i will be very quick to tell you exactly what s going on. i may change. right now we have a good relationship and i think better than maybe 25 years, maybe forever. they ve been there the long time, the grandfather, the father, the son. and they ve been there for a long time. nobody has done anything except me. we ll see how it all turns out. i hope it turns out well for you and everybody. i ll give my follow-up to jeff very quickly, president duda, thank you. do you see yourself as a are you talking to me? president duda. boy, was that a setup question. translator: i would very much like russia to be a friend of poland because it is our great neighbor. it is a country much bigger than poland with a bigger potential than poland in every single respect except perhaps i believe
pot stirrer and she s not doing anything positive there. so ryan can but at a government level and people who would actually want to come in. i wasn t even asking if they were friends, just people who could do these jobs. you understand the point i was making. the question was a setup to try to knock the president on the issue of race why is every hard question a setup. i m going to ask you, jason, senior african-americans in the white house, why aren t there any? is that a setup question? the question the way it was put to him, was to knock him to essentially say and go into a long conversation how many african-americans are in the white house and administration,
message. where does that land on the statesman like scale? you have one where he accuses south korea of appeasement with north korea and another one saying we re going to stop threatening to stop and considering to stop all trade with any country doing business with north korea. that, of course, is china. what does this do to the conversation? that s a setup question. the lack of statesmanship about it president of the united states is a major destabilizing factor in world affairs. do his words destabilize? absolutely, yes. the words and the actions. what does the president do? he assumes office. one, he limits our influence in the region by getting out of the partnership by continually even more recently attacking our allies when we really need to be focusing on our adversaries. contradicting his top cabinet officials. these tweets are so dangerous and doing so much damage to the united states and allies at a time when we need to be standing
that they were potentially opportunistic. that said, look, a lot of my friends were trump supporters, not enthusiastically, but they were. and i understood the calculation that they made. i just disagreed with it. i just, i was using that kind of as a setup question to the next question. which is, what is one to do if one was a consistent never-trumper throughout the entirety, all the way up to election day, and now you re confronted with and this is you, basically. you re now confronted with something who you ve said incredibly negative things about. his character, his temperament, his personality, his intellect, and now he s suddenly president of the united states. what is a salesmman like you to these circumstances? there are a couple of things. there is such a thing as democratic legitimacy. the people voted for him. we only get one president. he is it. and that matters. and there s something about a democratic race. a person like myself has to give him the benefit of the dou
saying. you ask the same type of tough questions to marco rubio, rand paul, everybody else about finances. they would have dissolved. i agree with that. b, a couple things, one trump handled it. in large measure he was unphased. he stood in there, he threw his hands up. let me finish the rest of the thought for you. i think trump anticipated that. and you could see from the setup question with megan that yeah okay i know. you re going to come after me. that s fine. but how this plays out for the other cad datesndidates, they should be listening and learning. as they get closer to the center point that, spear is pointed at them as well. i don t think there was a personal anemous for donald trump and the republican establishment. a lot of people listening might have said that crowd is a little hostile to donald trump. you go back and look at