When you have floods and fires and biblical stuff going on, you might, at some point, want to talk about these weather patterns and whether or not we're in deep, deep trouble, because I think we are.
Van Jones
Pundit
American environmental advocate and civil rights activist
I had hoped that the president would at least stay where he was and stay out of it. It's clear, now, that he's going to go in full force to support someone who I think in any other era would be beyond the pale of acceptability.
Steve Bannon, this has gone from being the party of Lincoln to the party of Steve Bannon.
I don't want for us to go with this idea that, you know, Flynn is kind of minor guy. It turned out he was a bad guy. They got rid of him. Nobody was closer to Trump than Flynn for the whole campaign.
When one of the main home boys turns snitch, a bunch of people about to go to jail. That's just how that works.
Especially though when you have someone like Tom Perriello, who was a progressive, who lost in that primary and then came out and worked just as hard to elect his rival.
What we do know is that the dominos are falling. That's what we know. And the one thing I think is still the most damning piece of evidence against Donald Trump is what Donald Trump has not said. He has never said one bad thing about…
What we showed was this party is maturing now under the weight of this Trump presidency.
What you would have to have for this Congress to do what you want is for you to actually have a conservative Republican Party.
I don't want you to be safe, ideologically. I don't want you to be safe, emotionally. I want you to be strong.
Can you imagine if Barack Obama had said that he was going to start snatching licenses? I mean this would have been declared a constitutional crisis at the minute the tweet hit the internet.
This is the kind of stuff that will happen in Latin American countries, African countries. The United States would be rushing to the microphone saying it is not acceptable.