with me now to discuss the president's>3u(jtt over the holidaye1 is leslie vinjamuri a chatham house, r coming on. >> good morning, natalie. >> first up here, the president used dark and divisive language over this holiday, addressing the country. he framed the hundreds ofjf thousands of protesters demonstrating over race issues as, quote,fá nefarious left win mob that intends to end america. what do you make of his words and his message that we have heard in past two days? >> so i think we're seeing a president who is grasping for straws, who is desperate to hold on, who sees a countrye1 that h is leading respond to a pandemic, a health crisis, an economic crisis one1 a scale we haven't seen in decades respond very poorly because of his leadership and it is show up in the polls.çó so president trump is doubling down on his racist narrative, he's looking to probably a hard core of his base to mobilize them, to energize them, but natalie, it is not working. if you look at the data that is coming out on, for example, the number of americans who have engaged in the protests of -- xd surr