in "our year of war," daniel bolger recounts their journeys from middle america to vietnam at the right of the war and home again. as we observe the 50th anniversary of the war, we are privileged to hear from these two eyewitnesses. the author, daniel p. bolger, served in the u.s. army for 35 years, retiring as a lieutenant general. he commanded troops in afghanistan and iraq. earning five bronze star medals. one for valor and the combat action badge. he is a contributing editor for army magazine and the author of eight other books. he currently teaches history at north carolina state university. chuck hagle has long served our country. he was the secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015, and before that a u.s. senator from

middle america loves oprah. donald trump didn't have any political experience and donald trump surrounded himself allegedly with good people. jesse: in terms of donald trump's political experience he had been writing and speaking about policy and politics for three decades in new york. i don't know if oprah has been doing that. she has been doing a lot on cook and books and feeling good. i do agree that she has an appeal to people in middle america, especially women. i want to get to something else first, the opposite of middle america. this is something chelsea handler tweeted. holy [bleep]. just watched the video of trump's bipartisan meeting yesterday. lindsey graham, what kind of blank sucking video do they have on you for you to be acting like this? wouldn't coming out be more honorable? leo, she is basically gay baiting a member of the u.s. senate with despicable language. this can't be good for the left. this is just embarrassing, is it not? >> i don't know who lindsey graham is. he's a senator. he went a

administration when you have celebrities because his base, your administration's base is the middle america and they can't relate to what hollywood is saying and thinking. >> i think it's another reminder on how out of touch hollywood is but frankly i almost feel sorry for the people. they are so focused on hating the president that they are missing all of the great things that are happening in this country and i think that's really sad for them and i think they are missing an opportunity to actually bring people together and show a better side of themselves instead, i think they look small and it's like you said, it's impacting them in a much more negative way than it's impacting the president because he's doing great, he's in great spirits, the country is doing great and we are excited about it. steve: those were images from the #fake state of the union. real one tonight back there in the house of representatives, what's going to be the headline tomorrow morning? i asked corey and david that question, what will people be talking on what the president says tonight? >> look, i think you wil

as a period more through bipartisanship he also blamed the president for inspiring fear among middle america. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world separatist in yemen backed by the united arab emirates have seized the area around the presidential palace in the southern city of aden this after clashes with forces still loyal to the president's yemen's prime minister is reported to be preparing to flee the country for saudi arabia. a vatican sex crimes expert is heading to chill a to investigate a bishop the victims say covered up abuse by a pedophile priest but francis came under fire earlier this month during a visit to the country he'd saved the bishop from punishment and appeared to criticize big tim's for speaking out. austria's new chance there's a bust in courts has a welcome to the hunt gary and prime minister viktor orban to vienna for talks on migration since there are words has backed hungary and other countries who oppose you migrant quotas and wanted to increase border security chance their court says conservatives are governing in coalit

and it wasn't that johnson lost middle america. middle america lost the president. and that's why tet was sacrificed. it wasn't just the press. it was mainly lyndon johnson. he gave up on himself. so the lessons, i guess, from tet that apply to today are things like, don't give the enemy credit for having a better plan than they have. sometimes today you'll see people talk about terrorists like they're some kind of geniuses, long-term planners with this sophisticated plan that we can't understand, and everything they do is part of this unfolding of history. well, maybe they're just making mistakes. i'll tell you, i don't think that osama bin laden thought that 10 years after 9/11, he'd be holed up in some cave somewhere, you know, wondering when a hellfire missile was going to come down on his head. i don't think that was part of the plan. i think he thought he'd be the head of saudi arabia right now. you know, that was the plan, not what's going on right now. so, you know, don't give 'em credit for being these geniuses because they're not. secondly, don't redefine

todd: republicans just giving middle america crumbs. how do you respond to that?o a guy like me. the money i am saving will go towards college tuition. you would have to be foolish to feel like it is crumbs. to somebody like me it is not a set of crumbs. >> are you offended when you hear comments like that? >> not particularly. everyone has an opinion. it benefits me, doesn't benefit somebody else. my view is if you can take it when you get it, next year it might not be there. that is how you get up and go to work every morning. todd: that whole area, what do the elites on the coast not understand about the folks in pittsburgh, the hard-working middle-class workers like yourself? >> there is going to be a tide the changes, working men and women, people who betray people, going to be more demand than the college graduates. i have never been a highly educated man. everything i have done has been from the ground up. i have a different type of education. jillian: why do you support our president? >> he doesn't leave anything on the table to question. he speaks his min

