I'm reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940.

And the general, Renaud, calls up Churchill and says, it's over.

And Churchill says, how can it be?

You've got the greatest army in Europe.

How can it be over?

He said, it's over.

So I had that suppressed feeling.

It's about 115 Moscow time. This thing is going very well for Donoviya, Putin. I promise you.

He's probably staying up watching us right now. How you doing, Brad?

I think that the rest of us that sort of look at politics have underestimated the sheer unadulterated rage,

the anger of working class people, especially young people who are living

with three roommates and have a lift job and an Uber job and they can't make it and they're

looking at my generation Gen X who we could have it all in the Clinton years and we were living well

and our parents and grandparents and they're like throw the tables over they're turning the

these again are people who work on the strip within two and a half miles of the

Bellagio largely people of color of those the majority are Latino and they are

clearly at least from eyeballing it, strongly in favor of Bernie Sanders.

I think this is a wake-up moment for the American power establishment.

From Michael Bloomberg to those of us in the media, to Democratic Party, to donors, to CEOs,

many in this establishment are behaving, in my view, as they face the prospect of a Bernie Sanders nomination,

like out of touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy, just sort of, how do we stop this, how do we block this, and there is no curiosity.

Why is this happening? What is going on in the lives of my fellow citizens in this country?

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