that was a strong message he said there. people have been waiting for him to take a stand. you are exactly right. what lot of lawmakers have been waiting for the president to make some sort of a firm statement in support of the protesters in hong kong. while the president repeated he believes xi jinping should sit down with the leaders of the protest, i think you are right. it s a strong message from the president saying don t expect me to sign a trade deal with china if there is any violence against these protesters. arthel: a strong message from the president. the president said, i m not trusting anybody when he was talking about discussions with the taliban and the afghan government. he says he s going in eyes wide open. but he did not comment when asked about lindsey graham s
breaking news, president trump addressing a veterans of foreign wars convention earlier this afternoon, like it was one of his own political rallies, telling people in the crowd to stick with him and not believe what they see and read in the news. let s talk about that and more with our correspondents and analysts. gloria borger, let s listen to the president in his own words. just stick with us. don t believe the crap you see from these people. the fake news. just remember. what you re seeing and what you re reading is not what s happening. what do you make of that kind of language by the president of the united states, especially before a v.f.w. convention? well, it is completely inappropriate but it s also completely expected from donald trump. i mean, this isn t the first time we heard him talk about the
conclusion. just another sign of how devon nunes seeing the same intelligence, more isolated than other republicans seeing what he is seeing and coming up with much different conclusions, wolf. criticism of nunes coming forward, not just from democrats but republicans, as well. manu, also growing republican criticism of the president s constant reversals on russia. listen to what the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said about a possible putin visit to washington. well, i can only speak for the congress. speaker and i made it clear that putin will not be welcome up here at the capitol. he will be welcomed by the president at the white house but he won t be welcomed up on capitol hill. what else are you hearing? reporter: yeah. lawmakers, republicans and democrats, don t know what to make of this second summit after they really have not gotten a readout or intelligence about what exactly the president and vladimir putin agreed to behind closed doors and plus
on the other hand it makes no sense and something we see and talk about this on a daily basis, as well, but it s something we see other leaders of dictatorial countries do. don t believe the press. only believe me. in speaking before the veterans of foreign wars, we should note that this is a president who i believe has yet to visit afghanistan, has yet to visit iraq. so, when it comes to issues that relate specifically to this audience, you would think that this would be a president who would focus more on their needs and speaking to this audience 0 supposed to just, you know, broadly saying, don t pay attention to all the negative headlines. that is certainly true a year and a half into his administration, yet to meet with the troops in either iraq or afghanistan or any war zone for that matter. he is right now, sabrina, beginning to get a bit more criticism from members of his own party. absolutely. you re starting to see the president have to do multiple course corrections in r
fake news. i think what was really interesting was this afternoon the manager of communications and public affairs for the v.f.w. put out a statement saying that we were disappointed to hear some of our members boo the press. we rely on the media to help spread the v.f.w. s message and listed a number of networks including our own saying they re invited guests and we were happy to have them there so good for them for doing that. look. i mean, it is orwellian the idea saying don t believe what you see and hear. nothing to look at. the only truth is me. it s dangerous. it really is. and i know we have said this. so many times. but it s important to keep pointing it out. because it s not normal. and it s not accurate. and the issue is the reason it s dangerous is because the more he says it to the base and to people who do genuinely believe