Basis and his bombast and the president says he has an appetite for background checks but it seems to be the only food that hell take a bite of and then spit it out. A member is here urging him to finally be strong. Its your country. Who should lead it . Lets get after it. Election watch, the president s positions on major matters seem to be as clear as mud. Proof, listen to tuesday trump versus today trump. Payroll taxes, something that we think about and a lot of people would like to see that. Im not looking at a tax cut now. We have very, very strong background checks right now. They call it the slippery slope. And all of a sudden everything gets taken away. Were not going to let that happen. I have an appetite for background checks. Were going to be doing background checks. Thats the proof. Thats just taxes and gun control. Is economy the strongest ever or is it desperate for juicing . And is going at denmarks female p. M. For being nasty over a greenland deal that never was, good for america . That is the premise of the great debate. Thank you both. Kaylee, well do this one, two, three style. Lets start with denmark. What is the upside to the posture of the president visavis, that ally. Theres a tremendous upside were we to acquire greenland. Its important in the event that a Nuclear Weapon was to take off from china or russia. The president is smart and strategic and saying im interested in this and for the Prime Minister to outright just say this is absurd and what would be a diplomatic negotiation selling a country would be a diplomatic negotiation . Its a sovereign did anyone make fun of harry truman for offering 100 million for green land. Its a smart move and the Prime Minister of denmark just shot it out of hand and said its absurd. So the president responded in kind and side, pay your fair share into nato. I think the president is a lunatic and i think weve got to be honest about it. And weve got to Start Talking about the 25th amendment right now. So this guy cancels a diplomatic trip to denmark because hes so thinskinned, he gets triggered so easily, that when denmark says, no, were not going to sell you greenland, he says my feelings were hurt. Apparently he needs a safe space. In the same 24hour period, he called himself the Second Coming of god and the king of israel. The man is deeply, mentally unstable. The cabinet should convene immediately to discuss the 25th amendment. And im not kidding. The emperor has no clothes. Were ignoring the elephant in the room. Hes mentally unstable, and its obvious. Cabinet is not going to do that. And if anyone reads the 25th amendment, it has to be triggered by those in power close to the president. He would have the ability to undo it. Lets stick to policy here. When were looking at taxes, he says payroll tax, were talking about it, payroll tax, not going to happen. Its a debate within the Administration Whether now is the time to give another tax cut. This is a key part of the president s strategy. Hes having this debate and having it publicly. But tax cuts work. This is the hottest economy on record. How is it the hottest on record . Lowest unemployment rates for africanamericans, hispanic americans. Wages growing at the fastest pace in a decade. No arguing with the trump economy. Thats why were going to win in 2020. Its going to be what they rest the campaign on in major part. Of course your side will argue that the strength of it is a continuation of it and the tax cut was an artificial juicing. And if the economy is so strong, why do you need to juice it again . He says the economy is fantastic and we need to cut Interest Rates. That makes no sense at all. If the economy was booming, you would be worried about inflation, and you would be increasing the Interest Rates. The reality is that the economy is not booming. Every economist in the country is worried about a recession. And the Trump Administration is deeply worried about a recession. They told donors that there was a moderate risk of recession. And the only reason theyre considering a payroll tax cut is because they know the only thing that stimulates the economy is not supplyside economics but getting finally the American Worker some sort of relief. And the reason theyre considering that now and trump is obviously lying about that he its not connect today the recession, is because theyre really, really worried were about to hit a recession. When we do hit the recession, will you come back on here and admit that the tax cuts for the rich didnt work. Its really quite disgusting that youre rooting on a recession and telling lies to the american people. Im telling you its going to happen. Economists do not foresee a recession actually. I take my notes from them. 71 tell cnn the economy is in good shape. The facts are not on your side. Hold on a second. Hold on. Lets set the table. We dont do that on this show. You dont have to accuse him of rooting for a recession. He is. The question is, not if, its when. We all know that. The concern with the Economic Policy and ive been on record saying i get why you guys dont like what powell did with the rates. They raised them too much, too soon. If you have a strong economy, you would not put into play mechanisms that you may need if theres a recession, like messing with rates, like using another tax cut. If the economy is strong, you dont do those things. You do it when it needs help. Which is it . When youre fueling a strong economy, the belief of conservatives, the belief in the truth of it is that tax cuts fuel economic growth. Thats paid for tax cuts. You didnt pay for the last one. Now theyre worried about the deficit. Why would you put another one