during president obama s tenure, nbc news peter alexander questioned white house press secretary sarah huck by sanders on whether president obama actually deserves some credit? look the president has raised the bar for our nation s aviation s safety and security. he certainly is very grateful. last 82er the president announced his initiative to modernize air traffic control and under his leadership the department of homeland security released enhanced security measures to ensure safer air travel. look the president is very happy there were no commercial airline deaths in 2017. we hope that trends continues well into 2018 and beyond. so john heilemann, he has a huge nuclear arsenal with a huge button and rescued the airline industry. not bad for a day s work, isn t snit. a number of people say
but i think we ought to do it in a smart way, which is criticize, in private, and work with them in public. and i think finally i would say that it s crucial that we maintain this cooperation with pakistan who themselves experience kind of a 9/11 event every six months in their nation. they have two, three, four, five, 6,000 people killed in a given year in terrorism incidents. they understand well the problems on that border. calling them out publicly as the president has done is not good strategy. a lot of hot spots going on in the world. things are happening at the moment and they seem to come back to this administration and the white house. the trump administration yesterday also addressed the recent unrest in iran. it takes great bravery for the iranian people to use the power of their voice against their government, especially when their government has a long history of murdering its own
presidents take credit over things they don t have total control over. we haven t had a total fatality since 2009 and the faa was run by barack obama holdover from 20p 18, there were no commercial airlines in the world in 2017. donald trump has no control over global airline safety. but the key issue is the danger for all presidents when they take credit for things they have nothing to do with, do they get the blame equally for things they have nothing to do with it if a plane falls out of the sky, does he have to take the blame for that? when you take credit for things you have achieved, people are so enyoured for you taking credit they don t believe you anymore? he taps the stockmarket on a fear daily basis for record highs, as soon as let s say we have a bump in that and a decline, is he going to say, that s my fault? that seems unlikely knowing how this president works.
has struck towards mueller. so i m not sure what s really causing this. i think that was the question everyone was asking last night and this morning, what s behind this sudden torrent of tweets. it seems that often something that is causing stress in the white house precipitates an outburst like this. coming up, president trump has taken credit for the strong job market, the high stockmarket and for people saying merry christmas. now apparently the lack of fatal plane crashes last year was all him, too. morning joe will be right back. i wanted to know who i am and where i came from. i did my ancestrydna and i couldn t wait to get my pie chart. the most shocking result was that i m 26% native american.
with this pakistani problem by deciding to keep their toe in the water, as it were, maintain lines of communication and not alienate the government. what is the president s strategy with islamabad as you can see it? is there a strategy or is this all impulse? let me start by saying i spent four years as the supreme allied commander in nato in charge of the afghanistan operation. i yield to no man in my occasional frustration with pakistan and their two-sided game on that border. that is real. on the other hand, what should we do about it? as a general proposition, that kind of grandiose criticism, again, back to the tweets, calling out a nation in that kind of language from the white house, cutting the money is less the issue than the pride and the way pakistanis perceive themselves. of course, this has led to demonstrations all over pakistan. so, i m in favor of kind of tough love with pakistan.