new york times amy habermann she joins us now. takes us back from his speech in alabama where he relives this thing will be nfl. what we learned in the course of reporting the president literally did just throw this in at the rally. it was not planned out in yeefts. nope. or aids or in the teleprompter. nope. he threw it out there as he did during the campaign. he like the way the crowd responded. on the plan ride back he liked the way it did and basically he was going to stick with this throughout the weekend. he talked with a couple of people, he had a small group of advisers in bed minister, and he asked a few members what he thought of this nfl issue. every single time it was nope, this is great with my base, i think this is a good thing i m going to keep doing it. he did it again at a white house dinner with attendees, he said
mute on it. now, what you see is president donald trump at a rally in alabama raise this issue. and there are certain things calls con attended consequences. as dr. west pointed out the beauty he articulated, white brothers and sisters joining together locking arms in the name of what colin kaepernick originally doing because i believe the president is challenging the norms. he has become a catalyst for this conversation. so it actually is to dr. west s point an unattended consequence of his statement which i still believe to be factual. i have no problem with colin kaepernick or the rest of the people that are protesting, wanting to and sand and solidarity with those people who have been victimized repeatedly by the system. that s why a lot of republican servants have joined hands to talk about reform because it s a bipartisan issue that said i
we saw him in the rose garden saying it is indeed nonbinding. we talked about solar panels on the wall. when you have a president putting all of this out there and then tweeting this bomb but not doing interviews and not, you know, doing briefings on camera, we can t push him. where s the accountability? well, he s throwing everything at the wall, really. you just mentioned three or four different items. now you ve got a health care bill that is sitting in the senate and now we re back to tapes and james comey and russia. it doesn t seem like there s a concerted communications strategy. and frankly, that s a whole completely other story about who s really running the communications department and who is going to run the communications document. i think this shows a complete flaw, a direct flaw of a communications strategy, what message you want to drive on any single day. i think the iowa rally, you know, it did i think that does help the president to put him out in the crowds that
to say you don t cure a child molester, you don t cure these people. you don t cure a child molester. that was just one among a few stunning statements from trump overnight at a 95-minute rambling iowa rally, he used a swear word vowing to bomb the heck out of isis. he didn t say heck. trump even asked if anyone in the crowd had a knife to help him demonstrate carson s story of trying stab someone. more now from cnn s athena jones with the trump campaign. reporter: good morning, john and christine. one of the first things trump said when he took the stage here at ft. dodge is that the gloves are off. he spent several minutes raising doubts about the stories carson