strategy for the republicans and if not will the president be to blame we'll take a look at that on this edition. of the politicking on larry king after a solemn visit to the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh president club now renews his war against members of the media via twitter wednesday morning his spokeswoman and advises have joined in his blaming the media for much of the anger that presently exist in within three and insist that trump is actually trying to bring the country to get it all this while mr frum good to news assailing the migrant caravan making its way to of the southern border and we're only days away from the all important midterm elections is this a winning strategy for the g.o.p. and if not will mr trump shoulda any of the blame for any widespread republican

losses let's start with all panel there chris wilson he was director of research and digital strategy for ted cruz's twenty sixteen presidential campaign and he's c.e.o. . in washington and in new york city is michael told democratic strategist former senior aide to senator chuck schumer he is also president of toman strategies a public relations consulting firm chris we'll start with you trump continues his war against the media do you think there's a media kobol intent on destroying the president you know i do think that the the media in general and many of you in the media are good friends why larry and i frankly socialize with me it was the media regularly and i think many of them do tend to lend the lead story lean more toward the left now i don't think there's any sort of conspiratorial efforts going on to. bring down the president or republicans

in general but i do think that it does seep into the reporting that goes on and i can tell you for someone who works with a lot of republicans who feel like sometimes the coverage around them is less than fair that that becomes frustrating and so do i believe that what the president is doing will motivate in the elections i think the president's pushing back he has a unique. capacity to be able to control the public discourse through his twitter account and through his public statements and he's willing to use that in ways that past presidents have not been willing to do or didn't have the ability to do let's face it george w. bush didn't have twitter didn't exist back then and so this is the first modern president republican president has the ability to push back on the media and i think many in the media find that very frustrating and and believe that he does cross the line at some points with some his comments having said that look let's face it is red meat for the republican base and there's no better there's no better person for the person to go after than the media my going to zoom in or you then he gets away with it he gets even with allies we're in such

a different environment to my colleagues point in terms of being able to dialogue and speak directly to the electorate specifically through social media you know often times and you mention other presidents there's a difference between what you could do and what you should do and i believe this president doesn't have a should analysis and thinks if he can do it he should do it and he will do it ordinarily this is me being too glib you can't kill your parents and then throw yourself on the mercy of the court as an orphan but this president has no problem doing it and again to my colleagues well considered point this is all about red meat for the upcoming midterm elections and this is trump being trump he is wholly himself and more comfortable with himself when he's in campaign rally mode and what relationship that has with the truth and the facts on the ground is tenuous at best and i would say since i'm here in new york city there's a very large media conglomerate up on sixth avenue that is not terribly liberal so not all media is liberal but a lot of them have

a very keen interest in the facts that this president is challenged around cruz knows that he played to hate because he does these rallies is in awe of the tenor of hate look at those people back there they hate us you know where it's been issue made as i've read many of the reports coming out of the media. when they've gone to these rallies and said it's been surprising to them how well they've been treated that reporter that even those who come up with their shirts say some network may may suck well come up and thank them for coming to the rally so i don't think it's a matter of plain and hate i think a lot of it is theater if you will and it definitely does play to the media has become a useful for oil to present trump and frankly they make themselves so useful for oil they make it easy too easy for him to do that with some with some of the coverage around him now let me talk about the overall political implications because the one thing the president can do is we have election coming up next tuesday is to rally the twenty sixteen trump voter is he if he's able to turn those

voters out in the states that he won by florida like north dakota like montana like arizona and like michigan and ohio these that will bring those voters out any mention pennsylvania you know there's others to fall into that and that twenty sixteen trump voter then it is going to be a very shocking election night the democrats who right now probably expect to lose the senate i think most democrats do but they expect to gain seats if not gain the house control the house and if he is able to motivate the republican base and motivate a level of turnout that we saw in twenty sixteen then it's going to be a different election night to many democrats are expecting will my go live that does a journey from swayze to blame. i think not every president suffers defeat in the midterm elections and it's a very interesting dynamic because running for national office is a very different tone in guys than running statewide for a u.s. senate race similarly gubernatorial races which i know everyone's going to be watching around the country and then congressional races which really are just

