. >> wait, i have bill kristol on mine. just answer it for me? >> yeah. hi. you cruz-shilling hack. i'm so sick of these "week "weeklystandard" punks. okay? who loves these guys? the guys who had the power for 30 years. who every single week would send out their "weekly standard" and tell us what they were going to do once they get power and all of a sudden we got donald trump in, the most conservative president since ronald reagan. he's fulfilling all our kinky conservative fantasies, and they're mad. they are furious. they're, oh, oh, oh, fussy little wusses. >> told you. >> ahoy, you cruz-shilling hacks. here's how it is. you're fired. you're done. it's over. we're rise to the grip. we're hip to the scam. it was all a lie. you're just democrats in republican clothing. it's all baloney. it was. i got sucked in. i was like, well, this "weekly standard" is refining interesting policy goals, but the real policy goal is i'd like to get invited to the right cocktail party. i'd like to have my crummy job writing articles no one reads at the liberty forum for liberty stuff and eagles. i'

bill kristol, founder and editor at large. -- >> the bill kristol. >> i thought you were going to saythe table, we have a distinguished group of reporters and losers. >> getting a shout-out in a rally is like one insult above getting a hate tweet. so congratulations on that. and matt is here. let's me start with you since you have the honor of being mentioned in donald trump's hate filled, lie filled rally speech this weekend. what did you feel like being singled out, not personally, but the moment you were singled out, in the hours after the deadly attack on jewish americans in our country's history? >> i don't know what was in his mind. if i said something that particularly annoyed him, if that happened, that is fine with me. a couple of reporters called yesterday and i thought of witty insults and it is so inappropriate what he is doing at this moment that i prefer not to participate in exchanges of insults. what is so unbelievable is he is having that rally hours, or the same day, as the murder of the 11 people at the synagogue in pittsburgh. a murder that's partly precipitated, i

bill kristol, editor at large. >>> all right. we have breaking news. new allegations of a treasury employee leaked suspicious activity reports known as sars about paul manafort, rick gates, the russian embassy, maria butina. >> the fbi assistant director in charge said the information on manafort and others was leaked to the media. and the time of edwards' arrest she was in possession of a flash drive containing information specifically in question. this is a lot to go through. joining us is investigations reporter tom winter. tom, what do we know about the charges? from our perspective, they sound pretty serious. >> at the most to face up to five years for each of the charges she is hit with. >> that's serious. >> yeah. that would be serious. of course, any time that you have a secret information, so the suspicious activities reports, the sars, generated by banks and not the treasury department and from there that information is transmitted to the financial crimes enforcement network which is what you were referring to before and all covered by the ba

whereas, bill kristol would entertain debate. there are always things that people don't want to debate but he would. kagan would always take the view. i was hardly a critic of neoconservatism in 1998, but i was interested because i did not fully understand. why are we so worried about russia still? not that i am on russia's side. he would say -- i am not carrying water, it is a question. are there other things we should focus on? you don't understand, shut up. i always thought he is far from the only person who built -- who behaves like that. if you find yourself going immediately to motive with someone you disagree with, maybe you're not examining your own assumptions very thoroughly and may that is a way of avoiding hard questions that you are not answering. it was really noticeable. really noticeable. then i just watched over the years. that clip is a perfect example. he makes a number of invalid and important points. the way we have lived for our entire lives is not a representative of how people have lived. it aligns over ot

i don't agree with bill kristol, i think this is going to have a very significant, long trail. no one wants to say anymore that trump has finally been caught, that the teflon has finally been scratched. but i have to say the idea of who donald trump was that existed until today is gone forever. >> i think that's significant. i think a piece of this detail and depth which everyone is still going to continue to digest over the night and coming days really goes to the heart of not only where he came from, but where is he today? and is he more in debt than he acknowledges? is that part of why the taxes aren't there? again, this is not about beating up on family members who are deceased or anything of that nature. it is about the mystery and what the "new york times" reports is the fraud at the heart of a financial empire that is coexisting with a presidency that affects everyone's national security and livelihood. tony schwartz, thank you for perspective. >>> coming up, a lot of other breaking news. the nine could end its kavanaugh probe at early as tonight. senator markey is here.

