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 as the president n their words, being irreverent or extemporaneous. but they know there are real consequences for these kinds of comments. we are going to come back to the politics of it because it is an interesting question about fellow republicans right now. jeremy bash, to you. given your life work in this realm, what is the real danger? it was said today the word honor will have great meaning when it rattles around and reaches north korea. the great danger brian in this is that kim jong-un wil
military going back to a young age when he went to new york military academy. he has always ven rated 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 as the president n their words, being irreverent or extemporaneous. but they know there are real consequences for these kinds of comments. we are going to come back to the politics of it because it is an interesting question about fellow republicans right now. jeremy bash, to you. given your life work in this realm, what is the real danger? it was said today the word honor will have great meaning when it rattles around and reaches north korea. the great danger brian in
troubled upon learning this. reporter: yeah, there s a lot to clean up here. i don t know at this point anybody can, but now we re hearing from the white house saying there is a problem here. we see them walking back step by step those repeated denials that this was discussed with the russian ambassador, not only by flynn himself but also by the vice president. listen. they did not discuss anything have to do with the united states decision to expel diplomats or impose censor against russia. did they have any kfr conversation on those days or any other days? they did not have extemporaneous. reporter: this subject didn t come up, so the president couldn t be asked directly, what he knew about it.
i think he stepped on the entire message of his 100-day plan by calling these women liars and threatening to take legal action and furthering the talk of a rigged system in a dishonest media. the first ten minutes of his speech stepped on the entire message of what he was trying to go for. a lot of media coverage tomorrow and the rest of today is going to be focused on the negative parts of the speech as opposed to what i saw as positive. so, doug, when you look at the structure of his speech, it was, again, scripted. you could tell he was going off the prompter, because he always delivers a little differently than if everything was kind of extemporaneous. he is not likely the one who crafted that speech. what was the mission behind having it kind of top-heavy with his sentiments about the conspiracy theories and then going after the women who accused him of sexual misconduct and then buried behind that would be the big rollout of his
event tomorrow and there have been concerns about the things he can t control, physicality, the height differential between the two, the fact that they re different in how they relate to people. neither one of them is bill clinton famously talking about when something bad happens in my state there s a good chance i ll know their name. and he s not the kind of politician who loves roaming warned a microphone. politicians like christie like roaming around with a microphone. trump has gestures, he s at a lecturn, it s a performance, it s somewhat studied even as it s extemporaneous. the town hall will be different for trump. it s made a lot of candidates stumble. we think of george h.w. bush in 92 looking at his watch. like he had something better to. do robert costa, thank you so much as always. katy tur on the vegas strip, that you can. we know it s been a long trip already. coming up for us, the man who crafted some of the most powerful words in recent presidential politics tell