is he doing that, respecting that line? or is it something else? ari: i m sorry, i find this whole topic of presidents abroad to be naively cute in 2019. in his first trip out of the country he was attacked by george mitchell. the notion here that since the berlin wall fell down that you can t say something critical about somebody who has left the united states on foreign soil, it s not practiced anymore. goodness, if it was, the democrats of the biggest abuse of it. in 2004, 2006, 2008 against george w. bush. they did it regularly. i m not critical of either jessica: they are going to be the number one victims outside of korea. diminishing what north korea has done, they haven t ramped down their nuclear program, they are launching missiles, you have a dictator who is running ari: so you object to the cam line. i don t disagree with that. jessica: i disagree with both of. there to do corn. ari: so do you apologize for what they did to bush customer could of course he
he was very i began with that question at the session. asked him to clarify talking about the e-mails and clinton foundation, both, in terms of backing away from investigation. he made clear he recognized there s a limit to power in the white house and in fact the president is supposed to have nothing to do with this, department of justice. supposed to be independent which was a criticism of the fbi investigation into clinton. his and others arguments were it was politicized. i said he thinks she s been through too much paraphrasing here. brutal campaign and says some say the clinton foundation has done good work. it s a little bit different from the it s a scam line we heard thu the final weeks of the campaign. it s more like the donald trump who actually donated to the clinton foundation years ago
this in terms of the department of justice. it is supposed to be independent which was always a criticism of the fbi investigation into clinton, was, you know, his and other s argument was . he said he thinks that she has suffered enough. that she s been through i m paraphrasing. sees been through too much. this was a brutal campaign. and then says that the clinton foundation some say has done good work. which is a little bit different than, you know, it s a scam line we heard from him and rudy giuliani for most of the final weeks of the campaign. more like the donald trump who through his foundation actually donated to the clinton foundation years ago. that was before he ran for president against her. maggie, a fascinating discussions you all had with him. thanks so much for coming on and sharing your insight from that meeting. appreciate it. my pleasure. joining us now. democratic strategist maria cardona. and kristine gwynn.