frame the debate, and bill kristol joins me as well. professor, you know the debate. what is the solution? >> first, what to avoid. avoid negating, as in don't think of an elephant. don't just negate a frame because that just helped the frame. what you do instead is you introduce your own frame. you know, if you're going to talk about the caravan, you talk about a caravan of people who are fleeing poverty and gangs and crime looking to work hard, earn a decent living, and be free. you know, impose your frame. another thing, if you're in the media, there's a very important thing to do. use truth sandwiches. start with the truth. if there's a lie, what you do is give them the truth, you expose the lie, say what it is. say the truth again, and then follow that up with the consequence of why the truth matters as opposed to the lie. >> you're making bill kristol hungry. >> that's a complicated recipe there for politics. i'm not an expert on this, and honestly, given my failure to stop trump in 2016 and 2015 and other political failures, i'm not sure i'm the best person to

they think at some point this will be over and trump will be gone and jen rubin and bill kristol will be hanging out having drinks in georgetown together and that all the rest of us riffraff will wander back off into the wilderness. they don't know the party is over. it's never going back to the way things work for them. we've got to continue to elevate other voices and make sure that more and more of the voices are heard. >> let me say one thing. i can't tell you how to make your voice heard. i can't. you are an american citizen. when the most entrepreneurial people. we're the ones who spring out of nothing and made the tea party. it exploded with people who organized little league games and church stuff and run their own businesses. we have that talent. only new only you know what you can do. maybe you will get on facebook or maybe create a website or maybe great newspaper but maybe you go from a navy officer to a guy like jack over there and i forgive him for being in the navy. [laughter] is not the army but close to i can't tell you but we aren't a -- we are not like them, some ce

the panel is back, kimberly atkins, bill kristol, ruth marcus. se you seem to hint at it. do you believe this is a -- we are in a -- just a moment of sort of republican -- a dead cat bounce for the republicans and this is just -- you know, it feels better now because voters are engaged and you're seeing it, or is this a real comeback? what are you looking for to determine which this is? you lo determine which this is? >> i'll give you the courageous answer, which is, i don't know. and both are possible. >> good! there's nothing wrong with this answer. in '94 and 2010, this is the two first term midterms that were waves and the only two first-term midterms that were waves in recent times, this happened. and i remember '94 very well because i was involved in that and seeing a lot of day-to-day tracking polls. early october, there was this moment, bill clinton was out on the stump, the economy was turning up, some thought democratic incumbents looked like they were stabilizing, a little comeback in some of the congressional races, and it did turn out

editor at large of the weekly standard bill kristol.ormer justice department spokesman, now an nbc justice and security analyst matt miller and correspondent for gq magazine julia yaffe. thank you all for being with us this morning. >> julia, let's start with you. you've been the target of anti-semitic attacks, some of the most vile during the campaign that any of us have seen, and it's the same -- the same things that we were reading on this mass murderer's websites were being sent your way week in and week out during the campaign. talk about your reaction and also about the piece you wrote about the difficulty of pinning the blame on this on anybody specifically, but stepping back and talking about a bigger look at the culture that this president has created. >> yeah. so, you know, when i first heard about the synagogue shooting my first response was -- i mean, other than shock -- was anger because back in 2016 when i was starting to get this stuff, by the way, on the anniversary of my family's emigration here from the soviet union fl

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stoddard for real clear politics and bill kristol, founder and editor of the weekly standard.ing "60 minutes" last night, i want to play what he said about secretary mattis. it was clear this is the non-plan, plan. >> yes. i think it's -- look, it's so interesting because when people like jonathan are in that room with sarah and she's telling nontruth or she's just really strainuously avoiding answering a question and goes into a robot mode. everyone talks about it and gets frustrated. when he comes on and says things like matt sis a democrat and it doesn't matter what i said about dr. ford and how i mocked her, we won and that's all that matters. that sums it up. when he tells untruths, people expect it. and so it's this weird shift where there's all this pressure that used to be there on the administration because people like sean spicer and sarah sanders came out and we expected them to give us the honest truth and we were frustrated. they thought they could get away with it. he's happy to go on f fox & friends for 46 minutes straight. they're trying to get him off the phon

