charlatan? with me now, jackie kucinich, and michael d antonio. former cia director john brennan, is he right? is the president s tweet indicative of paranoia, increased anxiety and panic? i think it s more attacks on the president to be honest. john brennan, even though he s a former cia director, he has partisan leanings as well. certainly doesn t support the president and is trying to attack the president every chance he gets. but i mean did that tweet inspire confidence in you in the president? look, the president says things sometimes to get a reaction. you know, people make a big deal about the jokes that he made the other night at the gridiron event, and they were certainly just jokes. so i think some of it just gets blown out of proportion every time, and sometimes the president doesn t always phrase things the right way. but that s how he gets his message across to his base. michael, you know the president. what s your take on his tweeting and continuing fascinati and
this tweet is a great example of your paranoia, constant misrepresentation of the facts, and increased anxiety and panic, rightly so, about the mueller investigation. when will those in congress and the 30% of americans who still support you realize you are a charlatan? with me now, jackie kucinich, tara setmayer, jim schultz, and michael d antonio. jim, former cia director john brennan, is he right? is the president s tweet indicative of paranoia, increased anxiety and panic? i think it s just more partisan attacks on the president to be honest. john brennan, even though he s a former cia director, he has partisan leanings as well. certainly doesn t support the president and is trying to attack the president every chance he gets. but i mean did that tweet inspire confidence in you in the president? look, the president says things sometimes to get a reaction. you know, people make a big deal about the jokes that he made the other night at the gridiron event, and they were certain
the president said in a joking manner last night, but to specifically these comments regarding xi jinping. like so many of his jokes, they have an itch. i think the joke has an edge, obviously, if you re in china, if you would hear this joke, you wouldn t find it funny. it lends support to a regime which is doing the wrong thing and here in the united states, it has an edge because it s part of an ongoing story, ongoing series of messages we have heard throughout his administration about authoritarianism and his distain in some ways for free institution. so a joke like that, when it comes from president trump, is loaded and it comes in the context of all these other remarks we have heard from him. samantha, i want to bring you in because it wasn t just china that the president was talking about last night at this gridiron event, which, of course, does have comedy mixed in. the president was talking about north korea.