on, especially one that would starve Social Security and medicare. Its starting to go up in revenue increases. In the long run tax cuts do pay for themselves. That didnt happen. We havent seen the burst in investment that we expected. We saw stock buy backs. One more question. Background checks, is there an appetite or is the atlantic reporting right that the president told the nra, dont worry about it, its not going to happen. I dont believe their sources but this president is the one who fixed the criminal background check system. He wants solutions but he wants solutions that work like red flag laws red flag lows happen state by state. Not on the federal level. Do you believe that background checks of all commercial transactions should be covered . I support the president s stance on this. Its a decision which one . Whats the position . Hold on, hold on i got to ask you. Which president s position . Because right after the shooting he said he was for federal background checks and he said that he was absolutely clear about it. He said hold on. Let me ask the question. Then he meets with Wayne Lapierre and then he comes out and hes not bright enough lets clear it up. Give kaylee a chance to clear it up. We know hes waffling. Hes corrupt, thats why he did it. Lets get the position. He said he wants meaningful background checks. Were talking with congress, but you are doing a disservice to everyone in this country by not focusing on the real problem here which is mental illness. We could have kept a gun out of the hand of the parkland shoo r shooter. Its a hes not going to do it. Meaningful background checks. He already, by the way we already have a criminal background check in this country but it doesnt cover all commercial sales. Which shooting would have been stopped by the loopholes youre citing . You dont have an answer. A red flag law could have. And a background check could have. And we cannot get it in a socalled democracy because of corruption. Donald trump got 30 million from the nra and he serves the nra red flag laws work. Youre doing a disservice to every person in this country. He said theyre very strong backers of mine. Lets thats called a swamp. Hes corrupt lets leave it here. Certainly thats ridiculous. Im out of time. Listen, heres what we know, twice he said he wanted background checks, twice he talked to the nra, twice it changed. Its on him. But fix nics is not the same thing. Information sharing matters. Covering all of the transactions matters. Red flag laws matter. They all matter. Its about all of it. Its about attacking it with an urgency that suggests you get how big the problem s. Lets see when that happens. Thank you for making the case as always. We know the president has his problems on these issues. You see the debate, its obvious. What about the democrats. We got to look deeper inside the poll. Its not about who got the pop. Its not about the twoheaded animal on the left now of sanders and warren, i dont mean that as an insult. Its an insight. What about harris . What happened to Kamala Harris . What does it say about where that party is. The wizard of odds has been looking deep. What did he see . Next. Applebees handcrafted burgers now with endless fries starting at 7. 99. And get more bites for your buck with late night halfpriced apps. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. So you dont have to stash antacids here. Here. Or, here. Kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. One pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. Are we supposed to dance . Boy boy bands without dancing are just ok. Get a better than just ok unlimited plan with spotify premium included on americas best network. Only from at t. More for your thing. Thats our thing. What do you look for i want free access to research. Yep, td ameritrades got that. Free access to every platform. Yeah, that too. I dont want any trade minimums. Yeah, i totally agree, they dont have any of those. I want to know what im paying upfront. 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We need to start looking at whats happening not as this tit for tat game, but through the lens of what does it mean for electability. Former vp joe biden not shying from bragging. Theres other maybe more Important News about the state of play in that party starting with senator Kamala Harris who suddenly got troubles. Lets get to the wizard of odds. Harry, not a huge surprise, inslee wasnt going to make the next cut. Exactly. Youre not going to make the cut. You cant get the fundraising. There are a bunch of those candidates. I wouldnt be surprised if hes not the last one to drop out as we go forward. And i said to harry, hes an encyclopedia, i was like, wow, what a drop for harris, 17 in some poll, 14, now down to 5. He says we kind of saw that with herman cain and he started to look into what it means. What is the reality with what we see with Kamala Harris . I think one of the first things we should look at is africanamerican voters because they make up 20 of the electorate. Theyre a huge part of the democratic primary process. Take a look at this trend line among them. Look at this, joe biden has been leading with them the entire time. Look at what happened in the june july numbers that occurred right after the debate. Kamala harris jumped from 8 to 27 . Joe biden fell from 44 to 31 . A near even matchup and that mirrored what was a near even matchup. She goes into the debate. She gives him that pop in the nose. He wasnt ready for it. Shes got the tshirts ready to sell on the success. Where did it go . I think one of the things that we should point out here and this is very, very important and this is a question that was asked which is are you excited about the other candidates and what do we see here. This is very important. 