where isis flags have flown against philippine forces, and you have seen the terrorist attacks in europe. the battle space is global and it s different than in the past. also joining us now is ambassador michael mcphaul. the president scheduled to go to the g-20 summit later this week. general mcmaster said that they don t have an agenda, that trump is just going to go in there and win it. how do you see this meeting going? well, i agree with you. the meeting between prime minister president
if we can t get repeal and replace together, we ll get repeal and replace separately. so in both of these cases, chris, you see the white house l line that the tweets speak for themselves, these two tweets being held up as having to speak for themselves for the last several days without a lot of cover from the white house or big events to change the subject. a lot of members of the senate, almost all of them have november public events scheduled, almost no town halls. let s bring in republican strategist there s a lot of ways to look at this, rick, one would be that this is the president trump that voters
there s a lot on how to approach the healthcare. they had plans to have action before the fourth of july recess. obviously it hasn t happened. it s unpopular. you look at a lot of coverage in the last few days, a lot of the press haven t been focused on donald trump s tweets against cnn, they have been focused on the impact on local communities. no doubt about that. thank you so much. good to see you, nick. appreciate it. we have a lot more ahead on msnbc. stay with us.
wealthiest americans to pay for steep, middle and working class tax cuts. what else can you tell us. talking about classic chris christie, classic steve bannon, zigging when republicans zag, getting a way to pay for the taxes. republicans hate this idea. no one will go along with this idea and it rivals any tax increases and it will be a battle in the trump white house and on the hill later this year as trhey try to get tax reform done. tax reform had been on the back burner and trying to get healthcare. now you a talk we do a repeal bill and worry about replacing it later. where is that going? there s not a lot on that.
credibility of the united states in these meetings and i think it sends a message to other leaders that they re not quite sure how to have a stable and consistent relationship with the president of the united states because he just comes off as too impulsive like he s winging it and the kind of crowd that he s playing to in these tweets are the sort of folks that actually don t believe in this sort of international deals and the kind of global social contract that america has been about in the past. angela merkel was out there trying to hold the trance tligs relationship together. there s a climate change pact and that has to go forward and there are also rules of global trade that have largely benefitted many of these western liberal democracies and that s very tense so it makes him look unpredictable. and when you look at the latest pugh polls, you saw donald trump s ratings and america s ratings plummet dramatically and part of that is fueled by these