Jim Acosta

The American people have to show that movement the door.

I'm not talking about Republican presidents want to come in.

and act like Mitt Romney and folks like that, everybody can deal with that.

Everybody can stomach that.

If Mitt Romney had been president instead of Donald Trump in 2016, you and I probably wouldn't be talking right now.

That's right.

Jen, you'd be down in Oklahoma enjoying your life.

But the reason why we're all fired up, the reason why I talk about politics in the news the way that I do right now, is that I am deeply worried that this is coming to an end.

This way of life that you and I grew up with, our young producers who are sitting off camera, they don't understand what you and I grew up with.

This beautiful thing that came out of the end of the Cold War and the post-World War II era, it's a precious thing.

And it's being taken away from us right now in real time.

And they can't afford a house.

I mean, the average age of a person buying a house now is in their 40s.

Yes.

That's a goddamn travesty.

And so we've got it.

And listen, I talked to Heather Cox Richardson about some of this the other day.

People have to look back to our history to understand that there is some reason to hope, because there are different movements that come along.

This is what I was going to get to earlier.

In 2008, when I was out on the campaign trail, the folks that I worked with at my old place would say, Hillary Clinton's got this locked up.