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calling the week think standard which is head by a never trumper, bill kristol. liz: why is that? sheer volume. and what are the standards. what is make news? there is gossip and different viewpoints about facts from the beginning of humankind. without any standards it's impossible to manage that. an organization claiming communications decency act 230 immunity has to be a neutral platform. it cannot be a publisher and it cannot take sides. liz: it sounds like facebook social media kiss a rue tilt. >> zuckerberg set himself up to fail here. everybody thought he was a genius because facebook helped get barack obama elected. but when hillary clinton failed facebook was blamed. he took on an herculean task saying i am going to suicide what information people can see. he's not up to it. it's either going to be run by computers and algorithms or humans. they set themselves up for regulation on facebook. the amount of onerous regulations required to police your platform will enshrine facebook for the made yeah platform to make sure whoever posts on your website isn't trying to trick som

cnn person on the air i was an anchor and they would bring bill kristol on and i would interview bill kristol one i won and ask about the president or whoever, the politics, how are we going to pay for and now bill kristol comes on, josh comes on and i have 10 other people and you get three seconds and you are talking cable world now and goes right to the opinion. i wrote a memo when i was the road chief to my reporters and said when you are doing live shots please try to avoid two words, this is a true story, this is true. please try to avoid the words i think. the audience actually doesn't care what you think. the audience cares what you know, what you have seen, what you can report and what you have heard. be the eyewitness, not the judge let the jury be the judge. that is probably one of the most significant changes. there are excellent efforts out there to provide transparency and explanation to the public that the public needs. i think you have perspective-- like margaret does she has the word perspective, you hover over prospective. the post tries to distinguish between news, o

. >> kicking off our coverage, bill kristol and jason johnson from the root.com. bill, when you look at this response, as i mentioned, not the first time the u.s. has given the saudis a pass on things that are very objectionable. but this does seem of another order. >> oh, yeah. sending the secretary of state there almost as a supplicant. he's yukking it up with the king and the crown prince and the state department spokeswoman is putting it on instagram, i think it was, photos of herself as a kind of happy tourist in saudi arabia. i mean it's terrible. i mean what's happened is really awful. it requires a serious response in my judgment. a serious administration would be having meetings about different grades of response, not trying to deflect. trump is part of the saudi cover-up at this point and they're -- >> you would go that far. you think he is an active part of this cover-up? >> i say he's an active part of trying to figure out how to minimize any damage to u.s./saudi relations. how little can the saudis admit and get away with it? can they blame junior offi

kagan always struck me as crystal, meaning bill kristol, and that both were products of academia. the main difference was that kagan was dumber and less charming. crystal came off as burial site -- came off as ordained. he seem like an aging linebacker with a history of concussions. rather than make his case, kagan increased his volume. he yelled and stormed off. i always thought he was an idiot. not that it slowed him down in washington. i have to say, this is the most apprising couple paragraphs. i have always believed in -- i like the beads. i have a debate show. benefitthat we all from, and i have always enjoyed hashing things out. what happens if we do that and what about this? kristol would entertain debate. there are always things that people don't want to debate but he would. kagan would always take the view. i was hardly a critic of , but iervatism in 1998 was interested because i did not fully understand. why are we so worried about russia still? not that i am on russia's side. he would say -- i am not carrying water, it is a question. are there other things we should fo

bill kristol, it's always such a pleasure to have you on. thank you for making the time in l.a. and joining us on a friday night. we appreciate it. >> thanks. >>> and coming up, it's been two years since the 2016 campaign, and a funny thing happened when we went back and looked at some of those trump rallies. we'll show you the results after this. my name is elaine barber, and i'm a five-year cancer survivor. being diagnosed with cancer made me rethink everything in my life. the things that became important to me were the relationships with people. we pulled together closer as a family. i had so many people at ctca helping me find a way to go through the treatments, to prepare me for anything i would've faced. cancer showed me what true living is all about. so i started helping at a school for special needs children. i think they do more for me than i do for them. the reality of cancer is not everybody survives. surviving for five years is a big deal. at ctca, they have a huge celebrate life event. that was amazing because the whole day was about all of the survivors. i'm not ex

