it was the worst quarter since 1930. the month he took office, 800,000 jobs were lost. and the economy was on the precipice of another great depression. and i remember those days very clearly. so i don t begrudge any president feeling like they ve got a lot to deal with, but this president was by any objective standard, was dealt a much better handle than the last president. yeah. david, under 5% unemployment, four point percent and maybe about 10,000 u.s. troops right now deployed to iraq and afghanistan. yeah. that was just another deflection tactic to sort of get away from the stories that have been consuming this white house, they ve been under seenl thiege week, and he clearly got so frustrated with the coverage, he said we re going to do a press conference today because this is what worked to well for him in the campaign. it reminded me of his phone
proportionate response to russia. because we cannot allow the very core of our constitutional process, our democratic elections to be attacked in this way. at the press conference president trump said that he s been too he rejected that he was too soft on russia. it was obama administration and secretary of state hillary clinton that are to blame. what do you think of that argument? i will separate two things, wolf. one is how he reacted to this the conclusion of our intelligence communities that russia hacked this election and he basically just dismissed him. you had to force him to say it was a bad thing. he had has much harsher words for the cast of the play hamilton than he has for vladimir putin since he has been elected and i find that odd and
i m just telling you you re dishonest people. i m not ranting and raving. i m having a good time doing it. tomorrow the headlines will be, donald trump rants and raves. i m not ranting and raving. and, of course, the other inconsistency, wolf, as the president is going off on leaks from his administration to the news media, it was donald trump, candidate donald trump during the campaign who said he loved wikileaks, those leaks coming. according to the u.s. intelligence committee from russian operatives to wikileaks to his campaign that was used to damage hillary clinton during the course of that election cycle and not to mention the fact that one news conference in late july in florida one of his golf courses he invited the russians he said he was only joking later on. but he invited the russians to kind the find the, quote/unquote, missing hillary clinton e-mails. you also, jim, you pressed
make heads or tails of it because i don t even know what they re saying. he raised the prospect of one-state solution. one-state solution means israel basically abassociates the west bank, 2.7 million palestinians, there are israelis even the president said maybe we should do that. but we would have to make them equal citizens, give them the vote. what would that mean for the future of israel as a jewish state. there are settlers who will say we re not going to give them vote, or mini government over here. some people call that apartheid. so that s what the one-state debate is about. and just to sort of drop that in a press conference something that is in opposition to american foreign policy since 1967 and then the very next day your u.n. ambassador says, no, no, we re still committed to that because you know what happened, all the arab
heard anything from officials. pretty amazing, jim, that it was the white house that once again stepped in because otherwise who knows how long it would have lasted. and i can only imagine that perhaps one of these personal one of these personal e-mails somehow was forwarded to somebody on the nsc or somebody here at the pentagon shared it with somebody at the nsc, and they said, what? are you kidding many he? so they picked up the phone and called. it baffles the mind, really, to think that that many people who would have been involved in that chain, even if it s two or three or four, somebody should have had the presence of mind, situational awareness is what they call it in the military, but clearly the secretary and his staff had none of that. jim miklaszewski, thank you very much. okay. vladimir putin weighs in on the presidential race in the u.s. we ll tell you what else he discussed. in his annual marathon news conference in russia. take a look at that. plus, one y