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and trump manipulated it and let it out. >> trump seized on middle america's despair.nd when people beco desperat is easy to ble others. up next, everyone thought that the 2016 election was a done deal, including me. >> let's be clear. donald trump will lose the election. >> i've just received a call from secretary clinton. >> why i was wrong, when we come back. >>> there was a time that many in the media would rather forget. a time when donald trump becoming president seemed like a joke. >> he might be leading the republican ticket. >> i know you don't believe that, but i want to go on. >> which republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election? >> of the declared ones right now, donald trump. [ laughter ] >> everyone stopped laughing as it quickly became clear that trump was a category 5 political force. but for all his success, it appeared he would lose the white house. >> even if donald trump did win all of the tossup states, he would still lose. >> we'll see what happens. >> in the final moments, even donald trump thought he would lose. >> a

america. things that we can do to improve the lot of every day americans so we can provide enough for those who have too little. and we all know that middle-class america has stalled out over the last 20 years. so we set up a series of policies, programs, legislation, to improve the situation for working men and women in america, for those who clearly have too little, and those who are struggling every day to meet their mortgage, keep their kids in school. so it's really about investing in america and making it in america, a series of programs and policies. i'm not going to talk about all of those tonight, but i want to focus on this one, making it in america and investing in america. the rest of the program, before i go on to explain more about it, really is this, better jobs, better wages, and a better future. so when we talk as democrats about a better deal, a better deal for america, we are talking about these three fundamental things, better jobs, better wages and therefore, a better future for americans. many different ways this can be done. one of the principal ones is this. now those of you who follow this and i suspect there are

that we've talked about before is can he hold onto his base in we know a lot of his basis that middle america. sometimes his policies don't necessarily bef >> that was one of the main yits sarah simmons of the tax bill. it benefited rich people and not people of lower income who were a big part of president trump's base. they clearly elected him as a sort of transformative figure. what else do we have on the list here in we have a number of things in relation to, for example, will he campaign for republicans in the midterms he is someone who is popular with republican voters, but not popular with the overall population. how much of it is him wanting to many contact pain versus candidates wanting them to campaign on their behalf. there are certainly candidates who help, candidates he would be a hindrance to. in more moderate district and states it's problematic. if you want to pump up republican voters and get them through the polls, that is helpful. does he reach out to the democrats h in. >> exactly. one of the big issues coming up p right now is daca, that's something where there is some de

happened and now the question is of course is he going to do anything about the sort of collapse of middle america if you ask me the answer is no you said you know he made some very big promises when he was running for office to be what do you see happening in the november midterms he's not going to be able to deliver on the promises of restoring the rust belt to which he did i mean do you think this is going to be the moment in november are we going to see the democrats will they be able to act to reclaim political territory. well look the democrats in this country are this is a party the democratic present my my latest book by the way is called listen liberal and it's about the democrats and this is a party that is really uncomfortable with with with the idea of discontent really really really and come from the you look at the hillary clinton campaign where they sort of unofficial slogan was america is already great do you remember this i mean these are people she could not she had real trouble acknowledging the pain that there is out there in the country you know and this is a party that is con

that you can get elected promising income gains, real income gains for lower income families in middle americaat ends up happening is that they generally don't get the pay-off. it is a bit early to tell how far this is going to feed through to the key swing states that delivered him the electoral college and the white house. i mean i think there's evidence that wages are rising, but the problem is they're rising faster in places like california near where i'm situated, near the stanford campus, than they are in, let's say, wisconsin or michigan or rural pennsylvania, the places that delivered for trump. so i don't think it is possible to argue yet that all of the benefits of the tax cuts are going to flow to the 1%. i think one has to wait and see just how this plays out in the economy at large, and i think workers may see some improvement. the trouble is they may not be the workers that trump really wants to pay off. but one last point, christiane, which is important, in the realm of populism voters don't just vote with their pocketbooks. there's a solid 38% to 40% of voters who are going to

