the same party. what we re about as a nation is not being for or against one personality. again, we re a nation of the laws and not men as the founding fathers said. our presidency has been debased by a figure who seemingly has a bottoms will appetite for destruction and division and only a passing familiarity with how the constitution works. we are joined by your fourth of july panel, michael steel an analyst and former msnbc chair. chem berly atkins a journalist and john meach him, presidential historian and journalist. author after a great new book him welcome all. happy fourth of july. michael steel, this is a fight going on inside your party there when it comes to defining patriotism. but this is not the first president to wrap himself in the flag and try to own it. but he does it in such a heavy-handed way. he does it in a heavy-handed way.
joke about the president of the united states. a lot of the democrat 2020 candidates making their way around the country to get some high profile stages. of late two republicans here including the former secretary of state not being so kind to the commander in chief. in our leaders seek to conceal the truth or we as people become accepting offal tirn tive realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as american sit stens are cia pathway to relinquishing our freedom. our pathway has been debased who has a bottomless appetite for destruction and division and only a passing familiarity with how the constitution works. a lot of people use these commencement speeches for kind of imagery building that s certainly what rex tillerson is attempting to do now. of course if he said those things while secretary of state he might have been out of a job faster but a lot of people would have been interested in the message. but i do think you are note the
since his false and racist birther claim that president obama was not born in this country. that was a lie. a lie he told for years. a lie he reportedly still clings to today. it served trumps purpose. he rose to prominence on it. do you think he regrets it? i doubt it. what lesson did he learn from it? i wonder. you may wonder. you may have been wondering through all of this why doesn t his own party stand up against this blatant disregard for the truth. it s telling that the few republicans who are speaking out against the president are leaving congress. like arizona senator jeff flake. ad his harvard law school commencement today, our presidency has been debased by a figure who has a bottom wills appetite for destruction and division. only a passing familiarity with
leaving congress. like arizona senator jeff flake. in his address today this is a quote, our presidency has been debased by a figure who has a seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division and only a passing familiarity with how the constitution works. i do not think that the founders could have aping that the beauty of their investigation might some day found on the rocks of television and the congress will be willing accomplice to this calamity. very strong words. this is not just about talk but about facts. facts do matter, the truth matters, and the truth is under daily assault from the president of the united states and that is a crises and that is the truth. we ll begin with breaking news tonight. the white house saying they are working on having two classified bereav bereave briefs tomorrow.
commencement speech to harvard law students. our presidency has been debased by a figure who seemingly has a bottomless appetite for destruction and division and only a passing familiarity with how the constitution works and our article i branch of government, our congress, that s me, is utterly supline if the moral vandalism that flows from the white house daily. flake said the good news and the bad news cannot get much worse. that s something. a top north korean official calls the vice president a political dummy and says the u.s. risks a nuclear to nuclear showdown. will the sides still meet despite the rhetoric? we are live in seoul with the latest. melatonin is the body s own sleep ingredient.