real marked differences? well, a couple of thing. first of all, the trump story, we don t know the trump story as well. it s ongoing. it s not only ongoing, but richard nixon hid much of his private self and the tapes revealed it. i don t know and don t think anyone except president trump and his family would know the difference between social media trump and the real trump. we know the difference between the public president nixon and the private nixon. the viewers will see that dramatically displayed in this four-part series. wow, so we re certainly hearing what all of us as viewersing learn, but what do you suppose president trump would learn from this series? well, what i hope he doesn t learn is how to conceal your private self better. what he might learn is what
replace, the president talking about that vote in 2017 where john mccain voted against a thin repeal and replace bill or rather just a repeal bill of obamacare. megan mccain, john mccain s daughter, tweeted back at president trump, launching this attack. listen to this. quote, no one will ever love you the way they loved my father. i wish i d been given more saturdays with him. maybe spend years with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine. clearly the president s obsession over john mccain and the grudge between the two men continues on, even seven months after the late senator s death. all right. boris sanchez at the white house, thank you so much. let s talk further on this. joining me now, new york magazine s washington correspondent, olivia nuzzi. good to see both of you. so julian, what was your reaction that the acting chief
new beat, new rhythm and we re all about the future. kamala harris, does she know how to dance? joe biden, does he know how to dance? do all of them know how to dance, or just those two? they can all shake a tailfeather. they know how to hit it when the dj put the you know what. look, this is i agree with ben. thank you for those comments because i m going to steal them from you. we re looking past donald trump. we see the light at the end of the tunnel and we re going to move forward. ben, president trump surprised a lot of folks. as soon as i heard it i remembered i had you on today and i thought of you. i want to play it for folks who didn t catch the speech. this is president trump on north korea. if i had not been elected president of the united states, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with north korea.
what say you former national security advisor ben rhodes? totally crazy, craig. and, frankly, who are these people who are applauding this absurdity coming from trump? we were not on some pathway to war with north korea. in fact, the only time that we were afraid we might get into a major war with north korea is when donald trump was tweeting threats at rocket man in 2017. he created the crisis himself. then he reaches out and lavishes praise on kim jong-un. he s called for the second summit. we know from the intelligence community of donald trump the people he appointed to lead the cia and the u.s. intelligence community, they told us in public hearings last month that north korea is not taking steps to denuclearize. there are reports that since the last summit north korea has potentially advanced elements of its nuclear plan.
now to the road ahead in washington. a shutdown to avert. infrastructure to rebuild. health care costs to lower. president trump says he hopes for unity. based on his speech last night, however, unity is clearly a one-way street in washington. but we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance, and retribution. we must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction. jon meacham, presidential historian at vanderbilt university and an msnbc contributor, always good to have you, my friend, thank you for your time this morning. how would you characterize the president s speech last night? there were about three different speeches all crammed together. there was an homage to ronald reagan, with the d-day and the gallery, which was very atricth