cozies up to authoritarians and disregards our allies, and that is a foreign policy with which i have profound disagreements. that s why i have to leave. not that he thinks just trump is freelancing, but trump has a world view. trump adopted the america first slogan from 1940 and we all thought, well, it s just talk. for two years it s been an awful lot of america first talk but the institutions and cabinet secretaries constrained him to some degree. this is why this is an important moment. we re moving from america first talk to america first action. . america fest was about coddling dictators. they are sympathetic to the fascists in europe and abandoning allies.
fine. did you see the economic impact could be devastating? yeah. i don t believe it. no, no, i don t believe it. part of a pattern that you re familiar with, i m sure, where the president disregards facts in favor of whatever reality he finds most politically or personally expedient at the moment. vaccines cause autism. that s false, but he believes it. he saw multiple new jersey muslims celebrating 9/11 on television. that s false, but he believes it. the list goes on and on. now the consequences are literally life and death. and the president is ignoring the conclusions of the experts who work in his administration. such as the cia s assessment that saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman was behind the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi or the intelligence community s conclusion that russia sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. cnn s pamela brown is at the white house. pamela, the white house rebuttal follows this pattern of not
america s place in it but what does the world think of donald trump well the u.s. based a pew research center has just published their annual global survey in which they put that question and many others to people in twenty five countries the results show mr trump s international approval rating remains low or just twenty seven percent with seventy percent saying they have no confidence in him or people surveyed were also concerned about america s role in world affairs with a big majority believing that the u.s. disregards the interests of other countries when deciding foreign policy well jacob pushed or is a senior researcher at the pew research center he s also co-author of its latest global survey he joins us from d.w. washington studio welcome so america s global image plummeted after president trump was elected and remains poor nearly two years later why does that matter.
has had more turnover of cabinet-level positions than any president at this point in their presidency in the last 100 years, julie. what does that say about how this administration is functioning? well, i think it says two things. one, in this case, i think if you ask donald trump, he would say that scott pruitt was the best person to run epa, which shows you what a narrow view he had of what a cabinet member needs to do. i mean, you heard him talk about, within the four walls of the epa, he was doing great work in the president s eyes. but outside of the agency, if you are running your agency in a way that disregards the law and disregards, you know, the public trust, that most presidents would not see that as a good member of the cabinet. secondly, i think it really is this administration s lack of vetting, just coming back to really bite them. because so many of the people who have had to leave in disgrace or amid a cloud of scandal, it was a question of not having known somethi
secretary of state would weigh in on something. cory booker of new jersey, senator booker brought up lgbt issues with this candidate. talk to me about that. what s the take away for the american people on that? there are various perspectives on that issue. the problem i find, we saw some democrats ask really serious questions, on china, for exampl example. the problem is cory booker and others who are either trying to gin up their base, playing to those cards, it undercuts the notion that america has a role in terms of its members of congress asking tough questions of the executive branch about matters of importance. clearly when you are interviewing someone who wants to be the next chief diplomat of the united states, i would suggest the lgbtq rights are not as serious concerns as russia or china or iran or our allies that senator booker claims president trump so disregards. harris: sure.