does after one of these incidents, we ve said respectfully, john, is the larger we is look for some consistency. if he was trying to do this, why did he do that? because he does whatever he wants in any ten-minute increment of time. his objective is different than what his government s objective is, we have seen that time and again. another thing that democrats do after one of these big conflagrations and say this is it, surely this is it, surely this is the moment the tables turn, surely this is the moment where the rules of gravity still apply and, you know, i think that because he had to walk it back or whatever that was and because fox news turned on him, some of his biggest cheerleaders. because he stood side by side with vladimir putin and said america was to blame and blamed america for stupidity and foolishness and i m wondering, maggie, do you think something shifted in the atmosphere permanently on monday?
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anthony scaramucci, his public. stay was to push the president to do what he did. anthony scaramucci s suggestion was stronger than what the president did. well they got what they asked for to an extent and now they ll walk back. it seems to me they ll say okay, let s move on to something else. that s right and if past is prelude that is what they will do. i would say it was more than ham-handed execution. you could argue it was disingenuous execution based on what we ve seen since but it doesn t matter, it will give republicans something to point to and say he dealt with it, which we saw rand paul and newt gingrich do. he dealt with it. come on that was desperate and panicked and flaccid. there you go. maggie, thank you. thank you. there is a pill for that. just saying.
yeah. nice article 5 you got, be a shame if anything happened to it. look, he is not as with all things, when donald trump speaks off the cuff or when the twitter trump persona comes forward, that s the real donald trump. everything else is bunting and official statements that will be quickly dispersed with so the problem is when he dised montenegro as an example of why would we get involved in a war for one of the nato allies he not only undercuts the concept of collective security, he parrots vladimir putin s talking points who has been particularly irritated about montenegro s arrival within the nato sphere and all those smaller baltic nations that border russia. that s where the danger is and the president is validating his perspective saying why would we want to go to war for folks like that? they have russian connection. they don t contribute that much. so it s deeply undermining if as maggie says the goal was to calm the international community. one of the things everybody
critics over and over again such as after charlottesville. the travel ban is another, there s a bunch of examples from last year we can list. this was much more like frankly access hollywood for two reasons, there was a tape of it, it s very hard for him to say even though he did try a, he put it on himself, you re misunderstanding me, you re taking me out of context. with access hollywood and this press conference it was pretty clear what people heard and in both case he is moved relatively quickly to deal with it but it s a half measure at best and he clearly didn t want to do it. one bit of news from maggie is this was designed for u.s. allies and, john, if that was the case i feel like the montenegro betrayal that we saw overnight when he basically said we don t really need to defend montenegro, i don t think we should, that probably undercuts any sort of security sense he was providing.