elites, liberals who know nothing, frankly, of the lives of white, working—class americans in middle americaultline could be dangerous, if it develops further? i am from eastern kentucky, and my people have been there for ten generations, and i grew up around the coal mines. i live in rural middle tennessee, surrounded by folks who voted for our current president. i think that i am uniquely positioned as an american to understand all kinds of people, from all backgrounds and all classes, and all levels of achievement. well, let's just continue the politics conversation a little further. you, it is reported, seriously considered running for the senate, in i think 2013, 2012-2013. do you still feel there might be a political career for you? i want to be useful. you know, i want to be useful to my fellows, and to the god of my understanding, and i like to think i'm willing to do whatever it takes to be useful. it seems right now i'm in the right space, and i wouldn't rule it out. and it's not a coy answer, i just don't know. i was very serious at the time, and then a young person in my family c

and there's many examples of that throughout the media they have a goal they don't care about middle america they don't care about anything their management is on board they're on board ruling the presidency of donald trump at all costs genome to twenty seconds go ahead i chose to support this president when i saw him stay after a very early on in the campaign while all the other fifteen republican candidates ducked out after they talked to the alphabet soup media i watched this president stay for two hours and answer questions from every little citizen journalist blogger that how much he cares about the people that haven't had a voice in america including the low level media. we've totally run out of time many thanks to my guests in new york bloomington and in west palm beach and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t.c. in exxon and remember crosstalk. in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets to trailing and united states dollars passed through most. in the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what it sh

lived in los angeles and new york and new orleans and there's normal people there but it's that middle america area that came out and voted for him and that's when you go how the how did this happen it's kind of insane for those who have seen the film from a couple of years ago would it be different or can be. drained it was small town in texas well not in texas now i mean we're actually filming a sequel in october i end up in russia at a science fair because you know of course they hate the gays as well so this is a perfect opportunity for set up you know a really bad situation we're going to fill in. this which is no. sure i'm going to go right over to russia no we're filming some in new york and some in dallas texas yeah but exterior shots because homosexuality is illegal in russia in some states in the united states it's not it's twenty nine states number and twenty nine states and united states that it's legal to be fired for being gay which is kind of insane i mean does that work with the u.s. constitution who knows there's always a loophole for something i mean how how is any of this po

elites, liberals who know nothing, frankly, of the lives of white, working class americans in middle americafurther? i am from eastern kentucky. and my people have been there for ten generations, and i grew up around the coal mines. i live in rural middle tennessee, surrounded by folks who voted for our current president. i think that iam our current president. i think that i am uniquely positioned as an american to understand all kinds of people from all backgrounds and all classes, and all levels of achievement. well, let'sjust continue the politics conversation a little further. you... it is reported, seriously considered running for the senate and i think 2013, 20 12- running for the senate and i think 2013, 2012- 2013. do you still running for the senate and i think 2013, 2012— 2013. do you still feel they might be a political career for you? i want to be useful. you know, i want to be useful to my fellows, and to the god of my understanding, and to the god of my understanding, andi and to the god of my understanding, and i like to think i am willing to do whatever it takes to be useful

it's how many surrounding him his supporters very much so in middle america are certainly. not making excuses for it but almost holding their nose just as one would say i don't have to like my heart surgeon i just want him to do a good job that's how many have reacted to the comments on the campaign trail and again in regards to this not making excuses for it but trying to turn a blind eye if you will given the fact that jobs are very strong in the country right now that in fact the economy is strong the stock market is up and these are all things that donald trump also promised to do and has been trying to highlight but again it goes back to his actions and his language which constantly take away from perhaps some of his more positive press the president has no one to blame but himself when it comes to that and you're right there is a solid base but there are even some who did not vote for the president that are happy with these results but also discussed it by the president's actions and language particularly when it comes to the situation where there have been alleged ra

when you start to see salaries and wages go up, that really impacts blue collar folks in middle america we know rural america came out to vote for him. when you see what has transpired, kennedy is going to make this big speech today. i love this. talk to the farmers of america. we need them. they're struggling in many different ways. healthcare is a huge issue. these are small business people when it comes down to it. >> i'm glad you touched on healthcare. lot of people in rural area who had their choices decimated by the various healthcare laws and sun -- uncertainty. government has done so much screwing around with healthcare and health insurance. that does lend to that sort of uncertainty. if republicans can create economic certainty for people in rural areas and people in the suburbs and people in big cities, i think it's a sure thing that they maintain a majority. however, if the economy slides and people don't see the fall out the positive fall out from tax reform, i think republicans are in big trouble. >> the president in the late stages right before tax reform passed, made this

about god when he talked about faith in general yet most americans in this country especially middle americaeve in god even if it is a different faith and they have. it once again showed how out of touch they are. i'm not sure when family is bad. i'm confused by her tweet in general. heather: it will be interesting to see if they change their tone when they see the polls coming out today, when we had earlier this morning from cbs showing 75% of people approved of his speech, made them feel more patriotic, made them feel stronger, made them feel unified and that was his goal. >> one of the best things about this speech is trump saying on teleprompter when reading the speech, of course his staff worked on, he definitely seems more presidential. this was a speech that was different than his normal twitter feed. he focused not on name-calling or calling people out, unifying. it is more pronounced, they are the ones who did not want to unify. giving a positive message, i would encourage the twitter feed for the negative calling out. heather: from the democrats at one moment as soon as he started

