an msnbc contributor charlie sikes. charlie, proximity wins, you go first. that is the political reaction to syria today. i want to throw up on the screen why it is tough for donald trump, sean spicer, anyone speaking in their name to respond to -- this is his twitter history on do not attack syria, syria is not our problem. as a friend of mine always says -- i don't mean to be disrespectful -- sure looks different from the cheap seats. >> it sure does. once again, you know, how many times have we lived through this, never again, you know, after the holocaust, after rwanda, we said never again, and yet here we are. this is our generation's moral challenge. sure, there were definite foreign policy failures by the obama administration, but now the question is what is donald trump, what is the trump administration going to do? a lot of rhetoric about how this is unacceptable, but the reality is that the world right now is accepting this. nothing that is happening in syria was unpredictable. nothing that has happened in syr syria, you know, should shock the worl

and as a matter of fact there is a draft clarke for senate movement, charlie sikes, running to get himch jobs or maybe the senate or get him into the trump campaign. his travel schedule, he's all over the country speaking. raising money as a public speaker. do you see in sheriff clarke who still wants to be sheriff and what more people die in his jail? >> it's an interesting question because i'm sure he would like to keep wearing that uniform when he goes on fox news. >> sure. which is the only time we've seen him around here. he's awol. he's basically bailed on milwaukee. i actually don't see him running for re-election. i think he thinks he's bigger than the sheriff's job. and he's transformed himself into this mini trump wannabe. and that's his career trajectory. >> and senator, how is it that he gets full-on democratic voters. we know republicans support him in the primary. you cross over, you guys have open primaries. particularly black voters have not caught on to this guy? >> well, you have to remember, we had a black sheriff before, and the sheriff really has talked a really go

joining me, charlie sikes. and steve mcmahan. let me start with you.his thing yesterday ten times. gary cohn and steve mnuchin said everything is going away except the charitable deductions and the mortgage rate deductions. so you could be forgiven for thinking the 401(k) deduction was going awa too. they said it was and then wasn't. so the conversation is difficult because we don't actually know. >> and that this is not a bill. it is basically a press release. there is no meat to the substance. you've had people who have been working for years on revenue neutral tax cuts. and clearly with a the trump focus have decided, they'll shove all that aside and start from scratch. i'm a supply side guy but i don't think there is a way to argue that number one, this is a middle class tax cut and number two, that it won't blow an enormous hole in the federal deficit. based on what we know right now, we could be seeing the elimination of being able to take your employer's tax, health care benefits and not to have pay income on that. the earned income tax credit t

. >> charlie sikes, a member of the media. and an obsession that combines three of my obsessions.re americans are getting more and more comfortable criticizing the president. >>> welcome back. every night i'm obsessed with politics and data. when they come together, it is like hat trick. i'm obsessed with a poll about how sports fans view president trump. check this out. our friends at marist and found pout among sports fans, president trump's approval is at 37%. when you break it down by sports fandom, it is interesting but not that surprising if you're a consumer of political polling data. nascar fans are by far the most enthusiastic about trump with 50% prove. hockey fans have a higher approval rating of the president than sports fans overall. baseball aficionados track closely with the nation overall at 39% ask football fans are exactly in line with the overall fan base at 37%. tennis fans take a dimmer view. 51% disapprove. of all the sports fans, it is at 28% why. are all of them the most pro trump? they're more like i to live in rural southern parts of the country. on the o

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