. >> with us to talk about it, all of it, bill kristol, a veteran of the reagan administration, editorn the weekly standard, what he is doing in los angeles, we will never know, but thank you for making time for us. i have to ask you about the end justifies the means. this is a guy whose name has been on the ballot once. what about the gop members of congress who come up every two years, who have to run different kinds of campaigns, and they have to run on the results? >> let's see what happens am a couple of weeks in the election. it is just not true that these tactics necessarily are winning tactics. the republican in montana won a very close race and a race that should have been a 20-point republican victory as i recall. kavanaugh got confirmed because flake and collins insisted on an extra week. the fbi looked. they at least, in flake and collins' judgment didn't find anything they really confirmed mrs. ford's account and they thought they could confirm kavanaugh. it is not clear that trump helped at all. he takes credit for these things. and he associates the victory in these matt

i really do have a worry that as bad as or bill kristol seem at that point, if they don't have a good standardbearer, they may lose again. >> i i think we have time for maybe two more questions. >> early on he spoke about this drive towards actualization -- actualization. i guess being driven as, from finding groups to promote rights be on the freedom of speech and the right to vote i guess it's the word beyond that stuck with me. so in my personal experience not every vote counts the same and not all speech, not every voice counts the same. if the tree falls on the one hears it, did it really fall? my seven year olds voice was a victim doesn't count the same as the local governments voice. so i'm wondering if you believe that in restoring the integrity of our generic rights, freedom of speech and the right to vote any more fundamental, more fundamentally, that we can reduce factualization that way, and wrestling with take a hit -- how do you move towards one another with these assumptions? doesn't make sense? >> quite honestly, the biggest misallocation of power complicity with the r

bill kristol, founder and editor at large. former chief spokesman for the justice department and jim ruttenberg, truly one of my favorites, media writer for "the new york times." phil rucker, let me start with you. >> you should start with jim. he's so outvanced the rest of us. >> i'm gobsmacked by how the republicans, sort of the audacit of spin and having been a flack, like when they fall for the most outlandish spin you high-five each other. i feel like everyone has fallen for the notion that republicans are less screwed because they've tapped into some sort of backlash against me too over the kavanaugh nomination. how gleeful is the white house that they're actually having some success at selling what i think is a completely bogus message? >> nicolle, pretty gleeful. the president has been on a multiday victory lap, and i think it's going to continue straight through all this week. he's got rallies almost every day. and what they're trying to do is create a common enemy ahead of the midterms. and that's the angry mob as mi

i think there's a very basic thing that he can do, as bill kristol and others have talked about on your show, which is stand up and say, if you are a bigot, if you are a racist, if you're an anti-semite, if you're a white nationalist, i don't want your support. instead, he's doing something more than playing footsie with these people. and it's just, you know, that's what's happening. those are the facts of what's happening right now. but, you know, i know a lot of people are saying that the whole jewish community doesn't want him to come. the truth is the jewish community is torn. there are people including some family members of people who were killed i'm hearing who do want him here so it's a painful thing. it sort of tells you everything, right? the fact that the president of the united states coming to a community is so divisive. i mean, i can't think of something -- think about when george bush who was certainly not popular in manhattan came to manhattan, went to ground zero after 9/11 and took out that blow horn. people were unified by that. the idea that a president coming to a c

. >> it is interesting, he is never going to get the never trumps, bill kristols, all of them, just hate him but there were people that were sort of sometimes trumpers. neil: right. >> were kind of like straddling, they're conservative, they deplore the left, the progressive left and insanity, the mob rule of that, which by the way carries on every day on college campuses. we saw it front and center with kavanaugh. neil: you're right. >> they kind of came back into the fold. trump gave them something in return, acting normal for a period of time. neil: here is time where his stubborn streak can turn to his advantage. i was thinking of prior presidents. would they have stood by nominee let alone the heated accusations? i think good many, not all of them, i think a bum rap what you're getting but get out of dodge. >> that is what is freight about donald trump if he is for you, he is 100% for you. i don't think i have a problem, or you have a problem with his stubborn streak but his crazy town. we don't have to live the last two years. neil: do you think he can tame the crazy town? >> he ha

will it be somebody like pat kristol,or maybe bill and intelligent person who represents a certain pointf view. host: our guest is henry olsen. your message in the book is what? guest: half of the republican party represents the broad middle, the working class. that's what ronald reagan did. reagan democrats. was donald trump did it despite all of the way he's not like reagan in his rhetoric and ideas, he was the first candidate since reagan to go back to that. he got what we can now call our trump democrats in the same regions of the country. they want that broad center-right philosophy. host: one of those regions is west virginia. michael dukakis one west virginia in 1988. it is now a solidly republican state. what has changed? guest: it's one of the more religious states in the country. 80's, they voted union over business. the democratic party has changed. it no longer speaks to represent the average working person. it seeks to represent certain identity politics interests. are directlyts opposed to the interests of west virginians. west virginia did not change its values. host: let'