have called america or americans garbage and think have not said that they hate america as president trump has claimed, but he is showing no signs of slowing down this effort to try to paint these congresswomen as anti-american. sarah westwood, thank you very much for the update on the president. turning now to david swerdlick assistant editor for the washington post, and cnn political commentator, and martha tolllard is a cnn analyst. thank you both for joining us. david, let me start with you. we are seeing the often-used pattern here from the president from charlottesville, and locker up chants and wondering that the president starts a controversy and then embraces it, and then begins to distance from it. is this just a president who can t seem to get the story straight or is this really a strategy that he believes in? yeah, martin. good morning. so the president was against send her back before he was for it, right. and so you have hit the nail on the head there.