he gave an interview before he landed where he supported boris johnson and undermined teresa may on her way out the door. for a lot of people, that interview just played. the clip across the american cemetery at normandy. the head stones where he attacked not just pelosi, but robert mueller who himself was a decorated war hero. senator boxer, this is new stuff and i don t like it. it s like he had an awful gas exhaust pipe, a pretty car with an awful exhaust pipe. we have exhaust and the fumes from the five days. this is a sick person and there is no private trump and public trump with all due respect. it s all trump. when he s on tv with the backdrop and the graves of our most incredible heroes and i was there. i went to normandy with my husband. every single politician has a big ego.
vossoughian. i m nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennett in for ayman mohyeldin. during what was largely a solemn day of remembrance president trump lobbed political attacks while on sacred ground thursday. during an interview with fox news at an american military cemetery in france to commemorate d-day trump alleged special counsel robert mueller testified which to public knowledge he has not and then sent a letter about it. the president tossed out disparaging comments and nicknames about mueller and democrats all with the backdrop of rows of head stones. they thought their good friend bobby mueller would give them a great report. it came out with a report with 13 horrible angry democrats biassed against me. do you mind if he was the? he made such a fool of himself the last time because
that s the great triumph of world war ii. it transformed a germany that had been a menace for many generations. that germany now embraces the idea of being part of the european union. this is a piece that really transformed a continent that hadn t known peace. the end of world war i brought more chaos. almost predicted world war ii. the young men whose graves are behind us, probably were fighting to survive. they just wanted to go home. but the peace that they created with their bravery endures to this minute. that s it. that s it. these head stones behind us are literally, it s no stretch history, that these head stones behind us are the building blocks for the alliances that keep us safe today, that keep
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statement that anti-semitism is bad is certainly to be appreciated, but let s see if there is any follow-up and let s hope that there are not more incidents that he needs to respond to. and it s worth noting the governor of missouri a republican where the cemetery incident took place is actually he said in a statement today he personally is going to go and help clean up that cemetery and encourage other missourians to do the same. that s something that donald trump could very well do in his own way. we re showing our viewers pictures of that cemetery in university city, missouri where the head stones of dozens and dozens of head stones were simply destroyed. it s an ugly scene. it happens to be a traditional, unfortunately going back centuries, a traditional anti-semitic act to go tie jewish cemetery and des crate it. and the fact that it s happened right in missouri is an awful, awful moment right there. all right. let s take a quick break. much more of our coverage right after