buchanan was more of a social conservative in fact than trump is. but that is a recesssive gene, i agree with you, recesssive. but no question, from 1996 to today that portion of the party has gotten bigger, stronger, louder, more central to republican nomination politics. pat, the set of issues and the grievance at the court of it, the basic white grievance core of it and the party has gone down scale. it is less educated than it was 20 years ago. it is the party of the white working class now. and the question is, so maybe trump isn t the leader for it going forward and maybe joe is right there isn t another donald trump out there. but is the genie out of the bottle to the point where this has become the dominant gene in the party and everybody maybe it is not a trump wannabe, but that anybody who hopes to be the republican nominee has to tap into that part of the party because it is now so big and strong? so energize. and have the commitments to democracy, the rule of law,
whole bill or demand a kis b koubt, you don t have to worry about your on going crede bability or the next deal f. you do that, you can bet he won t ayes to do cabinets in your next casino. but there s always another. there s another canada. there also isn t another germany. and a treaty. that is what the president said about our, here s what the president said about our defense and security treaty with nato last night. i said you know angela, i can t garruarantee it, but we r protecting you and it means a lot more to you than protecting you. actually, you can guarantee it. that s what a treaty is for. and the only time that was ever invoked, of 9/11 when all other nato members came to the defense
this isn t another administration that never got it ted and therefore never got it done. paul: that was president trump in singapore tuesday following his summit with north korean leader kim jong un. the historic-one day meeting with signing, critics called vague, was the summit a photo-op or something more? we are back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn and wall street journal editorial board mary kissel, so bill, summit big pr success for sure, the president dominated the world stage, what about substance? how successful in. well, we don t know. we know that president kim in theory has agreed to complete denuclearization, look, this where i depart from ronald reagan, i was never a trust and verify guy. i m a distrust and verify guy. there should be a lot of skepticism. [laughter] that said for all the criticism, everything that donald trump does comes with a lot of noise, it s like the
this isn t the past. this isn t another administration that never got it started and therefore never got it done. paul: that was president trump in singapore tuesday following his summit with north korean leader kim jong un. the historic-one day meeting with signing, critics called vague, was the summit a photo-op or something more? we are back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn and wall street journal editorial board mary kissel, so bill, summit big pr success for sure, the president dominated the world stage, what about substance? how successful in. well, we don t know. we know that president kim in theory has agreed to complete denuclearization, look, this where i depart from ronald reagan, i was never a trust and verify guy. i m a distrust and verify guy. there should be a lot of skepticism. [laughter] that said for all the criticism, everything that donald trump does comes with a
does trust him. i believe he wants to get it done. yrust him? i do trust him, yeah. i think he trusts me and i trust him. reporter: ability the president acknowledging that while past deals with the regime have failed, this time is different. this isn t the past. this isn t another administration that never got it started and therefore never got it done. this i a much differentde. his is much differepresident in. it is very important to me. and waiving off concerns he s favoring america s enemies over allies following discord at the g7 this week. however he did call out canadian prime minister justin trudeau for criticizing u.s. tariffs. calling him, quote, obnoxious. i actually like justin. i think he s good. i like him. but he shouldn t have done that. that was a mistake. that will cost him a lot money. reporter: so with this concession of ending the joint exercises on the korean peninsula, the president did stop short of saying that he would withdraw u.s. troops from