78 of Kamala Harris supporters say that they are excited about the other candidates which means theyre much more likely to change their minds. 53 of bidens supporters say theyre excited about other candidates. Which explains why hes been steady in the polls. And Bernie Sanders, the same thing. This hurts me too. Because ive been talking the talk that may be the warren move of eating into Bernie Sanders what does this 80 tell us . That support may be a lot softer than you think it is. Elizabeth warren started out this race in the mid Single Digits and shes risen up. Give me one more fact for people or one more insight as were starting to look at things through the lens of what it means for electability. I think theres one other thing and that i take a look at this. The relative amount of cable news mentions, you need cable news, press mentions in order to give yourself oxygen. Its all about press, generating press for yourself. Kamala harris only had 7 of the cable news mentions the week before the first debates. That jumped up to 37 . But look at this, she blew this opportunity. Week after the second debate, she was down to 9 . If you get press mentions, dont mess with it. You got to take the invitations. Appreciate it. Shalom, brother. Harry enten, the wizard of odds. The democratic side, youre going to see ten of the democratic president ial candidates debating the best solutions to the issue that you, if youre on the left part of the political spectrum, you say its their most important issue, climate crisis. Were going to do it right here on cnn in the next two weeks. In the meantime, a devastating blow to the climate fight is whats right now on the screen. Its not getting enough attention. These are record wildfires in brazil, in the amazon rain forest. Accurately called the lungs of our planet. The leader of the brazil said this happens every year. No, they have 70 more wildfires than we had. I want to keep it on your radar. When we return, you know, it seems like the president cave today the nra again. This is twice hes talked to the nra reportedly and twice hes backed off. 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Well, its trump is fairly predictable, if not anything else, when hes told by a man, a man says no to him, he has a very specific reaction when hes told by a woman no or criticized by a woman, he has this one, to call her nasty. And, you know, im no psychologist, i dont know if theres some, you know, deep meaning hidden in that, but it is his goto attack on women who say no. Women who i think he was used to for a very long time, women saying yes to him. And i think hes personally insulted and offended and threatened when any woman, especially a powerful woman, a woman in a leadership position says no to him. To play on the phrase, what is rotten in denmark, its one thing if hes upset at you because you push back on a policy he wants. But this is about something that is absurd by definition, greenlands not for sale. Kaylee was bringing up truman trying to buy greenland, it was a totally different circumstance. I dont understand why he would pick this fight right now. Can you help . Hes pathologically insecure and so this wasnt so much for the not a psychologist. He wasnt taking issue with her resistance on policy. He was taking issue with the way she spoke to him and about him. And so for him, theres no hell walk away from no fight in which he feels personally insulted. So i dont think he wants to have policy fights. Thats absurd. What he wants is to have the personal he wants to have the personal fight because he knows, you know, it makes him feel tough. So s. E. , on what is your read on the reality of the background checks . Theres no question, that as a matter of fact and time line, when the nra gets into his ear, he changes his position. Im not saying its the money. Im saying its a matter of fact he changes. Today he says he has an appetite for it. Kaylee, i got to tell you, i respect kaylee, i dont feel her on this. She said we want meaningful background checks. And when i said, do you think all commercial transactions should be covered, she doesnt want to answer it. I dont understand the position. Look, you know, she is right, we need to fix our nics system. Our background checks is only as good as the information we put into them. Its absolutely reasonable, i say this as a gun owner, to expand background checks to include private sales. Thats the loophole that most people acknowledge is a problem. I dont have a problem with that. Whats weird to me for trump and the politics of this is neither do nra members, a majority of nra members support expanding background checks. The majority of gun owners support background checks. So it seems to me trump is putting Wayne Lapierre ahead of actual nra members. And it just looks really weak because the nra is not in as powerful of a position as it was just a couple of years ago. And theyre not going to walk. Theyre not going to pull their support from trump. Theres nowhere else for them to go. And trump already did sign new gun legislation. He banned bump stocks after las vegas. I didnt hear the nra blast him or threaten to withdraw their support. So this would be his moment. If hes got an appetite for background checks, do it. Prove it. Well analyzed as always. Sarah elizabeth, thank you for being on the show. My pleasure. The president renewed his threat to end birthright citizenship. It is guaranteed by the constitution. I want to look at the election through the fights that this president takes up. And we have trump friend chris ruddy head of newsmax here. He understands these policies from a point of their origination. Lets get after it next. Unlimit. Even when im spending, im earning 1. 