I know you have other duties for the network so well let you go. But with eappreciate we appreciate you being with us. Jonathan swan, im sure you have more of the conversations than i do, but aides increasingly want you to one, give them credit for all the quote crazy stuff that doesnt happen. I think i have seen that in axios and other places, and two for the scripted moments which are sort of milestones that they are proud of getting him to hit. Whether its ultimately affirming the commitment to article 5, whether its delivering a decision on afghan policy. And they want to sort of separate out judgment or responsibility from these wild, unhinged performances like last night. Yes. Its doubly strange because you really have a white house at the senior level where if you take the family out of it, if you take jared and ivanka who obviously voted for their father in law and their father, if it was any other election they werent related to him they would have voted for hillary
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Reporter yeah, wolf. As you said. This is going to be a campaignstyle rally here in phoenix. One of several the president has held since the inauguration. Its actually going to be the furthest west that donald trump has gone since becoming president , and we should expect some familiar faces on hand with him. The Vice President , mike pence. His chief of staff, john kelly. Its also notable who is going to be absent from this rally. Arizonas two republican senators. Both john mccain and jeff flake, very critical of the president. Both of them had very harsh words for him after his response to the violence in charlottesville at that Press Conference in trump tower one week ago. And the president Didnt Hesitates when responding to that criticism, specifically from jeff flake. He took to twitter last week saying that the arizona senator is weak and a nonfactor in the senate. And praising his potential gop primary opponent dr. Kelly ward. Its unclear whether or not dr. The response hes gott
Here. Everybody said you couldnt get that. Theyve been trying to get that passed for 40 years. We have great legislation. Have you heard the liars when they say trump didnt have legislation. I think we have more in the past seven months, i think we have more than even Harry Trueman o who , people treating their veterans badly or not harry truman. We can fire people who are doing their job badly or arent doing a good job. We also obtained historic increase in Defense Spending to prevent and deter conflict. We believe in peace through strength. Were building up our military
like never before. Thousand and thousand of Brave Americans have paid for our freedom and now its time to preserve and protect their legacy. Last night i laid out a vision for an honorable and enduring outcome in a tough place. A place where our country has failed, afghanistan. This is a place where terrorists are trained. You have people that are not exactly United States fans. Can i say that . I will tell you what w
and the pentagon has not done it because the pentagon does not understand what the rationale would be. many more nuclear weapons than we have operational war plans requirements for and so the president is trying to characterize the massive nuclear upgrade and the pentagon is scratching its head and saying we don t understand what the commander in chief is telling us to do. there s much more coming out about the nuclear piece about this and a big, big disconnect between the professional military and the president on the nuclear issue. thank you, jeremy bash. my thanks to jonathan swan, heidi and eli are sticking around. when we come back we ll ask our panel about that presidential temper tantrum and the questions it s raising about his fitness to serve from one of america s most respected national security voices. and relitigating charlottesville. the president wasted no time
depressing to him about being scrutinized the way he is. that he s you know, again, these are friends. these are not people rooting against him, but they recognize i mean, they haven t diagnosed him as a sociopath, but they say the behavior is anything outside of normal. if you look at the people in the common vernacular, if you have the recurring self-destructive tendencies yeah, like your friend s jerky boyfriend. the way he in his case, i mean, the obvious problem he has with the truth is kind of again small the things he did last night in reading the edited versions of the charlottesville responses. what he tells untruths, lying to people on the camera, either by