. >> laura: hello middle america. >> and anderson cooper is shocked by the pot den.y griffin stripped down and did a sexual act. >> laura: they may want her back. >> you need to smoke spot of pot to understand what is happening on cnn. >> laura: my call for president trump to m they came out of nowhere, sir! how many of 'em? we don't know. dozens. all right! let's teach these freaks some manners! good luck out there, captain! thanks! but i don't need luck, i have skills... i don't have my keys. (on intercom) all hands. we are looking for the captain's keys again. they are on a silver carabiner. oh, this is bad. as long as people misplace their keys, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. you won't see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. g

they couldn't make the message stick that it's bad for middle america. the economy is still booming. they can't convince america that the economy is bad. the only thing they seem to get traction on, certainly from the press, is that donald trump is an idiot or a crazy man and that was, that was belied when america saw one week ago then he opened the doors and saw him at the immigration debate. and then came the racism charge. >> i shouldn't say they don't care about daca. they do care about daca. but if they care, they would have. >> they care more about getting elected. >> it's truly about politics. and th i think the reality is to move immigration aside and make this about the budget priorities. we have to basically get a budget, we have to change the caps to get more defense spending in the budget and they want to offset that with domestic spending. democrats want to spend more and they want to let more people in the country. that's the difference between the democrats and the republicans. in this particular case, finish the budget and look at immigrat

course your policy is justified and moral and right even though it is leading to wage declines in middle america and opioid epidemic and stuff like that. that is not your fault, that is the failure of the people, keep doing everything the way you are doing it. we need to start thinking about this, a category of thought, sometimes it helps to name things. i would suggest some of us or whoever is interested come up with a definition of that, the parallel to populism. it does work both ways in reality, just not yet in our language but i think we will get there. [applause] >> we don't want to speak that way. we have some microphones. i will start with the first question picking up on something roger alluded to, whether the circumstances today, if populism arises when there is a divide between rulers and the people over history, as seems to be happening today, it seems to be different because of the nature of what you raised which was bureaucracy, administration, how we are ruled. is there something about today that gives rise to a different type of populist leader? is that something we are observing

do you think that's going to go over well with middle america? 's cleanse america of white male privilege. which basically says get rid of white males. >> juan: it is about privilege. we talk about low wattage celebrities, this essentially is a left-wing version of the tea party in 2010. >> greg: tea party was actually americans. everyday americans. tell me, celebrity. it's apples and oranges. nice try. the tea party was an actual organic, real movement by americans. >> juan: this is not real? this is so real they have town hall in the middle of manhattan packed last night. >> jesse: little of manhattan! how did celebrity work out for hillary? >> juan: than hundreds of thousands of people watching, streaming. including greg. >> kimberly: on greg's behalf, he sort of had to. >> juan: let me drop the bomb for you guys. the blast was there. go ahead, blow up. i know you don't like de blasio. >> dana: it's not surprising he was there. >> greg: kimberly, do you care that de blasio was there? >> kimberly: if big bird was there. i don't care -- i would h

i think they did a great job of reaching middle america who was their tar target audience and demographic giving them teen lessons that was still packaged in a way that was somewhat wholesome. by youth for years the members of boy and girl bands were just like normal boys and girls the era of unapproachable superstars of the eighty's was over. this gap between the star and the fans became smaller you no longer had dazzling personalities like david bowie but regular boys just like those who went to your high school in the eighty's were all about luxury goods and yuppies it was a time when men were the primary marketing target in the ninety's it opened back up to the wider masses of the city but i think. when you look at issues of gravel from the sixty's seventy's and the early eighty's there were also a fair number of adults on the covers so that's just alone for example in the seventy's there was but spencer wearing a full beard you know it again and then they you thought began in the ninety's and there were more and more boys on the covers. and many of the female figures on t.v. were als