Face the nation. John, those are pretty strong words coming from the chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee. What do you make of senator corkers remarks questioning the president s stability and competence . First, who is senator corker . He is not one of the usual suspects, whos always criticizing the president. He has been golfing with the president. He is not by temperament somebody rushing out and saying the sky is falling. But in this instance, he says if the president doesnt solve his problems, our nation is going to go through great peril. So where this is coming from, is extraordinary, and the critique he is making is a thorough one. Its not just something he tossed off. Mason he said the president needs to move beyond himself. What do you take that to mean . Hes identified the locus of the Program Inside the president himself and the reason that is so damning is this is a critique people have had about candidate trump and then President Trump, his impulsiveness tha
South carolina what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority. That moral authority is compromised. Reporter while the president has avoided cameras for the past two days, he has not been silent. Today on twitter, he swiftly condemned the barcelona attack and suggested his followers, study what general pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. A reference to a debunked urban legend mr. Trump told during the campaign about American General John Pershings alleged slaughter of muslim soldiers in the philippines. What they did was, they cut open two pigs and they dumped the bullets into the pigs. And they took the bullets and they stood the 50 men up, and they shot each man. Reporter the president s Quick Response to the barcelona attack was a sharp contrast to the days it took him to condemn a white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring 19 others. Today, the president also bemoaned the removal of what h