have wandered into dangerous
territory here.
>> Heilman?
>> I have found the last week or
so and particularly the last 48
hours or so, some of the most
disheartening and appalling
period of my entire adult life
covering politics and watching
what's been happening in this
what happened today is really an
easy story.
The president bowed to political
pressure.
We have not seen him do that
often.
We have seen many politicians do
the president usually tries to
push his way through.
It was undeniably intense and he
folded.
It's great.
It should be heartening to some
people that it is possible for
this president to be pressured
to stop from doing vile things.
At the same time, he is going to
and is already trying to have it
both ways.
We have seen him for days say,
you can't solve this with an
executive order, and then sit
there today on television and
say, hey, I have an executive
he has pitched him self as the
villain in a way that he likes
for days.
Yesterday when he used the
phrase infestation, it called to
mind -- it was basically saying
immigrants, people who come to
this country are vermin.
That's what he's saying.
It's the language of white
nationalist, splinter hard right
crazy town parties.
And we have haven't heard it in
our politics in a long time.
We've heard it in our politics
in history, but not in a while.
He's going to go -- he's going
to use that language between now
and November because he thinks
it works with the part of his
group, of his base.
He's also going to try to be a
hero and say what he said today.
Oh, compassion, the word
I like how he talked about the
word compression.
Can't actually express
compassion.
It has something to do with the
word compassion.
It is our job in the press and
also the job of Democrats to not
let the president have it both
ways on this issue and to make
sure that he can't be both.
You can't just do this thing and
then stand up and say, oh, hey,
I'm now the hero, I have
compassion.
Huh-uh, you can't go around
talking about people like
they're vermin, you can't
inflict this kind of pofl si on
Americans and not pay a
political price.
We have a great chance to
inflict one on him and his party
in November.
Meaning the Democrat party.
I'm not part of the democratic
party, but people who object to
this policy, which I think is a
lot of people beyond the
democratic party have a chance
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