trump by being obsequious. of course, it doesn t work. trump does this to everyone. he s a serial betrayer in his life, in his business, his politics. and george s analysis that they can t be president because he has a mental deficiency with inability of being able to accept out of his ego. on the daily beast, all of these guys tweet without mentioning trump s name. saying i don t like this policy in the administration. they re out of their minds. they re going to be held responsible for what trump has done in their name because they are silent on it. i think it s a slow-motion tragedy. and, ben? yeah, and i m not a clinician, and i m not in a position to sort of evaluate, you know, whether george s diagnosis as a clinical matter is accurate or not. his diagnosis of the president s incapacity to function as
former national security adviser john bolton has sharp criticism for president trump on north korea. cnn s brian todd is here with details. and brian, bolton used his first speech since leaving the white house to say the president is basically wrong about kim jong-un. brianna, bolton said the president is wrong, police guid misguided and naive ant without mentioning trump by name but the messenger was clear john bolton believes his old boss is getting hood-winked by the supreme leader in pyongyang. who north korea once called a war monger and human defect is firing back tonight giving what he calls his own unvarnished view of north korea s kim jong-un and his relationship with trump. under current circumstances he will never give up the nuclear weapons voluntarily. reporter: in his first public speech since getting axed by the president about three weeks ago, trump s former national security adviser had no problem contradicting his old boss s optimism about kim s intentions.
china, first, let s invest in america. let s build a united front of our allies to challenge chinese abusive behavior. we need to rally half of the world s economy. hold china accountable for their cheating. steve: there you have joe biden and what he did was he backtracked or he flip flopped on china 11 days. he was for china in one way until he was against them. much like last week we saw him with the hyde amendment, something he had supported which is the federal prohibition of federal funds for abortion. he had been on that, you are right, for 30, 40 years, something like that, until he was against it last week. rush limbaugh took a look what was happening yesterday with the punching and counters punching and said this about what the democrats, all of them are running on in this cycle. you know, biden attacking trump, mentioning trump s name 7 7175 times. is that all there is to the democratic campaign?
speech of democratic socialism and beto o rourke has a new policy. let s begin with mj lee on the trump/biden clash. reporter: good morning. we are eight months out from the iowa caucuses. yesterday felt like the general election already. president trump and joe biden in the same state on the same day. the two men going after one another as though it were calendar year 2020. a today of insults and jabs in iowa by president trump and former vice president joe biden. i believe that the president is literally an existential threat to america. he makes his stance in iowa once every two weeks and mentions my name 74 times in one speech. i don t know. that reminds me of crooked hillary. she did the same thing. reporter: the democratic front-runner mentioning trump by name about three dozen times during several campaign stops in the battleground state. trump from donald trump, i have absolute power. no, you don t, donald trump.
and, jeremy, in the last day we ve heard george w. bush speaking out in a way that he has not he s not been giving political speeches of any sort. even when president obama was president. now a very pointed speech, which is clearly about donald trump. it clearly was. without mentioning trump s name, i gave a sneering indictment of trump presidency and trumpism and what that has done to corrode american politics. not just american politics. i mean, this is it s a difference in both substance and style. i think if you look at what bush said in that speech, he talked a lot about the ways that donald trump had directly pulled back from the bush legacy, right? the legacy of being a dominant world power that understood its place in the global community. donald trump really rejects the idea that there is a global community. this notion that you reach out