he said we have been a force for good and we will continue to be. my responsibility and duty is to the people of america. he hit the soviet union and cuba and the death struggle over communism and what it s done the people. i think mara is right for there was a little bit for everybody in this speech. could ve been the best speech of the presidency so far. bret: i ve talked about this earlier. the joint address, saudi arabia, warsaw, the outlier of afghan policy. in the the you saw the outlf a trump doctrine. i think the doctrine comes down to a hardheaded realism but as a realism in the sense of articulate what kind of government identifying the flaws of government, for example. iran and venezuela. standing up and articulating specific challenges in terms of american interests, why you have
with john and you, that president trump would welcome the comparison to ronald reagan. this was in sense a reagan-esque speech. if you look at the trajectory of the speech, from the joint session of congress speech to the speech in saudi arabia, to the speech in warsaw poland, the speech about afghan policy, you are seeing the formulation of the trump doctrine. that is america first, but not just america first. the world is made up of proud independent nations that have to address big problems together, but also have to address problems in their own countries. if there were two words for this speech, it would be direct and bold. it was clear what he was saying. he said some things in very trumpian ways like rocket man. but he also said things in the broad scope of history that is
bret: this beach tomorrow, a big moment. we should point out the russian president, chinese president they are not there. the spotlight is president trump s toehold. he s had some big speeches he s nailed before, joint address to congress. this beach in poland, his rollout of afghan policy. it s the moment and the tone is different than the campaign. it s a disappointing change in rhetoric. he said today the u.n. does a good job feeding the hungry and taking care of disaster. that s not true. it s a bloated organization. chelsea clinton wrote a memo to her parents about seeing the u.n. working in haiti where she says their incompetence is mind-numbing. he praised their work on empowering women. saudi arabia sits on the women s council at the u.n. get a republican president who complained about the funding at the u.n. and the u.n. says will make some minor changes that we don t have such mismanagement.
i know you have other duties for the network so we ll let you go. but with eappreciate we appreciate you being with us. jonathan swan, i m sure you have more of the conversations than i do, but aides increasingly want you to one, give them credit for all the quote crazy stuff that doesn t happen. i think i have seen that in axios and other places, and two for the scripted moments which are sort of milestones that they are proud of getting him to hit. whether it s ultimately affirming the commitment to article 5, whether it s delivering a decision on afghan policy. and they want to sort of separate out judgment or responsibility from these wild, unhinged performances like last night. yes. it s doubly strange because you really have a white house at the senior level where if you take the family out of it, if you take jared and ivanka who obviously voted for their father in law and their father, if it was any other election they weren t related to him they would have voted for hillary
chief of staff who is managing the staff more than managing the chief. right. and as you talk about in your piece him managing the staff, right now he seems to be able to be a bridge between the different warning factions inside the white house. how long does that last if as the wall street journal wrote in their editorial this morning you have steve bannon trashing an american hero like general mcmaster? that s an intriguing question because if you think about bannon s bat well general mcmaster it s about the future of afghan policy, how many troops to have in the middle east and president moves in the mcmaster direction in the more traditional hawkish direction could you see some outrage from the bannon wing of the white house, and maybe that could further enflame this situation. i think that you look at general kelly, he s also being turned to by a lot of staffers to be a voice of calm on national security, to help the president think through the regional