general demeanor that the president seems to have. he will not be critical of almost anything that russia does, and obviously that then fuels all the questions that are at the center of this ongoing investigation. this president, we ve noted it many times, he uses words differently than other presidents have before. you know, and we import maybe too much meaning sometimes the things the president says. i wonder if in all of these cases the president says what he s feeling at the time, and then the strategy or the message comes after the fact. or is there a message and a strategy and the president is being extemporaneous. i don t know what is first. i don t think the strategy is so well thought through. what we re learning is his comments on north korea were not well planned. it wasn t something that his own generals knew about. so there s often a search with president trump for some kind of meeting or strategy behind
resident, you get the first question tonight. not to go all carl gustav ben-young on everybody, but everyone talking all today about fascination with strong men. it s beginning to look like it actually may be a thing. because the list is getting longer. the comments you have to be really careful not to just casually criticize some of these people. he has taken pains in other instances to say something positive. the president s fascination with these kind of figures is something you can trace back to his fascination with the military going back to a young age when he went to new york military academy. he has always venerated military culture. he has spoken favorably about vladimir putin and now some of these more recent comments about other figures around the world who are totalitarian or dictators themselves. this is raising some concern here on capitol hill about what this means for u.s. foreign policy. republicans tonight aring the me, brian, that they are trying to shrug it off