collections of neighborhoods and they can be won or lost on very local issues at the civic association little league soccer club level so i have to see how that turns out since so much of local politics has also been nationalized i think anything other than losing everything is actually a success for the president because he will have to fight the midterm slump that happens and i know i'm going to get a lot of angry tweets and calls and e-mails from my democratic colleagues but this president has had enormous success in to your point earlier larry soaking fear and insecurity around economic and cultural shifts that a lot of people feel has left them behind whether you call that globalism or so the liberal institutions are and we see it throughout europe in latin america this is just a representation coming up with a very very interesting test in just a few days on tuesday saying cruz that he's playing to his base. politically correct does lead to the mess division we have in this country well

it does but i don't think the president trying i don't think the president trouble alone is to blame for that and i think michael's point was exactly right in that presidents do saw for traditionally losses in the midterm so if present trump is able to hold the center and pick up seats that republicans are to pick up seats in the senate it really is a victory but others are to blame for that i think it is no more fair and as you mentioned larry look i worked for ted cruz in the primary i went up against trump forty two times in the primaries and it is so from that i don't think i'm someone who is traditional defender of the president having said that i. i think he's any more to blame for what is occurred over the course of the last week or the course presently than bernie sanders was for his support of the walked on to the baseball field sort of to republican members of congress there are sick people out there who want to deal with that we're better off doing worrying about the treatment mental health in this country than we are about whether or not the president's rhetoric neighborhood bernie sanders didn't support the shooting well neither and neither

don't support the shootings that have taken place and nobody has it has you not encourage the wacko i think i don't think so no i really don't that was good he would have ended his rallies sends out bombs that's what encouraged him while i go ahead michael sorry thank you very much what what coarsening and our political discourse what happens is what ordinarily would have been a crystal clear warning for people to pick up on and social media just becomes part of the background noise that has unfortunately become a very regular part of our political conversation and shared civic life and the president does have culpability around that issue is there a direct link between his language and the tragic events in pittsburgh and the violence taking place no not a direct link but i would say it's fair to say the president has course in our political discourse which has brought him enormous success politically and electorally but it has caused us to miss what otherwise would have been very clear

warnings here's who is the president appealing to in calling himself a nationalist that some people the wrong way the lens the maajid nationalist movement of the twentieth century was in germany in the thirty's well it was when i was the nationals that was the national socialist movement and we don't seem to be as as as triggered by the word socialist which we had a major party candidate running for programming for president last cycle who call themselves a socialist so let's not divide one word of that out and make as if it's something the fairest if we're going to recognize that that is a bad ideology we should recognize it. off the board and call it out in every format but who is repealing too i believe his definition of nationalism is very different than that that existed in one thousand thirties germany it is someone who puts america first that is what he defines it as well you and i recognize that definition or accept the definition i think it's very clear that's what he means when he uses that definition. germany first did label to recoup quite the

same thing that that those people who want to put america before they write a check for foreign aid those people want to believe that those born in america somehow having a greater right in terms of being here in america than others i'm not be articulate this well my point is i don't believe what he said is it can be equated with what you're implying that really does i think oversimplify what is a very complicated issue and i understand that we're in the silly season we're in campaign season and i'm working on some myself so i understand the need to simplify messaging but it really is what is in america's best interest you could be a patriot without necessarily calling yourself a nationalist because sometimes america's best interest is rests in writing that foreign aid check and that was the whole point of the marshall plan since we're talking about the one nine hundred forty s. but i would say to my colleagues defense there is some balkanization and there is heated rhetoric coming out on the left as well where we have candidates one here in queens in new york city who's calling herself a democratic socialist and unfortunately that is contributing to some very

difficult and upsetting discourse because this activist way the democratic party is supporting for example the b.d.s. movement against israel so is that on settling as well as populist conversations on the right if. you don't see my country right or wrong. well that's wrong how would you agree with it if you like country is wrong how would i agree with it you know you know i feel like we're against the whole point about the balkanization and trying to dial down the rhetoric or something and i'm for larry it's for us to have a little bit more of an ability to i think michael are having now which we can come to agreements and there's far more that brings us together than there is that divides us in this country and it's unfortunate that we focus on the things that divide us we move closer to elections even if it does motivate our bases because as as i believe that those of us like you and i are michael or anybody from the other side of the aisle tries to get together get together and visits one on one we really find that we are americans first no matter whether we do how we define it

and i absolutely agree that their support supporting our allies falls into is an important aspect of that but it would be nice coming out of it i think it's been two or three events over the course of this election cycle to say wow maybe this allows us to come together after the shoot in the baseball field what we just went through in pittsburgh and be nice where you come together and focus more on those things that bring us together. michael i guess you'd agree with that of course i would and this is not a uniquely american dynamic we saw that with the breaks that vote in u.k. and we saw this with the somewhat stunning although not unexpected right wing electoral win in brazil so this is happening globally again in response to insecurities both economic and cultural. active voters who feel that traditional liberal institutions and democratic processes and globalism has sort of left them behind the scene right there we'll have more politicking right after the

