herbert hoover got you into the great depression. hoover bills. fdr even took the name off it was called the hoover dam and he stripped hoover s name off it and called it s boulder dam for a while. you had ronald reagan win in the white house and stripped off the solar panels that jimmy carter put in. after about a year, it doesn t play anymore, and donald trump is staying on this theme too long. it seems like what trumpism is is anti-obamaism. any executive order, anything barack obama did he s trying to unravel. the tweet that he s been tougher on russia and gets trumpeted by sarah sanders, it is interesting how the spokespeople from the podium kind of have to go into verbal gymnastics to follow up on presidential tweets that are often either just flat out incorrect or, like the tweet he said about the fbi has been they re spending so much time on russia investigation that s why they basically intimating that s why they dropped the ball
he really began his political career saying barack obama wasn t born in the united states. the original sin, the whole birther story. and he got a lot of fuel from that. he was able to differentiate himself in the republican presidential bid by taking tacky kind of hard right on obama and he feels he scores points with his base. i ve never seen a president who so routinely has to say i m better than my predecessor, and we saw it on his first major thing with the inaugural, with the crowd size and all that. it is interesting because president obama got a lot of criticism early on in his administration when he would talk about the economy and point to what happened under president bush and people after a certain time said look, after a certain point you own it, stop talking about it. i m wondering, how common is it for presidents to criticize a former president this long after a year in office? it happens. franklin roosevelt ran on
addendum, what message does that send to the world? it s reinforcing to foreign leaders what they ve already come to believe about this administration, that america does not is not interested in leading. not interested in engaging. that we have a chaotic and unrealistic foreign policy agenda, if you can even call it an agenda. and that they re going to have to go on their own and not count on american leadership going forward. that s really a sad statement when you consider that for 70 years, we led the international world order that we have enjoyed, the multi-lateral institutions that have helped try to move progress forward. we re just pulling ourselves out of that we re abdicating our leadership. i think when he does what he s been doing the last few days, it just reinforces for foreign leaders they can t count on us. admiral kirby, you were in the obama administration. the idea that the trump administration has done more to confront russia to you, does that pass the smell tes
is not exactly clear. and for the record, i never got my mainstream media memo to do it. true pundit said this about 17-year-old david hoag. if he knew the shooter would snap, promise he could have told his father about it, oh but wait, his father was in the fbi, bite not have mattered, that s the funny thing about the limelight, often the light can crash down on your head. charming but not actually the end. someone calling themselves thomas paine retweeted the article and this part s important, because while we d normally be reluctant to give these conspiracy theories any oxygen at all, it s what happened next that makes it news worthy. the person who hit the like button on the thomas paine tweet was the president s son, don jr. we d love to talk to don jr. about why he did that, why he is by extension attacking these kids who buried their friends. but it turns out he s in india promoting his father s real estate empire. no don jr. tonight. but david hoag and his father
cares about putin or the russians. it s all what s in it for me, how can i keep the questions going away from the legitimacy of my election, and if we have to sacrifice national security, so be it. steve hall, thank you very much. coming up, it seems to be the president s default move, when in doubt blame obama. he s doing it again on russia. we ll speak with presidential historian douglas brinkley to see if his attacks on his predecessor are unprecedented and presidential. that s next. doing it yourself or tagging a friend thing. more checking-in or checking out things. like faaaaaaaaaar out of this world things. far out. more revolutions in the making thing. that play like a girl thing. is it a 4 your eyez only, thing. more of a no role modelz thing. that triple-double thing.