respects cojones and another white house report in response to the g7, we are american bees. it seems like this is a locker room of frat boys driving this policy. what do you make of this approach to foreign policy? it seems to be driven bay sense of manhood that s deeply problematic. well i don t think there s some great mystery about donald trump there isn t this, as meeko and joe know for many years there isn t this private donald trump with voluminous layers, he is who he is. you ve seen him in public for 30 years. so there is that. but donald trump sees the world as a series of countries that owe america money. it is literally, he s not viewing the world as collections, alliances, regions. there is a little bit of that. but it s you owe us money. what can i squeeze out of you. to give in his mind, the american worker a better deal.
or are you useless to me right now? if you re useless to me, if you re getting in my way, that s when the insults come. that s when the angry tweets come. that s why we saw the fight with mitch mcconnell last summer. the president was extraordinarily frustrated with the idea that the republicans were campaigning on repealing obamacare and he couldn t get it done. later they passed tax reform and suddenly mcconnell is his guy and see a lot of praise coming for mitch mcconnell. i think the president views the world very much as what can you do for me. if you re not doing something for me, you re in my way and you re my enemy, essentially. you ve got a quote in your piece from a white house source that says trump only respects force, only respects cojones. is there a strategy there? does president trump believe that flattery of kim jong un, flattery of vladimir putin is a means to an end? or is it just personal affinity
is walking back such mean comments. where are we? it s hard to sort this out. i think there s a little bit of a pot and kettle situation here for the president of the united states, donald trump, to be cappica calling another leader obnoxious given that the president is calling names. it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to the canadian government. i think people expected him to be tougher on our adversaries, not on allies. now he s making nice with north korea and justin trudeau and the
constitutional duty, matter of fact to do what you said. they used the constitution as toilet paper. and the real problem is most of the republicans on capitol hill, and don t forget this, are really democrats, but no democrats are really republicans. don t ever forget that. see that s the problem. these whiney little snobs up on the hill don t have the cojones, because they are really democrats, the republicans. remember this, there are no democrats that are really republicans, and that s why none of that will happen and i ll end it on this, that is why bob mueller is effectively the most powerful person in the world right now, because the constitution is being used as kleenex by these cowards up on the hill who won t rein this guy in. mark: we had a series of speakers who would not allow committee chairman to issue subpoenas to the obama administration because they feared the political backlash. and as a result, they wasted their constitutional power of
correct, it is their constitutional duty, matter of fact to do what you said. they used the constitution as toilet paper. and the real problem is most of the republicans on capitol hill, and don t forget this, are really democrats, but no democrats are really republicans. don t ever forget that. see that s the problem. these whiney little snobs up on the hill don t have the cojones, because they are really democrats, the republicans. remember this, there are no democrats that are really republicans, and that s why none of that will happen and i ll end it on this, that is why bob mueller is effectively the most powerful person in the world right now, because the constitution is being used as kleenex by these cowards up on the hill who won t rein this guy in. mark: we had a series of speakers who would not allow committee chairman to issue subpoenas to the obama administration because they feared the political backlash. and as a result, they wasted their constitutional power of