the history of world war i and world war ii that it is these economic coalitions that led to the eu. these things that led into nato that really kept us safe from russian aggression. there is u.s. troops right now in eastern europe and lit whuan similar to what we saw in the ukraine. he fails to understand the sacrifice at the tackty dal level and how the affects of our alliances kept these troops safe for a long time. that s a place where he failed as chief. until he gets out in the field, he s not going to understand it. it s gotten to be so toxic with our allies. even though they threw him a military parade. but that s fallen apart quickly. donald trump tweeted on friday very upset that president macron at france suggested europe might need to build its own military
african-americans, particularly african-american men to go out and mow down the obama family. i would be interested to see if she paid for that, if that was one of the reasons people remember that kind of thing. i want to pay birtherism was the thing that made donald trump a national political figure. he had been trying to run for president since the 1980s. here is michelle obama talking about the birther conspiracy. i will read it. it was crazy and mean spirited. of course it is underlining bigotry hardly concealed. but it was also dangerous. she continues. what if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and went to washington? donald trump was putting my family s safety at risk. for this, i would never forgive him. we know there was someone that fired at the white house. there were people that drove
rain wasn t rain. it was bullets. trump is scheduled to speak at american cemetery in a moment. you can see it there. we will continue to monitor it and keep you posted on what he said. joining me now, my panel. thank you all for being here this morning. i m going to go to john first on this because i just want you to just explain for anyone, you know, in the audience who may not know, but i m sure most people do, what it means to veterans for an american president to visit a cemetery like the one that donald trump did not attend because of the rain. what does that mean to american veterans? yes. it s not a political event. i mean, i think this was a moment for him to highlight what veteran s day was about, which is the end of world war i. most americans don t know veterans day was an evolution
sara, stick around. we are monitoring donald trump s remarks in france and we will bring you any relevant developments, if they happen. next up, michelle obama talks about how donald trump put her family at risk. that s next.
perhaps because he s afraid of you and the fact that you aren t afraid of him and the fact that you will now wield the gavel on the house financial services committee in all likelihood. you ve talked about things like impeachment but you ve also more recently talked about things like deutsch bank and looking into money laundering. that could get you very close to the donald trump finances. do you intend i ve asked you this before, but what are your intentions as the chair woman of that committee regarding donald trump s finances and his tax returns? well, first of all so let me just say that it is a very important committee of the house of representatives where a lot of big issues. we re working on dodd-frank reform issues trying to make sure that we don t go into another recession. we lmts wealmost went into a den in 2008. first of all, we have to be concerned about the big financial institutions of america. we also have hud in that committee. i m concerned about fair housing an