5 cash back on everything i buy. shouting earning on headphones huh . Earning. Earning. Still earning. Always earning. I dont know where youre pointing. Not that one the big one. You cant sneak a good earning opportunity past me. In fact. 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I dont think thats farright conspiracy theory. What else is it . If youre saying obama wasnt born in this country and its not a farright conspiracy, what is it . It took obama, what, five years to release his birth certificates. If he had released it this guy wont release his taxes this president and youre saying that obama had some litmus tax of proving the president said he will release it when the audit is done. What audit . This is a bad road for you. Ive said before that the president should release his tax returns, but i also belief that if theres an audit, i have no why wont he show proof o the audit . I think docongress is going know whether or not theres an audit or not. If you want obama to show you a birth certificate right away, why wouldnt he give us proof of an audit. There are other documents the certificate came right out. I dont want to go through the vetting of president obama. He also said, your employee, that the he wasnt an employee. Hes a host on one of the shows. Hes not an employee. Hes under the banner of newsmax. He said the vague issue was done what shooting. The las vegas shooting. Im not here to defend wayne. You started by doing that. Im not here every comment that you accuse him of making im not accusing him of making wayne would come on your show and talk about any one of these issues. Im sure. He never talks on newsmax about muslims you should know a little bit more about the guys who are under your banner. What i want to talk about is this, this president is a sophisticated guy, especially when it comes to Jewish Americans. He is told this is a dangerous description of jews who told him im asking you. Hes sophisticated enough to know whats going on around in the world. He pays attention to his media 24 7. Theyre saying jewish leaders, jewish groups, dont talk about us this way, creating this paradox of youre loyal to israel or us. Dont do it. And then today he doubles down and does it again. Why . I dont believe that he was intending he is the first jewish president. Its the most thats what root said. Thats the most proisrael and he meant it by a negative. His daughter converted to judaism. Im not saying hes antisemitic. Thats a start. Thats being said on a lot of networks im not a lot of networks. Im mean. I dont like the word of the use disloyal in this case. Why dont you say that . I just said it. Hes his own person and as we know, this man, hes not a typical politician. I think the what does that mean . You have to help me understand this. N not being you come from a political family. Most political figures are highly scripted in everything they do. Most president s are highly this is the first president weve ever had where hes not scripted really at all. And hes going out just telling people what he thinks. Theres going to be a lot of mistakes. What he thinks is that jews are ignorant or disloyal if they vote for democrats . I think hes got frustration that he has been so supportive of jewish causes, including the support of the state of israel. Obama was very lax, allowed the iranians to have a very bad nuclear deal i think that deal needed to be confronted. You like the situation with iran right now . You feel were in a better position . I think were in a better position when they were just a few months from building Nuclear Weapons. Thats not what the experts say. The iranians have been thrown back. I think this president has a better idea of how to approach them. So its picking up the fight with denmark. Why . Greenland is not for sale. Im amazed i was just watching s. E. Cupp on your show and i couldnt believe shes saying that the president said this because its a woman and hes against women . First hes against jews i didnt say hes against anything. Im saying hes saying stupid things. Youre challenging me on wayne root you jumped to the defensive. I was going to leave root alone. I was going to do you a favor. You jumped into that mud. Now you got it on you. Thats not on me. Youre saying things that wayne root should defend. You dont get to talk that kind of trash we know donald trump is an equal opportunity offender. He talks about he tells people what he thinks. You and i might not like it. Its very politically incorrect what do they all have in common that are called nasty . Is the canadian Prime Minister a woman . The president attacked he didnt call him nasty. You could show 30 men that hes attacked in criticized. But he deals with hundreds and hundreds of men and he deals with much less women and he calls much more of that percentage nasty. For cnn to take a group of women hes criticized i dont think you should talk about anyone this way. I dont think you should encourage any kind of bigotry i agree with you. I agree with you. Thats why im asking you, you understand where his head is. I think his head first of all, i dont speak for donald trump. Make that clear. You understand him. Youre not ive known him for many years. I think hes a good president. I look at his results and i think hes a nonpolitician and i dont agree with everything he says or does. But i think if you look overall at his record, hes got a tremendous record on the economy, on national security, on Foreign Policy. If the economy is