russians are now selectively using their public understanding of what was said and the deals that were made. the notion that the president would go in and get putin to order the iranians out of syria is laughable. so, look, foreign policy, this gigantic, wealthy, powerful country is a team support. it s not an individual winging it dealing with other senior leaders, particularly when they re people of no honor and who have murderous control over their own populations. general, it s always a pleasure to have you on and to get your viewpoint. thank you very much for joining us tonight. good to be with you, brian. general barry mccaffrey from our washington headquarters. coming up, what we learned today about the people our government is watching on board flights in our country. the story when we come back. this a story you might have
think is starting to occur, particularly with the chinese now because of the singapore summit. he s trying to get the u.s. out of south korea, which he s partially achieving because the president came back and said our presence was provocative behavior. that was language right out of the north korean playbook. and then finally, i think the outcome of the singapore summit, in particular, was to unsettle both south korea and japan. this is not a good outcome. the nuclear threat did not go away. this was a fantasy appreciation of what s going on in the world. general, what s the danger of not knowing what was talked about between trump and putin for over two hours together? well, i think enormous. you know, if this was franklin delano roosevelt or eisenhower, i d be less concerned but at the end of the day, i m not sure why president trump would be confident that he s capable of handling a kgb agent like putin who s well briefed. by the way, the whole thing was on video for sure, and
trump would only go badly for him but the president himself, he has such faith in himself, believes he s his best salesman, his best spokes man, he thinks he can get in there and acquit himself. anita, elie correctly points out it got personal this weekend and now tomorrow begins manafort. tomorrow night, as luck would have it, the president s holding a rally in florida. what is that likely to be like after just reading his twitter feed this past weekend? right, i mean, what have all of them been like? even his official speeches have turned into political speeches. even his official speeches have turned into places where he pushes back on this investigation, talks about the 2016 election, and everything else. so, we can definitely expect that to be tomorrow in florida. obviously it s a rally for a particular candidate but he tends to take these and just kind of talks about really whatever he wants. so you can bet he s going to push back on manafort.
associate editor of the washington post. he s also a pulitzer prize winning journalist whose name will be associated with perhaps the best piece of reporting of all time. the post article says he s gone through a rebirth of sorts by returning to his signature moves of old. the publisher tonight called the book the most acute and penetrating portrait of a sitting president ever published during the first years of an administration. it s a reminder that, if nothing else, this presidency has been very good to the publishing business. that s our broadcast for this monday night as we begin a new week. thank you so very much for being here with us and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york.
hard as that novice democrat, a former clean air, clean energy executive, is running against trump, peter is running away from trump. and it, to me, is inconceivable in this district of about 125,000 median income 85% white, it is inconceivable that the republicans could win the house, retain the house, and lose this sort of district, which i might add if you hop into your car is a short drive from the district in wisconsin over the border of one paul ryan, speaker of the house. including the town of janesville. hey, jeremy, what s the 60-second version of the headline some people might have seen today involving steve bannon on one side, the koch brothers on the other and the modern day definition of what s becoming president trump s republican party on the other. the koch brothers made the decision that because of trump s positions on trade and the