuesday jake. well listen i got out of the prediction business after twenty sixteen but i can tell you that the democrats have an extraordinary roster of candidates they've got a record number of candidates running record numbers of. women record high enthusiasm and record dollars coming in from small donors so democrats are pushing here democrats are we've got a you know a clear message we're talking to particular about health care about protecting people's health care while republicans are trying to take it away we're talking about we're talking about the republican tax cuts for the wealthy and we're talking which they've talked of doubling down on and we're talking about the republican culture of corruption that has that has made its way through not only republicans in congress but republicans in this administration whether it's you know the

president united states who's been embroiled in multiple controversies or half his cabinet that's had to leave because of corruption investigations look at the people are not the people of this country are not being well served by the republicans in charge and if they want any kind of check on on these on these individuals in power then they've got some great candidates running on the democratic line from within their communities we're going to step up and do the right thing and i hope that's that's the way this goes john how do you see a week from tuesday. i think the republicans probably pick up anywhere from two to maybe a maximum of five seats in senate and the house is a toss up i definitely would have said the democrats had the house easily won a few months ago but the incredible surge by republican candidates and enthusiasm of our base is really been amazing over the last few i think the democrats way overplayed their hand and a lot of these issues i think the notion that in an economy as on fire as this

economy is that somehow you know we're holding republicans accountable for mismanagement just is inconsistent with the truth so i don't know what's going to happen in the house that could go either way but i think whoever holds the house in the end if the democrats have a majority of republicans retain a majority it's going to be by a slim margin of a few seats. you know on a dig but. almost sound like you think the democrats are going to take the house. i would i would love for that to be the case you know i think that i think the republicans have showed unfortunately over the last couple of years that they're just not interested in holding this president accountable that they're sort of going to go where he goes and i think in in an administration like this one in particular you know you need somebody who is helping to cool the jets and you know the republicans just aren't going to do it they're not going to stand up to this administration and i'm hopeful that we will have enough folks who are

beholden to their districts and not to their donors in order to stand up against some of the things that we're seeing and to provide some you know some real balance and some real oversight which i think this country really wants john do you spend huge turnouts on november sixth. i do i actually think that the republicans are smart to model this after closer to twenty sixteen than twenty fourteen i think one of the early signs that this is going to be the case was you all remember the georgia sixth race between karen handel and john also off that was sort of the first suburban district outlier district that you know would go read most elections but was somehow looking very close turned out to not be as close as predicted but that was the race where democrats actually turned out way more than were expected for a special election and the reason why karen handel won by a few points was because republicans just turned out more in my home district where

i live virginia ten barbara comstock versus jennifer waxed in the plan for both sides needs to be turnout that's way above and beyond what we saw in two thousand and fourteen where barbara comstock won by sixteen points so this is not going to be a normal midterm and the republican party the democrat party would be well served and thinking of this as a high turnout historic election. thank you both john jay we hope to have you both back again real soon. thank you thank you larry donald trump surprise the world by recently announcing his intentions to terminate the intermediate range nuclear forces agreement with russia treaty dates back to the one nine hundred eighty seven was signed by ronald reagan and michaele gorbachev at the time it was hailed as a watershed agreement between two nations at the center of the cold war arms race. why does the trumpet ministration want to abandon the treaty and how will it affect

relations between the united states and russia for this we turn to joel rubin he served as deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the obama administration and he's president of the washington strategy group he joins us from washington before we get to the question of the nuclear treaty was your reaction to these explosive devices going around. thanks larry for asking about that and it's great to be with you it is very troubling and people in washington are on edge as a result of this target seem to be liberal democratic icons leaders people who the president has identified as enemies of the people in some instances and really has unsettled a lot of people here in washington about about really the real world impacts potentially political environment we're in how do these events play overseas well i

think what it does is it just highlights for an international audience. the kind of dynamics that we have right now in the united states our politics are too vicious in terms of the way people are are talking about each other talking about issues and perhaps countries around the world aren't quite aware of how divisive it's become but this may very well to reset congress's foreign policy i mean how do you mean thanks really do i think jamal khashoggi fair really has brought together a variety of threads about america's role in the middle east and internationally what are we trying to do and who are we doing this with and we essentially saw the trump administration for a couple of weeks withhold judgment and in fact cover for saudi arabia who ultimately took responsibility for his killing and. up until now we had a policy in the middle east where we have tried to lead our policy rather than

follow another country and we've invested ourselves so much in saudi arabia in terms of policy and they're taking us into a place where a lot of americans certainly in congress are not comfortable and broadly speaking the american people did not like the trump administration's response to it so we need to have a real reset about what our priorities are regarding saudi arabia and in the region obama supports saudi a lot he did he absolutely did and in fact the roots of the the support for america american support for the saudi bombing of yemen those routes were built in the obama administration and it's reckoning of sorts for a lot of the policy waders from both parties in terms of that war but what's different in this case is that the trump administration has really personalized its support for saudi arabia in engaging directly and in looking for saudi support related to iran related to the palestinian israeli peace process and we don't quite

know yet what the relations are between jericho center and the crown prince behind the scenes in so there's a lot of skepticism about the trumpet ministrations reaction to this killing and concerns that maybe the car ministration wants to go soft on what should be a very clear place to go difficult and go hard or what do you make about trump trying to terminate that intermediate range nuclear force treaty with russia. we are seeing the slow unraveling of the arms control infrastructure and global. protocol that protect us from nuclear war and why you know we we currently have a first and foremost russia has been in violation of the i.n.f. treaty according to both the obama administration and the trumpet ministration for a number of years but that doesn't mean that the treaty is not relevant anymore this treaty as you mentioned the beginning three decades old it took away thousands

of of nuclear warheads from europe the european support it creates guardrails in the mechanism for us in russia no treaties are perfect implementation always has problems the danger is that when you throw away treaties and john bolton the national security advisor argued against this treaty for years. they have to be replaced with something and so right now we're on the verge of having literally just one treaty left with russia and that's the new start treaty as in regards to nuclear weapons and i think the president articulated the position that if we walk away somehow russia will come back and seek a better deal and that was the argument he made about pulling out of the trans pacific pacific partnership trade deal with asia and we walked away and they haven't come back and looked for us it's a very risky move what do you make of trump probably declaring himself a nationalist. the word has

a lot of connotation i believe that americans who understand where nationalism know that that connotes military conflict that nationalism amongst countries particularly during world war two and prior to that led countries to want to fight each other militarily and we moved away from that multilateralism is part of that but american patriotism that's the real national it's those here in the united states being a patriot is something one can be proud of being a nationalist implies the united states really looks to conflict with other countries rather than cooperation is also a racist to it do you think. well you certainly right now there are a lot of concerns in the democratic party in particular about the language being used towards for example the caravan of migrants from central america i served in the peace corps in central america so i have an affinity for that part of the world

and it's a it's a very humble part of the world and the attacks against them which are used in coded racial racial language that is very troubling and we're seeing now in georgia for example in the election that a dominant number of people kicks off the voter rolls or african-american in north dakota a number of native americans kicked off the voter rolls in very questionable maneuvers by republican leaders in those states so racial politics in america is coming to the fore right now as an electoral strategy and it's really diminishing our public space joel as always thank you so much for your intellect thank you larry my pleasure joel rubin and thank you viewers for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things and don't forget to use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking.

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