Chris Hayes: Elon Musk's behavior driven by psychology of social attention addiction
MSNBC host and bestselling author Chris Hayes joins Morning Joe for a wide-ranging discussion on the themes from his new book 'The Sirens' Call' on how tech companies compete for attention and how President Trump benefits. Mara Gay and Eddie Glaude Jr. also join the discussion.
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"It's been peaceful for days, and then suddenly these guys showed up and flipped everybody out. And so that's what my family is saying," Whoopi Goldberg said Tuesday. "I spoke to five people that live in LA, that work in LA, and they said the protests were very, very orderly, they weren't violent, and they occurred in about a four-block radius, and we all know how large LA is," Sunny Hostin followed. "And so, in my view, there is no crisis in Los Angeles that ICE did not cause. That is the fact of the matter, right?" Sunny Hostin Claims Ice Caused Crisis In Los Angeles On Tuesday, ABC's LA-based late-night host Jimmy Kimmel declared "there's no riot outside" and suggested the media is hyping the unrest while blasting President Donald Trump for sending in the National Guard. "Someone sets a fire in a garbage can, 12 camera crews go running toward it," Kimmel asserted. "Trump wants it to seem like anarchy, so he goes around our governor and calls in 4,000 troops from the National Guard and 700 active-duty Marines. When we had the wildfires that devastated big chunks of our city, he did absolutely nothing. Now that we're in the middle of a non-emergency, send in the National Guard!"Original article source: Liberal media downplays LA riots, dismiss violence as isolated while touting 'peaceful' anti-ICE protests
