and without evidence of there being a crisis. i think for all of the ample evidence of the president being undisciplined in a lot of ways, he can be very disciplined in his message, especially around an election, and i think we probably agree that this is the message until tuesday, right, is sewing fear, this idea that people are coming to the united states who will hurt americans and he, the president, will protect you. and that s consistent to what we ve seen for several days. the president was asked, john carl of abc news, asked him about his commitment during the campaign to be honest with the american people and not lie. here s what the president said. i always want to tell the truth when i can. i tell the truth. sometimes it turns out to be where something happens, it s different or there s a change, but i always like to be truthful. when i can. those are the words everybody s i like to be truthful when i can. what do you make of that? we sit here on any given day
brought up were 20,000 americans troops stationed in south korea. the north long argued its missile program is essential to defend itself by an invasion of those or other troops. however, today in singapore, defense secretary james mattis said that issue will not be on the agenda for the june 12th summit. if we can reduce the threat, if we can restore confidence building measures with something verifiable, then, of course, these kind of issues can come up subsequently. that issue is not on the table here in singapore on the 12th, nor should it be. so u.s. troop levels are not off the table altogether and president trump suggested he could be open to it as well when he ordered the pentagon to come up with options for reducing u.s. sources in south korea earlier in may. we ve already seen though how china is going to play a big role in these negotiations. you ll remember, kim jong-un
somehow is doing this on a whim, that s just false. and people are going to realize probably after the june 12th summit, that we re dealing that president trump is a master negotiator who thought this true, and has exceeded the last three presidents in terms of what he s been able to do. elizabeth: could you have ever predicted this? and my final question is how do this story end? i mean, i know it s a shot in the dark to seen ask you, but i m curious. well, it s not known, and president trump has already begun to layout. if there isn t progress at the first, what he s now calling the first summit, there will be others. so i think he and his team are anticipating problems with verification, you know, when will the first weapon be identified and then cut up. will the north koreans do it? do they want u.n. inspectors to come in, americans to come in. elizabeth: and what is it,
performance and record and rat is on our side, they are defending more races than we are, when people go to the voting booth they will think about not only the national condition but their personal condition and they will say i am better off under a republican and it is a fact the majority of americans believe our best days are ahead of us and feel good about the future. elizabeth: brad brings up a good point, republicans are at a disadvantage, history will tell us that. the anti-trump campaign, is that going to be working between now and november when we are seeing positive growth? democrats are not running unjust and anti-trump message. elizabeth: some of them are. they are talking about healthcare, taxes, they are talking about their differences with the president but mostly talking about what they are going to do to help people lives. this goes back to the point i made earlier. this is about how people are dealing with their own personal economic well-being so if your
a month, still good, not as good. the truth is that is only 15% of americans right now say there income is increasing faster than cost-of-living and that is a real problem. if you ignore the fact that healthcare is rising for a lot of americans gas prices rising, cost of living getting more expensive and if you only focus on these macroeconomic indicators you miss what is happening in the country with people and that is a huge political oversight for trump that he did understand previously but now that he is president he thinks job numbers are real and before they were fake, he ignores that at his own peril. elizabeth: some people being left behind, we see the administration with headlines, during bring jobs back and working in the united states. do you agree? . josh is the boy who cried will.