i think you have to be competitive in iowa if you are going to win the nomination. you look back over the last few cycles, hillary clinton won in iowa, donald trump came in close second place. if you are not competitive in iowa, forget about it. she took questions this week on monday from reporters in a presser. strategic given the president s attacks on the press? i think perhaps so. i think elizabeth warren recognizes that her stock has probably fallen a little bit in the eyes of the press. you have the native american dna. i think she recognizes that the best way she can change her mind how much is that going to follow her? we know the president isn t going to let that thing go. the president has his twitter account. the press is going to follow back. the way she can perhaps control it is by going on with the press. when we look at cnn polling that we are doing with the des moines register. if you look at her favorability
as the opposite of a political animal. we shouldn t have to say any of it. except the president of the united states has made admiral mcraven a target of his ire. bill mcraven, retired admiral, navy s.e.a.l. 36 years hillary clinton fan. excuse me. hillary clinton fan. who led the operations, commanded the operations that took down saddam hussein and that killed osama bin laden. says that your sentiment is the greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime. he s a hillary clinton backer. and an obama backer. he was a navy s.e.a.l. wouldn t it have been nice if we got osama bin laden a lot sooner than that? wouldn t it have been nice? living think of it. living in pakistan, beautifully in pakistan in what i guess they considered a nice mansion. i don t know. i ve seen nicer. that s the president this weekend on fox news. the apparent trigger? admiral mcraven s criticism of the president s attacks on the press. we know the president is a
silence to now full throated support of these kinds of attacks. that s something that i think is really new, that it s not just the president out there alone saying i don t like this institution or that institution or this officer or that officer because he s against me. he has the backing of the actual gop publicly as well as the silence of senior republicans. i think this is the real story underneath this that s in some ways even more terrifying. again, these kinds of attacks, the president only judges things in terms of loyalty and disloyalty, not in terms of ins institutions that were there before him and after him. i just hope this is such an opportunity, tim, for everybody to review history. let s start with the history of osama bin laden and those raids. people should read them and understand the peril, the real danger that faced anybody who got involved in that including those s.e.a.l.s who were involved that very day, but more importantly this new normal of the cartoonish be
pointed out that one of his proudest moments was leading his military school parade down fifth avenue when he got to put the uniform on, he loved all of the pomp and circumstance of the military, but he doesn t attach himself to the sacrifice and the service that are also fundamental to military life. when we saw on veterans day. tom, here s the problem, that when you take the attacks on the judiciary, you take the attacks on the press, which continue, you take the attacks on the fbi, at some point when you overlay that behavior on history it always looks the same. it is dictatorial, it is authoritarian. the president as tim has just pointed out has this cartoonish fetish with the military and yet shows disrespect in those moments that are most important. look, as always my views are
president s attacks on the press and his leadership style. in august he pend an open letter calling for trump to revoke his security clearance after former cia director john brennan had his revoked. in a statement he responded to the president s comments saying, i did not back hillary clinton or anyone else. i am a fan of president obama and president george w. bush, both of whom i worked for. i admire all presidents regard ms of their political party, who uphold the dignity of the office and who use that office to bring the nation together in challenging times. joining me now, yamiche alcindor, correspondent for pbs news hour, retired four star general mccaffery. general, let me start with you first. just your reaction to the president choosing to mix it up with a decorated admiral like this. you know, there is actually a comical aspect to this. admiral bill mcraven is probably the epitome of a heroic warrior defending america.