News coverage is provided. News coverage is provided. Coming to those rallies. Independents approval of President Trumps rating was trending downward. Thats an alarming sign for the gop. Arthel as Pole Ashizing politics per as polarizing politics exists, how does that fare for the president and his party and the democrats. Galvanizing the base once again. Its hard to get the base to vote for the federal and state candidates. Will that work . Or will the democrats prevail. Troy balderson is the classical conservative candidate and he has john kasich and donald trump
campaigning for him. Arthel connor is right behind him on his tail at 4344 respectively. Donald trump is the most of powerful weapon to bring in so they are bringing him in at game time. Mike National Security advisor john bolton denying there is a disconnect. He spoke earlier on an exclusive interview on fox news sunday. Everybody who participated in the press Conference Thursday as has the president on several public occas
including the threat of isis in syria, the possibility of north korea denuclearizing and whether iran cheated on the nuclear deal. and just earlier this month, coats appointed a new election security czar countering the president s apparent lack of concern on the subject. as the new york times puts it, to mr. trump, mr. coats had come to represent the disapproving republican elite that he scorned. so now dan coats is leaving and the person who trump wants to replace him with is pretty much exactly what you would expect. do you remember this guy from the mueller hearings? i agree with the chairman this morning when said donald trump is not above the law. he s not. but he damn sure shouldn t be below the law which is where volume ii of this report puts him. that s texas congressman john ratcliffe. it turns out it was basically an audition for the director of national intelligence job. ratcliffe met with the president a few days before the hearings and essentially went out and perfo
represented there by the soon to be former director of national intelligence dan coats. it s been both awkward and acrimonious to say the least, from the then president-elect compares u.s. intelligence agencies to nazis. literally. to trump s very first day in office when he stood in front of the cia s memorial wall and boasted about his intelect and inauguration crowd size. to most infamously taking vladimir putin s word that russia did not interfere in the 2016 election over his own intelligence community s assessment. in spite of all that, dan coats often said things the president didn t want to hear, like when he testified before congress earlier this year and contradicted trump on issues, including the threat of isis in syria, the possibility of north korea denuclearizing and whether iran cheated on the nuclear deal. and just earlier this month, coats appointed a new election security czar countering the president s apparent lack of concern on the subject.
always great to have you on the show. thank you. so let s start with the your impression of what was achieved by president trump at his historic meeting at the demilitarized zone with north korea s kim jong-un. nothing more than a photo opportunity or was it a meeting that could possibly result in some level of denuclearization, do you think? i think it maintains the status quo. north korea s not, you know, engaging in intercontinental ballistic missile tests. it hasn t had another nuclear test. so, you know, that s that s a positive thing. but i don t see what the united states and the kind of international community got out of the meeting. there s really still no progress on this core issue of north korea denuclearizing. and what did you make of the new york times report that suggested president trump may go for a nuclear freeze as a next step with north korea rather
initiatives. this was a very fact-based assessment, and because of that, it dramatically differs from everything that he has promised whether it s north korea denuclearizing or you know, the isis being defeated and so you just see this disconnect and you also see in his reaction something very familiar pa we ve seen even before he took the oath of presidency which is he takes on intelligence community and challenge what they have to say. he during the transition compared their assessments to nazi germany. he has a long history of defying what his intelligence officials are telling him. if you know anything about gina haspel, i don t think anybody would call her passive or naive to say the least. this woman has spent her career at the cia. dan coats, all of them. noun of them are passive or naive, but the president is