so good, why is he so desperate to juice it . Every time i turn on cnn or msnbc, they say were heading into a recession. Hes talked about doing a tax cut, but the economy is doing very well. We had a Federal Reserve that increased Interest Rates a lot and fast. Nine times in 18 months. The only reason you increase Interest Rates is if theres signs of inflation. There were no signs of inflation over the past 18 months. You ask yourself, Jerome Powell who was appointed first by obama, who the president had confidence said, youre going to support a lowinterest environment and hes flouted that. I want to talk to you about whether or not you think we have any shot on reasonable gun reform and what might look like or not. You got a second to stick around . Sure. Its hard to say no on national television. What im saying is this, i want to go to break right now, but i want to talk about what is the chance of something happening . Because the president has come at it two different ways. Why and where may we get, its something thats got to be an interest to a majority of this country. Were lucky that we have somebody who knows where the president s head is and why. Lets get after it right after this break. When did you see the sign . When i needed to jumpstart sales. Build attendance for an event. Help people find their way. Fastsigns designed new directional signage. And got them back on track. Get started at fastsigns. Com. I like to make my life easy. romo mode. beep bang good luck with that one. Yes thats why i wear skechers slipons. Theyre effortless. 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Very oven when im engaging in political debate, i will indulge in things that i think i already understand just for the sake of people figuring it out. But this is a Good Opportunity with the newsmax ceo who understands the president and his thinking on a number of issues because of their relationship on something i dont get. I see the background checks, and thank you for saying for a second block, as a big win for him. You know the majority of the country wants it. Gun owners says, yeah, all sales should be checked. Most gun owners are responsible people and theyre very respectful of the right. And theyre good with process. And im not saying that because im a gun owner. Most of the ones i know are like that. Theres a win for him. What is Wayne Lapierre going to do to this president . He doesnt need his money . This is all upside for him. His followers cant leave him. He did bump stocks. Why not move on this and again, i cant speak for him. I havent spoken to the thinking behind the vacillation. I think hes probably for sensible things related to guns. I think hes indicated where the policy falls, congress is out of session this summer right now. So were going to have more formative in terms of legislation he could call them back and say all sales should be covered by background checks theres a lot of data, chris, that says not one of the massacres would have been presented by a background check system. In some cases they had no priors. And what basis would you have that . And then you would have to have red flags. You have 17 states that have them already. You dont want someone saying chris cuomo is saying hes going to kill someone. Its an emotional reaction no. I think background checks make a lot of sense. My point is this, i think its not one thing, its everything. You do it so that reasonably you have all different sales. Youre going to check some sales, why not check all of the sales. I dont think it solves the problem. You dont know what will and wont. Why wont you try anything . When you care about something, you dont know whats going to make a big difference in the economy. You want to move the rates, you want to do a tax cut. Im not talking about bans. You do red flag laws and you help with the funding. You increase access to health care. You increase the dialogue on respect for people with Mental Health so they seek help. You do everything you can because you care. We were chatting about this a little bit in the break. People say Donald Trumps liberal, hes conservative. I think hes pragmatic. He looks at the data, information and hes a business guy. He wants to see things that work. On one hand, he says the background checks make sense but on the other hand, he says, okay, would it have stopped any of these killings at the end of the day . And so why each time after talking to lapierre, hes backed off the position . Why would he be afraid of that guy . Look, i think gun rights is a second amendment, the right to have firearms, and its very important. The nra has been where are those people going to go . Where are they going to go . Theyre going to go into the election booth and vote. I have been amazed in my life of people you meet that are democratic voters that vote on the gun issue. Theyre in favor of these checks. Its like 82 . The numbers are always supermajorities. I got to leave it there. I love this dialogue because i want us to be talking i love this dialogue. I appreciate this. I appreciate your open conversation. D having a youre always welcome here. Thank you for taking the opportunity. So, were talking about the president a lot because im looking at it through lens of the election. And he is a sitting president. He wants four more years. One of the things is to look at his disposition with Foreign Relations in terms of how he treats allies and people. I have an argument to lay out. If the election were today, and you were going to judge by what happened just today, what choice would you make . Ill lay out the facts. Next. Ver the years. News producer, executive transport manager, and a beverage