down the drain. so, gene robinson, i m going to read from your column, which really kind of characterizes where we re at right now with this president. there are those who entertain the fantasy that trump will get bored or frustrated and eventually resign. but he s already bored and frustrated with the drudgery of governing and he has developed coping mechanisms. he stages campaign-style rallies, chews out his hapless staff, vents on twitter. when he invited house members to celebrate that awful health care bill he interrupted the speech to say, hey, i m president. can you believe it, right? he s not going to voluntarily give that up. if news reports are correct, is he mulling a substantial shakeup of his white house staff. but no communications team is going to look good while having to defend the crazy, indefensible things trump regularly says. he is not going to change. we are where we are. democrats need to flip one or both houses of congress next
with the russians. clint, does that wash? no. he only does this with russia. who else does he share with, compliment or try to help? maybe turkey s leader when he comes today. he only responds to authoritarians. he grandizes them. he wants to hurt those who help us and help those who hurt us. it doesn t make sense to go to the russians to try to impress them to help us in that fight. david ignatius, what s your response to the president s latest tweets? i think he does have the right to share, declassify intelligence. that s what presidents get to do, as he chooses it. there are very few limits on it. we trust in his discretion. on that point, you ve got to give it to him. on the larger point, president trump is trying to partner in some way with russia and syria. there are deep doubts about
the president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. at no time at no time were intelligent sources or methods discussed and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. two other senior officials who were present, including the secretary of state, remember the meeting the same way and have said so. on the record accounts should outweigh those anonymous sources. i was in the room. it didn t happen. general mcmaster did not take any questions, walked away after making that statement. and the washington post and others were quick to point out that his denial was pointed at something the story was not about, at no time were methods and resources discussed. senior white house officials seemed to recognize quickly that trump had overstepped and moved to contain the potential
the billboard music awards. sunday, may 21st eight seven central only on abc. when i spoke with putin, he asked me whether or not i would see lavrov. should i say no, i m not going to see him? i said i will see him. during that discussion with lavrov, i think we had a great discussion having to do with syria, having to do with ukraine and maybe that discussion will lead to a lot less people getting killed and will lead ultimately to peace. president trump disclose his meeting with sergey lavrov came at the suggestion of russian president vladimir putin in a phone call two weeks ago. so putin wanted it. joining us now, senior national security adviser for nbc news and chairman and co-founder of financial integrity network juan zarate, former spokesperson and
it s not helpful that this was with the russians. it s just weird. they want to exacerbate our internal distrust of each other. putin is the enemy of the freedom of speech, press and assembly, the beatinging heart of what america means. there s technical stuff that happened in this meeting we don t yet know about. one of the basic duties of someone in a public office and has a public trust responsibility should be to be celebrating what america is about and to be telling that story. right now, washington isn t doing any of that. the vanishing american adult: our coming of age crisis and how to rebuild a culture of self reliance. senator ben sasse, thank you for being on the show. thank you for what you do every day. we have much more on the president tweeting moments zblag and saying i appreciate what he s doing every day. willie, of course, you know i m talking about juggling. the juggling was amazing. impressive. very good. can you walk on your hands? i don t think i m