but he was basically fine. i was reading a piece about what a brilliant trip it was and what a great job jared kushner did setting it up. the saudis and the israelis couldn t wait for him to come. it was an absolute slam-dunk. he didn t make any mistakes. i wish he will have put pressure on the saudis and their dreadful record on human rights and democrat creates. but that s okay. it wasn t jack kennedy in berlin or eisenhower in korea. it was a perfectly normal presidential trip. al, there is more than one track in the news media kumping donald trump now. we see amazing stories coming out of new york times, the washington post every day, which is great investigative journalism, with great sourcing. yeah. and then there is the whole reacting, the kind of op ed section of all of this on television and elsewhere where people react to trump. and that s where the normalizing becomes a bit of a risk.
times. it s one of the times i regret tim russert is not here. can you imagine what he could have done in covering the insights on this president? al, i missed him every day of the 2016 campaign. i wanted to see tim russert do the trump interview. that would have been something we would still be talking about. we would. thank you for joining us. thank you lawrence. coming up, elizabeth warn gets the last word. there s nothing more important to me than my vacation.
trump makes as president when he makes them relentlessly and it s hard to strike the note of outrage to everything. well, sometimes it s not easy at all. big argument among some newspaper editors do he they use the term lying or not. i don t think that s the relevant question here. what it is though is that you keep at it. you keep at it. when donald trump would repeatedly say i never made fun of a reporter th disabilities during the campaign, well, h actually did, it s on tape. every time he says, that you say yes, you did. sometimes in journalism we get a little bit hesitant about that, it looks like it is a drum beat. but i agree with you, there has been some great reporting. as an aside, let me tell you because we are you worked for daniel patrick moynihan and i covered him and thought he was one of the great people of all times. it s one of the times i regret tim russert is not here. can you imagine what he could have done in covering the insights on this president? al, i
you re not taking that. you re not taking that. mom, i m taking the subaru. don t be late. even when we re not there to keep them safe, our suba oba will . (vo) love. it s whatak a subaru, a subaru. just so you understand, i never mentioned the word or the name israel. never mentioned it during that conversation. so you had to know the story wrong. never mentioned the word israel. that was the mistake that al hunt was just talking about. that was president trump in israel yesterday basically confirming in his own special way that he leaked israeli intelligence to the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador in the oval office.
them, a wedding anniversary. we occasionally celebrated together our wedding anniversary. they had been married so many years before us. also judy woodruff and al hunt had their anniversary just before that. seeing that romance, such a special relationship and she stuttered as a child. he protected her through the incredible publicity, ticker tape parade when he returned. the relationship with john kennedy and bobby kennedy with whom he was actually at bobby kennedy s side when bobby kennedy was campaigning in california and was killed. something a lot of people didn t know, including myself, is it was john and annie glenn who the kennedy family asked to go to the children and tell the kennedy children that their father had been killed. we had dinner, my wife and i and the two of them, about a