not only do trump good uses war against the bee do you do you think there's a media intent on destroying the president you know i do think that the media in general and many of you in the media are good friends of mine larry and i frankly socialize with meters the media regularly and i think many of them do lindt 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 is 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 glues annoy 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 nope.

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 fact that this president is challenged around who's played to hate because he does these rallies. of the tenor of hate look at those people back there they hate us you know where it's been made to 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 report that even those who come up with their shirts say some network may may suck

will come up and thank them for coming to the rally so i don't think it's a matter of playing into 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 president trump and frankly they make themselves a useable 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 sixth voter is see if he's able to turn those voters out in the states that he won like florida like north dakota like montana oh like arizona and like michigan and ohio these are able to bring those voters out any mention pennsylvania you know those others to fall into that and that twenty fifteen 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 in a crowd stu 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 that many democrats are expecting will my girl if that does adjourn trump 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. is that he's playing to his base. it's politically correct does it 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 onto the baseball field started shooting 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. 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 well 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 literally i was the national 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 nine hundred 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 lawyer but 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 as 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 unsettling as well as populist conversations on the right if. you don't see my country right or wrong. well i was wrong how would you agree with that if you like country is wrong how would i agree with him you know i i feel like we're again the whole point about the

balkanization the trying to dial down the rhetoric is there something that i'm for larry is for us to have a little bit more of an ability to i think my thought of having now which we can come to agreement 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 doesn't motivate our bases because as as i believe that those of us like you and i michael or anybody from the other side of the aisle tried 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 there are 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 which we said wow maybe this allows us to come together after i mention the shoot in the baseball field what we just went through in pittsburgh would be nicely a come together and focus more on those things that bring us together. michael i guess you'd agree with that of course i what and this is not a uniquely american dynamic we saw that with the brightest and 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 among active voters who feel that traditional liberal institutions and democratic processes and globalism has sort of left them behind michael sam right there we'll have more politicking right after the break. they're referring to russia and like it's. you know world of big partisan

food 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 troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

aeroflot russian airlines. talk of impending war around the world is on the increase the great powers speak openly on the need to prepare for a conflict what does this tell us if anything it appears to be a sign the global order they came into being up in the second world war and the cold war has come to an end what is replacing it. while give easy vasan this us. war union forms like yeah yeah it's rational self.

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he's in washington in new york michael toman the democratic strategist former senior aide to senator chuck schumer crist do you believe the fourteenth amendment is wrong in saying that 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've not somebody who believes the constitution is an infallible document has been plenty of 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 reminders and maybe even if you want your american. it doesn't need to get

a mind of the mother you're right but they also allow for so many born outside of the united states to american pair 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'd 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 look 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 three well intentioned folks i think a. given this more thought more deliberation of the president chris michael bangs the tide and they will have you both back frequently is going to be an interesting week. that if thank you for my next guest mo amber has been selling out shows around the globe with his stand up routine and now 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 disremember 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 with me over palestinian descent correct your family moved from where to where so i was born in kuwait i left quit ever the first gulf war and end up in houston texas it's a 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 got to think of like backup plans and exit strategies like it's really important is what i learned from being a refugee that have claimed being theon big that's why i learned spanish just in case some breaks out i can camouflage at any moment time. stammer out maybe start hunting arabs or muslims are no isn't happening like. airborne airborne you are them anywhere. 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 fans you know to me it was 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 and you're there said my and you're 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 mo was so 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 and i just sat down next to my told me i was like we're not doing that muslim i.d. 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 my just trying to get information because i was always i always have this 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 was just like the loudest person in the room and that's how you was elected and erick didn't flinch he was like yeah that's exactly how it went

that 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 give and he did not understand this fall then defended for one second didn't defend every was he just said yeah that's exactly how he did. a shock as you heard. as you know already 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 he was going to like that a year ago i felt it and he didn't disagree with it was 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 a hundred different publications and news outlets media outlets get a hold of or any people angry at you maybe so. we 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 be uncomfortable for no reason like why does it there and and see what happens but i could definitely tell you after it was done we both looked at each other it 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 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 you won't 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 fly and 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 this 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 or yeah absolutely wipe out any amendments and not have any respect for further 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 always from you being described as the comedian and not the arab american comedian i hope so. i hope so and 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 sewage to many will say christian really if those atheist comedian i don't know why that's happening i don't know why that attention is there maybe it's the fascination for 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. where there's real i have i've gone and i've done shows in jerusalem and done shows there many times they treat you well yeah and i would have a lot of pals if a lot of pals there 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. 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 that flicks thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my

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