through the lenses of trump s presidency. let s begin with mr. trump s first appearance on hardball after then president bill clinton confessed to his relationship with internal monica lewinsky in august of 1988. trump said that president clinton should have taken the fifth amendment to avoid admitting to the affair. let s talk about another 52-year-old, bill clinton. what does he need to do? i don t know. it s so embarrassing. and you really have to say where does it stop? i really like this guy but you really have to say, where does it stop? why do we keep revealing the details. he had sex. now they keep revealing the kind of sex, where it was, on the desk, off the desk. do you think he could have gotten away with a complete mea culpa in january when he decided to cover it up. do you think at that moment he could have thrown all of his money on the table the american people like me they are going to
they are a little more ill disposed to fight isis once they hear that that americans don t even like us. maybe they will want to solve the problem. cruz is pushing for patrol cars driving up neighborhoods muslim people are living in looking into the windows for plotting. that s insane. these are street criminals. they are plotting bombings if they are. he wants to go up and down the streets. that s going the make them more militant. what do you think of his stance. patrol cars. we have to look at mosques. we are making enemies here is that we are making enemies by doing nothing. they are knocking down world trade centers, shooting planes into the pentagon. probably the other plane was going into the white house. you had some very brave people. what are we going to do? sit back and say we want to be nice to everybody? we can t be so nice. given president trump s decision to rip up the iran nuclear deal and pursue a
back years that included an embrace of the birther movement, a claim that obama wasn t born in the united states. as he kpapd for president in 2015 and 2016, trump refused to disavow his past comments. after the republican primary debate i pressed him on the topic: i want to ask you a last question before you leave. you can leave but i would like you to stay. is donald trump honest when he says that barack obama is an illegitimate question. i knew you were going to ask me that question. i didn t say you couldn t. you can t stop me. you know, i no, i can. i should not tell you this but i do watch you a lot. i knew you were going to ask me about that question. the president of the united states. i content like that question. i can only ask you questions you like. this guy is a total professional. i don t want to answer that because if i do, that s all people answer. you are going to have to answer it in the general election. then i will answer it then. you are going
be inevitably a first lady joining you at some point. i do. melania would you like to answer one big question, the only person i can imagine putting jackie kennedy to shame. melania, would you like to be first lady? yes, it would be an honor to be a first lady. yes. thank you. ? that same 1999 interview trump said his top concern is commander in chief would be to stop nuclear proliferation and in particular preventing a conflict on the korean peninsula. 20 years later trump finds him grappling with a now nuclear north korea. define the great age of trump. what would it be like? i think the nirvana would be cleaning up the world of nuclear missiles. out matly we have ourselves a really big problem. these young folks in this room are incredible.
how new yorkers pulled together amid the devastation. we have on the phone right now new york real estate developer donald trump an old friend this show s. mr. trump let me ask you the question, rudy giuliani said the best thing america can do for new york which has been hit so hard historically is to go to new york and spend some money. what do you think? i think that s true. judging from the streets today chris a lot of people are out there. a lot of people are very proud to be new yorkers and very proud to be in this country generally speaking. i mean it s been amazing. there has been an amazing show of confidence and faith despite what happened with the almost 700 point down market. do you know what shocked me about new york positively i m aushly shocked negatively, the way everybody pulled together. it wasn t who is the cop, the fireman, the real estate developer, the stockbroker. everybody seemed to be on the same level. it is a truly great city.