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is going to start smelling really bad people are going to start bailing out of stocks technology stocks housing stocks. semiconductor stocks yeah right they just like sell sell sell sell sell sell sell and then of course you could have market down twenty thirty forty fifty sixty percent. relationship experts recommend trouble couples to keep talking to each other this advice would also apply to president putin and president truman on the eve of the second meeting is it enough to pull the u.s. russia relationship out of crisis. we'll get back to politics more now with the political panel chris wilson for interactor research and digital strategy for ted cruz's twenty sixteen presidential campaign he's in washington in new york michael toman the democratic strategist former senior aide to senator chuck schumer chris do you believe the fourteenth

amendment is wrong in saying that if someone born in the united states is a citizen you know i do believe that it's worth taking a look at do i believe the fourteenth amendment itself is wrong i mean not somebody who believes the constitution is an infallible document has been twenty times we've made changes to it which we recognize that there were there. parts of the constitution that do not represent modern society i do get concerned let's say hypothetically that i wanted my child to be a british citizen would it be ok for me to get on a plane fly to london have my son or daughter born there so that they could gain british citizenship now i i don't know that i think that that is the right that is the right approach to these little mind is so maybe. if you want your american. it doesn't need to give the mind of the mother your rights but they also allow for so many born outside of the united states to american parents and be an

american citizen so there are aspects of this i think that are worth examining new i think it should be overturned i think it is a campaign issue as something that motivates people those are two different things and i believe that's why the president's bringing it up now is because it is a motivational issue because there are plenty of americans to me the point that michael made earlier that are met not necessarily are not ok with the fact that it is so easy to come in our country and give birth here and have someone just a mirror. be granted i'm not in citizenship i believe us three in this discussion have given more thought and more consideration to the policy than the president when he said it or tweeted it i should say this is purely a campaign tactic employ it's a cynical one i say it's a fairly nasty want but it's one that the president used with great success going back several years by questioning president obama's lineage and his citizenship and where was he really born like the united states is a nation of immigrants the united states economic vitality growth and and continued

prosperity depends on immigrant communities when i worked for senator schumer and we were visiting counties in the north country near the canadian border the only thing we want to know is how quick get more dairy worker visas when can we get people to come here and work and if they have children while they're here that's how our country grows so this is really simply a campaign issue and again us three well intentioned folks i think a. given this more thought and more deliberation of the president chris michael thanks the time today we'll have you both back frequently is going to be an interesting week and that is thank you or my next guest mo amber has been selling out shows around the globe with his stand up routine and now it has his own netflix special called the vagabond. mo amr is a comedian a writer of palestinian descent i mean he's known for his work with the comedy troupe all made me funny he joins me in studio you've been american citizen for

nearly a decade yes for a year now comfortable having taken the oath ten years yeah absolutely i mean i've always felt comfortable just whenever i travel disremembering to me that i should be comfortable you know he is whenever i didn't have a passport it was a really difficult situation and that's when i was reminded but you know i'm from houston texas and it's the southern hospitality always made me feel home right out of the gate here before the palestinian descent correct your family moved from where to where so i was born in kuwait left quit ever the first gulf war and end up in houston texas is the natural destination for any refugee especially of arab descent to go to the south now you've done does stand up special for netflix yes or let's watch a clip from that special that is really rough man it's rough times that's why you've got to think of like backup plans and exit strategies like it's really

important why learn from being a refugee that have claimed being theon d. that's why i learned spanish just think cases breaks out i can camouflage at any moment time. skimmer out maybe start hunting arabs or muslims are no isn't happening like. airborne air boy you are to marry rares you are they are muslims not black you know about the group was it was. your i guess the army by east maybe go and just get out of there and jump over that unfinished fams you know to me it was your given name is more hum and why do you change it to mo mo is tender jewish is it just yet. oh well i am a semite larry and you are i am a selma and i am a jew when the other said my and you are in a converted catholic church. that's the way in sydney this is all america is all

