president trump being critical of puerto rico with brian class, a fellow and comparative politics at the london school of economics. thank you for being with us. my pleasure. certainly this president has been criticized widely for tweets, but this this is almost surreal that you have an island in crisis, people suffering, we have four reporters on the ground that have been reporting on that and the resourcefulness of the people pulling together to try to help each other out through these tremendously horrible times and suddenly the president doesn t like that puerto rico is saying, please help us, please hurry, and he puts down this may, we just saw, he puts down the people, he says they re not doing enough to help themselves, they re expecting people to come help them, it is almost surreal that that was the response of the u.s. president to an island that is suffering so.
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nothing extraordinary. so what s the reason for debates on new sanctions? well, that s evidence for the fact that there is internal political struggle this the u.s. what s the reason? what s the possible reason for sanctions? more sanctions, or tighter sanctions on russia? joining us now, brian class, author the despot s accomplice, how the west is aiding and abetting the decline of democracy. he is a fellow of comparative politics at the american school of economics. is that a typical vladimir putin appearance where he just pretends to be utterly oblivious to large and obvious truths? and is that something that he gets away with with the russian population who don t necessarily have access to the full information. absolutely. it is striking he was on rta glorified kremlin propaganda
with brian class, a fellow in comparative politics at the london school of economics. it s a barometer of how effective the president is at delivering on his campaign promises. it is somewhat arbitrary but is holding the president to the standard he set for himself. trump set out a contract with the american voter in and he said that he would pass or aim to pass ten major bills by the end of the first 100 days. he s currently 0-10, and we re just a week away from the 100-day milestone. it s important to check in and see how he s delivering on his promises or, in this case, how he s failed to deliver on them. we heard the things that the president has succeeded on. a supreme court nominee. at the same time, the things that have not come to fruition at this point given your read of what you have seen happen. how has this new how is this new u.s. president doing? reporter: well, i think there s two major things that trump has done in the first 100 days that are positive.
deemed to be unlawful by the court. and so as a result of itrying . but the irony is that trump tweeted that the judges were holding up national security and that he would blame them if a terror attack happened as a result. but now they are waiting. so the narratives are somewhat blurred in terms of is this really essential for national security and if so why the hold up. brian class, london school of economics, thank you for joining us. and coming up here, we will hear from some trump supporters about some of these allegations. that is coming up here on our newscast. plus an alleged fake jobs scandal is erupting around presidential candidate marine le pen. that is ahead as well. getting heartburn doesn t mean i means i take rolaids®. rolaids® goes to work instantly neutralizing 44% more acid than tums® for fast, powerful relief