american diplomatic history. why? in a long time. praising dictators, messing up foreign policy left and right what he did in north korea giving kim jong-un what he wanted and getting nothing, absolutely nothing in return. north korea is still nuclear. the president used to criticize obama and bush. you couldn t get rid of their weapons, i will. he said about a year ago, we don t have to worry about things. they have icbms and more nuclear bombs than the past. they are a danger to the united states and he pats the guy on the back and gets nothing in return. his foreign policy is erratic. it s done for the moment so he can get his little ego hit and hurts us, hurts us in the long run. it seems every the two summits he s had with kim jong-un got really nothing in return for them. that was always a big carrot, the u.s. will actually meet face-to-face with you. now it s i ve actually gone into northern an american
do. why do you think the president refuses to say anything negative to vladimir putin? it puzzles all of us. i can tell you it s not just that he won t say anything bad about putin, but he does say disparaging and belittling things about our allies. we saw that at the g7 and again at the nato summit. then we see it, you know, with regard to the russians and what he s willing to do in terms of praising dictators, speaking fondly of them. it just is puzzling to awful us. do you think russia has compromising information on the president? i have no way of knowing that. i certainly myself, i doubt it. but i have no way of knowing that. do you have any other reasonable explanation for why he would behave this way? i don t. i m trying to figure it out myself. i think it s puzzled all of us. but it doesn t feel too good, i m sure, for the intelligence agencies and for the others to be thrown under the bus like this.
coming up, president trump has a history of praising dictators and strong men from putin to duterte. is he taking it too far with kim jong-un? he speaks, and his people sit up at attention. i want my people to do the same.
rights groups for overseeing mass arrests and torture. we agree on so many things. i just want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt that we are very much behind president el-sisi. he s done a fantastic job in a very difficult situation. after a referendum in turkey expanded the powers of its president, president trump placed a call to congratulate him on his recent victory in the election. by contrast, international observers and even the u.s. state department raised concerns about the fairness of that election. anyway, his history of praising dictators is a long one. trump even had some nice words to say about saddam hussein. saddam hussein was a bad guy, right? he was a bad guy, a really bad guy. but you know what he did well? he killed terrorists. he did that so good. they didn t read them the rights. they didn t talk. they were a terrorist, it was over. anyway, joining me now is the washington post robert costa, a real trump watcher,
praising a leader who jailed political opponents and who just raised term limits. china is great and xi is a great president. he s now president for life. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] president for life. no, he s great. and he was able to do that, i think it s great. maybe we ll have to give that a shot some day. he s the most powerful president in a hundred years, you know, person in a hundred years in china. so, these were light-hearted comments, made in jest, but is this something to joke about? it s an unusual thing, ana, to joke about. it s not something that i could imagine prior presidents like barack obama, george wf. bush, joking about, you know, becoming president for the life. and it sounds like the crowd took it in jest. but one important thing is that there is a grain of truth to this, which is that president trump has a long history of praising dictators and strongmen, the most notable