american it's not as though they changed it to mo it was just something that naturally progress you know growing up in houston people just call me big well was mojito mo you made headlines recently moe when shortly after the twenty sixteen election you were on a flight to scotland got an upgrade and you sat next to eric trump or what was the conversation like with mr trump on the plane the whole eric you know i was left field by he was left field by me i just sat down next to my told me i was like we're not doing that muslim id cards grab that you're talking about and i started mess with him a little bit and then and then i really did shift gears on mentions trying to get information because i was always i always have a hypothesis like when i believe that his dad was elected because he knows the trigger words and he can take over the media and he just got the loudest person in the room and that's how you selected and erick didn't flinch he was like yeah that's exactly how elected i was shocked to my core as like that all it takes to be the president united states just be the loudest most phrases most outrageous for

you to get i didn't understand this fall then defended for one second didn't defend every was he just said yeah that's exactly how he did. shocked is too hard. as you know you're really good paganini agrees with yeah i wasn't even taking it was more like hey am i right you know it's like this is how i feel that he liked it i was telling people that he was going to like that a year ago i felt it and he didn't disagree with it was only a good traveling companion i mean companions a tough word i think they wanted took the picture and it went on line i didn't know the feedback was going to be so insane i didn't know they were going to land in scotland i was going to go around the world several times and have one hundred different publications and news outlets media alice get a hold of or any people angry at you maybe so you want to relate how you get angry at me i'm not giving up my first class the wires like i don't protest i'm going to go beyond comparable for no reason like why just sit there and and see what happens but i could definitely tell you after it was done we both looked at each other he

was a bad one night stand you know we saw all these like giant you know my phones going crazy like it was a movie or something and we both looked at each other like maybe we should have done this maybe maybe we should be going to scotland or i was checking on his dad's golf course naturally or were you going i was going to start a comedy tour i was doing a twenty five city tour in the u.k. and we were starting lessons a pretty long flight then it was a pretty long time we talked for about forty minutes i was trying to get him the booze back a couple more but he was already he was pretty regimented he was like a couple of marys i'm going to pass out and sleep and that's what happened how do you feel about the trumpet administration as a palestinian american as an american of pals in his and i i'm just at this point i almost feel like. i just don't even know what to believe anymore what's happening anymore i'm disgusted by the whole situation you know to have a president in office where he has a hard time you know striking down nazis

a kind to have a big a big big issue with that and somebody who feels like they can they have all the power and they can just you know sign any declaration and just make it make it into law it was the fourth yeah absolutely wipe out any amendments not have any respect for for the for the written law itself and really no understanding for the was self i mean we obama at least was a scholar of the law he was a professor chicago law school he was somebody who understood inside and out in somebody who just wakes up a new man starts working at one apparently doesn't even start before one like i don't understand this presidency at all and i really i really don't get it tell me about the senate race in texas it's going to is was to cruz going to retain his i believe he will i mean i really hope ing that he doesn't but i believe that he will he i mean it's amazing it's amazing what a couple year makes i mean with trump now all of a sudden being cozied up to ten of a sudden he went from the worst person to the best person i don't know i don't

really know what's going on when positing a lot of people are you know skeptical of the voting booth they are they really are they are my votes actually counting are they not you know is this all illusion people are just losing faith and it's really really sad to see that right now how far are we from you being described as the comedian and not the arab american comedian i hope so i hope soon it's funny how people put these labels like of muslim comedian you know arab comedian but there is a jewish committee they don't say two is too many will say christian really those atheist comedian i don't know why that's happening i don't know why that attachment is there maybe is the fascination it because they haven't experienced anybody like me before and and therefore they they have to label. i don't understand it larry if you could help me out and that would be really helpful i don't know i've been to the middle east absolutely you know i tour there regularly. or there's real i have

i've gone and i've done shows in jerusalem and done shows there many times as they treat you well yeah and i would have a lot of pals if a lot of proust is jewish up to my show probably majority of them are palestinians that show twenty shows since the netflix special i've got a lot of responses from you know different parts of tel aviv and different parts of nazareth and what have you that have reached out and asked me to come out think we're going to have a democratic congress through. a coin flip i'm hoping so i say yes i was go with yes let's go with it oh you finally answer yes great pleasure of meeting and great pleasure good luck or all you do thank you so much most stand up special is the back of on it's now streaming on netflix thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things or don't forget use the politicking hash tag that's all for this edition of politicking.

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