so presidential. at some point. this week marked 1,000 days of the trump presidency and what did we see? we saw the president of the united states go on twitter and rail against the speaker of the house as having something wrong with her upstairs after a meeting on syria descended into name calling. what we saw on the part of the president was a meltdown sad to say. he called her a third rate politician. this was not a dialogue. it was sort of a diatribe, nasty diatribe not focused on the facts. we saw the reports. he referred to his own former defense secretary jim mattis as the world s most over rated general. i am honored to be considered that by donald trump because he also called meryl streep an over rated actress. so i guess i m the meryl streep
the author of the road to unfreedom. he also wrote the book on tyranny. 20 lessons from the 20th century. congrats because both are in the new york times best sellers list right now including a number one book right now. as a historian yourself when you take a look back at everything that transpired this week, what strikes you the most? i find myself thinking more and more as a historian of the 18th century of the constitution of what the framers were thinking when they separated powers, what they were thinking when they created the possibility for impeachment. what the framers were thinking when he wrote the emolliants clause which forbids presidents from earning money by being president of the united states. i find myself going all the way back there and thinking, wow. this is the moment. a lot of really smart people writing the constitution were preparing for this moment. let that sink in for just a moment. when the white house chief of staff goes before cameras and
we just mentioned that letter that the president wrote to the president of turkey. to president erdogan. it had lines like, don t be a tough guy. don t be a fool. what kind of foreign policy is that? well, what s interesting about that is that it is the kind of letter one bully might write to another. a number of people pointed out it is hard to tell whether the letter is real or a parody. now that we know it is real we see that this is the language of one man talking to another man which is okay if you re at a bar and it s your uncle or friend or whatever but when you re the president of the united states, the leader of the free world, when you are supposed to embody and exemplify a system of rules this sort of thing means that that notion in the u.s. that people should take us seriously because we have rules and know how to express them is at a low. i mean a low in our lifetimes.
one thing very clear. so put it bluntly. i am back. reporter: sanders a little more than two weeks after suffering a heart attack returned to the campaign trail in dramatic fashion. packing a park in queens with a level of energy and enthusiasm designed to show that despite the health scare he isn t going anywhere. i am happy to report to you that i am more than ready to assume the office of president of the united states. adding reinforcement to the new stage of his campaign. holy cow! reporter: progressive, rising star alexandria ocasio-cortez. she formally endorsed sanders and made the case it is the sanders brand of politics that will beat donald trump. no one wanted to question this system. and in 2016 he fundamentally
what we learned that announcement. thank you, jeremy diamond, at the white house for us. it all started with a promise. at some point, i m going to be so presidential that you people will be so bored, and i ll come back as a presidential person, and instead of 10,000 people, i ll have about 150 people and they ll say, but boy, he really looks presidential. remember that? so presidential, at some point. well, this week marked 1,000 days of the trump presidency. and what did we see? we saw the president of the united states go on twitter and rail against the speaker of the house as having something wrong with her upstairs after a meeting on syria descended into name calling. what i witnessed on the part of the president was a meltdown, sad to say. he called her a third-rate politician. this was not a dialogue. it was sort of a diatribe, a