SUSAN GLASSER: Donald Trump, it seems to me, it's very hard eight years into this. We still struggle with how to cover him as journalists, but in a way, the unhinged, rambling rants that you see from the former President of the United States are baked in. And I think in a way, we are all desensitized and inured to the extraordinary, remarkable, and very at times, un-American, and threatening things that the former president is saying. I'm not saying it's easy to understand how to cover it, but I think we have to cover it when the former president, who's already incited violence among his followers, says that there's going to be a bloodbath. After the election if he does not win. He is telling us what he is going to do.
SARA ISGUR: Let me just disagree a little. ‘Cause I'm having super 2016 deja vu over the bloodbath news cycle. This is what Donald Trump does. We’re sitting here talking about a word he used that four days ago, we were all using to talk about what happened at the RNC, that’s in headlines about the markets on Wall Street. And now we're not talking about his 100% tariff policy, which is bonkers. We're talking about whether he used the word “bloodbath” to mean this or that, whether he means violence. We all know what it can be used…
MARTHA RADDATZ: So what do you do, ignore it?
RICK KLEIN: No. I think very much not. And, look. I think- I think the idea that one comment is going to change the minds of Trump voters, I think we've seen that before, and to Sarah's point, we've long passed that news cycle. But the policies need to be focused on as well, and that's what the campaign is going to be, and continues to be about.
GLASSER: I’m sorry. I just have to say something, like, Donald Trump is attacking in a broad brush sense, the basic pillars of American democracy, period, full stop. If that's not news to you, it's not about tariffs. That's not the reason why millions of Americans are supporting Donald Trump. Let’s be real about that.