it s not that the issues that president trump are raising are not issues that have been out there before. in fact, they have, president obama, president bush, certainly pushed the nato allies to spend more on their own defense. if it was under president obama they came up with the target of 2% and supposed to meet it by 2024 but neath of them ever sort of did it in your face kind of way that president trump does it. neither one of them went into a nato summit clearly intending to sort of go on the attack the way president trump did today. and the way president trump did today literally in advance of a meeting that he will have with russia s president in just a few days, a meeting he has promised will be friendly and perhaps easier, he says than his meeting with the allies and i think that you can t find an exact parallel of this or even a close parallel to this. i ve been doing a lot of reading about 1989 and unification of germany and striking how close america and germany were at tha
today. today in advance of meeting that he ll have with russia s president in just a few days, a meeting that he promised to be friendly and easier than his meeting with the allies. you can t find a parallel of this or a close parallel of this. i have been doing a lot of reading of 1989 and the unification of germany. it is striking how close america and germany is and we are the exact opposite today. let s talk about what may led up to today. this president needs an opponent to function at his best. does he view all of the alliance members as opponents? what else is motivating what he said and did today? what s going on here? a couple of things, he views them as a good target for his base. his base likes him going out there and not necessarily attacking nato per se and again they don t necessarily care
las vegas, the president saying hang on a second, we can t politicize this tragedy or talk about gun control right now. he did the exact opposite today. he seized on the thing of immigration. he also talked about getting away from this diversity lottery system saying it duds not have the proper vetting and screening measures in place when in fact it does. he also blamed that system as you said on the senate majority leader chuck schumer that that was signed into program by former president george bush. we just heard the president say the justice system in america is a joke and laughing stalk. sarah sanders trying to clarify the comments or denied them. i tried to ask her during the believing why did the president say the u.s. justice system is a joke and laughing stalk. here s how it went down.
what more can you tell us? that s right. contrast what the president said today injecting politics into the aftermath of a terror attack. contrast what he did in las vegas in the days after that attack in las vegas the president said hang on a second. we can t politicize this tragedy. we can t talk about gun control right now. he did the exact opposite today. he seized on the issue of immigration. get rid of chain migration and also talked about getting away from this diversity lottery system saying that it did not have the proper vetting and screening measures in place when in fact it does. he also blamed that system on the senate minority leader chuck schumer despite the fact that that was signed into law as a program by president george h.w. bush. we just heard the president saying that the justice system is a joke and laughing stock. then white house press secretary
him. oh, poor karl, but the truth is the exact opposite today. these groups represent the elite, and mitt romney, he s their guy. he supports their interests, that s the key. here s what mitt romney will do about wall street regulations. burdensome regulations serve only to restrict freedom and imperil enterprise. and the victims of the regulation are not nameless, faceless banks. they re employees, business openers, and customers who rely on banks who ultimately lose out. and when it come to corporate business interests, romney is on the same page as the billionaires. phase one, get the corporate tax rate competitive with the rates in europe and the rest of the world, get it down to 25%. the top 1% has it great under president obama when it comes to taxes. actually, everybody does. the average income tax rate for a family of four under ronald reagan was more than 11%. it was more than 9% under bill clinton. under president obama, it s