type it shows he doesn t understand immigration in this country. we ve seen other examples of that. the idea there is this line of people from norway we should be trying to court to come here, somebody from norway who came here today would have to lower their standard of living. they have 46 weeks parental leave, 56 weeks if you want, right? it s just so it s so i don t think he just really understands. i mean, no. obviously the kind of history of this country, you know, built on the backs of immigrants, you know, some who didn t want to be immigrants in the first place. i wouldn t call immigrants. right. yes, obviously he doesn t view things that way. he has a very strict idea of what an american looks like, what an american sounds like, and quite frankly at his age he s probably not going to be knocked off that idea. a country built by people who were hungry. the best part of this country was built by people who came here hungry. if you ask if the president understa
to have been impulsive behavior or appears to be comments outside the norm. speaking of impulsive behavior, because something happened yesterday that got a lot of attention. the house of representatives voting to reauthorize the foreign intelligence surveillance act over the direction of libertarians. they call this law a critical tool for protecting the country. the measure was expected to pass easily with support from chaos broke out on capitol hill with this. this tweet, this is the act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. that tweet came moments after this fox news segment. i don t understand why donald trump is in favor of this. his woes began with unlawful foreign surveillance and unconstitutional domestic surveillance of him before he was the president of the united
this, he must be concerned about it, but it s nothing to do with them. it s not their concern and of course they are worried being such a young country, still in need of aid and revival. you must remember, even in pl s places like haiti, i meet film makers from paris and all over, in all the world, african film festival, these are astounding remarks where things are moved so far forward with five nobel literature laureates, africans will find it surprising the rest of the day how this man said this and he s the leader of the free world. thank you so much for that, live for us early this morning. thank you. we ll discuss it with senior political reporter joining us the first time on the set today. moving the conversation from his mental stability to something far more serious. i m reminded of a piece this week trump proves he s sane. that was actually the title of an opinion piece in the wall
the view there is that this story may enrage washington, but will likely resonate with trump s base. for more, let s go to cnn s sarah murray at the white house. reporter: good morning. president trump setting off a fire storm on thursday when in a private meeting with lawmakers he was discussing immigration and the issue of restoring temporary protected status came up particularly from people from african countries as well as haiti. they denied deny the president made these remarks. instead, a spokes person, raj shah said in part, president trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation. back to you guys. thank you. the outcry over the president s remarks global. former mexico president fox tweeting at president trump, your mouth is the foulest shithole in the world. with what authority do you proclaim who s welcome in
if i could make one national security recommendation to the president it would be stop watching judge napolitano on fox. this may be the only time where the country would benefit from a national security point of view if the president of the united states were watching cartoons in the morning instead of something else. sorry, that s funny. he gig lz every time he says that. i don t think that s going to happen. i don t think that s going to change. you don t think he s going to watch ka toons? he s a 71-year-old man. this is how he operates, how he processes information. pipe in the bear channel. gorilla chan. the gorilla channel, sorry. this is what it is at this point as far as these things go and as far as the fisa issue. i mean, it s interesting that he had some understanding of what was going on. certainly the white house did the night before kind of made public what their position was. maybe he was confused about there was an amendment on the table, they were voti