distribution supervisor. Now im a director at a Security Software firm. Wow, youve been at it a long time. Thing is, i like working. What if my Retirement Plan is i dont want to retire . Then lets not create a Retirement Plan. Lets create a plan for whats next. I like that. Get a plan thats right for you. Td ameritrade. Lets see, aleve is than tylenol extra strength. And last longer with fewer pills. So why am i still thinking about this . Ill take aleve. Aleve. Proven better on pain. See . Romance isnt dead but it is here. Thanks, captain obvious. Dont hatelike their trip, book yours with hotels. Com and get rewarded basically everywhere. Why are you here . Why are you here . Why are either of you here . hotels. Com. Be there. Do that. Get rewarded. All right. So heres the argument. If the election were right now, whom would you vote for . Lets examine what happened just today in some major Foreign Policy situations. Through that lens. Not merely what is outrageous or i cant believe he said this. Or hes an atypical politician. All that bs rationality. Throw it out. What should a leader do in your estimation . For example, when discussing the china trade deal process. This president said the following. Somebody had to do it. I am the chosen one. Somebody had to do it. What was he talking about there . Is that confidence in strength . Or are you going to ascribe to it numb skull narcissism. As a matter of clarity, no one had to do what hes doing with china. He forced the situation. Theres no doubt there are trade inequities. No doubt that china steals intellectual property. Many even in his party didnt like the timing or the strategy involved here. And as a result, theyre not happy with how our farmers are being hurt and our markets are being roiled. Next one. This president says certain democrats hate israel and thus Jewish American are ignorant or disloyal if they vote democrat. When it came out, and he has to be aware of this. Forget about growing up in queens where we all knew jewish people, christian people, we knew better than to talk this way. The leadership has come out and said youre repeating the bigoted trope. Even with that out there, today president said this. In my opinion, you vote for a democrat, youre being very disloyal to jewish people and youre being very disloyal to israel. He then retweeted a known conspiracy theorist. I like having chris on the show. Hes wrong about his guy. Hes wrong about what he said. And it is controversial. And no, he is not getting a platform on my show to push his b. S. But this guy, you know, Obama Birther and all this other stuff. The president of the United States retweets him saying this. Jewish people in israel love him, talking about trump, like hes the king of israel. They like him like hes the Second Coming of god. Maybe thats why he called himself the chosen one. Now another tactic presents another question. Should a leader badmouth other american president s . If it is done to flatter a decemb despot. Again, just from today. The fact is president putin totally outsmarted president obama on crimea and other things. He made a living on outsmarting president obama. Today, this president also threatened to release terrorists into key ally lands. France and germany included. If they dont comply with his demand on prisoner transfers. Were Holding Thousands of isis fighters right now. And europe has to take them. If europe doesnt take them, ill have no choice but to release them into the countries from which they came. Which is germany and france and other places. So you flatter the despot from russia who interferes in your election and plays you like a puppet but you attack france and germany . Also today, a little bit yesterday. The president got into it with denmark after he decided that buying greenland could be a good idea. He didnt discuss it with them. He discussed it with his guys. Greenland is a sovereign country. Not a golf course. The Prime Minister of denmark, greenland is a danish territory but selfruled, said greenland belongs to greenland and not denmark. That the idea that it is for sale is absurd. Here is the response of the man who wants to continue to be your face to the world. I thought that the Prime Ministers statement that it was absurd, that it was an absurd idea was nasty. I thought it was an inappropriate statement. What he thought was appropriate was backing out of a visit with a key nato ally to punish them, he says, for how they spoke to the u. S. The Prime Minister didnt say anything about the United States except flattering things about the relationship. But this president saw her as inappropriate. And some as you assess whom should lead, if it were to be today, he praised putin saying he was a better leader than president obama. He called a nato ally nasty. A woman, of course. He threatened to unleash isis fight orders two others. He offered russia back into the g7, or g8, if they wanted. He repeated that voting for a democrat would be disloyal of jewish people and he called himself the chosen one, discussing the china trade deal. And remember, hes the one who pro stroked tariff thats are suffocating our farmers. Thats just Foreign Policy. Thats about assessing just one day in the life of a leader who is asking to you keep anymore power. A taste of the walk and talk of a man who gets only 40 approval in Foreign Policy in the most recent polling. How did he fare today in your eyes . Let me know. Thank you for watching. Cnn with dlemon right now. Its only wednesday and im exhaust. I cant believe we have to sit here and discuss it as if it is a normal thing because it is not. And i wonder how many times he was in front of the mirror