take a listen to some of the things the vice president said about the president. i m deeply humbled as your vice president to be able to be here. thank you for those kind words and thank you for your leadership. in president donald trump i think the united states once again has a president whose vision, spirit is reminiscent of teddy roosevelt. my greatest privilege to serve to a president who embodies american leadership. the book is entitled the art of the deal. and it s actually an american classic. i don t think he provided an amazon link. american classic. the art of the deal. right up there with huckleberry finn. it s an american tradition. a job. an american tradition. right. but has he taken it too far? yeah. i think he has taken it too far. george s a very principled person, observing politics for a
securing their release. all a direct result of the strong and clear leadership that president trump reporter: in a parade of interviews, pence keeping the focus off the scandals at home and on the potential achievements abroad. president trump found a way to communicate in terms i believe that kim jong-un could finally hear. he could hear that this president was serious about achieving the objective that has alluded the world community for a quarter century. i think we sent a pretty strong message to iran this week when the president made the decision to withdraw from their iran nuclear deal. reporter: as pence on air defending trump, taking a broadside from a fellow conservative columnist george will what lambasted pence calling him america s most repulsive american fig chur. trump is what he is,
inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and pathetic. pence is what he has chosen to be, horrifying. pence seems to be brushing off the criticism. keeping his eye on the upcoming summit of the president and kim jong-un in singapore. i think the president senses an opening that may result in a historic agreement. jake, it is hard to ignore the backdrop there. mike pence at the air force base with the president welcoming back the freed americans trying to keep the focus on north korea and the iran deal and still having to answer for the scandals that are facing the trump administration, the mueller investigation and what s going on with michael cohen. now, he and the president will appear tonight at a rally in pence s home state of indiana together. jake? all right. thank you so much. my political panel joins me now. david, i want to read another line from george s. will s scathing op-ed. this is a conservative. if this is from a liberal i would not be reading this.
this is from a fellow conservative. titled trump is no longer the worst person in government. not a fan of the president. what does he really think? mike pence with appetite could trump knew become america s most repulsive public figure. what do you make of this broadside against the vice president? i think completely unfounded. the vice president is a really solid man, a great politician, a great he s a great public servant. doing great things for this country. the attack is uncalled for. it s unkind. it s unfair. i mean, i could go on and on. george will s never a fan of this president to begin with so for him to write this is not surprising and to be really so mean spirited about the whole thing is quite surprising and not very nice at all. not certainly not nice. no one s going to dispute that. that it s not nice. kerstin, he refers to pence as, quote, governing by groveling.