president trump is pretty much on the same track as the presidents that came before him. according to mark knowler, donald trump has spent about 41 days of his presidency on vacation. compared to president obama, who at this point in his presidency had been on vacation 21 days, and george w. bush, who d spent 67 days on vacation. ryan nobles, cnn, washington. all right. the u.s. president on vacation. i guess a working vacation, as he calls it. but not to be outdone, the russian president vladimir putin is showing the world how r&r should be done there. no golf on the agenda in siberia. the russian leader is shown here shirtless as he fished and swam. the kremlin also released video of mr. putin wearing a camouflage dive suit, spear fishing in a murky lake. as you can see, he caught a pretty big fish there. still ahead here on newsroom, a career swan song for the fastest man in history.
did soun sounds like you r trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of the people into this country. that s one of the most racial, insulting, ignorant things you ve ever said. putting on quite a show there on stage, but the issue is not about jim acosta but more about the american people. the question here, mr. miller s performance on stage, it seemed that it was a job interview in many ways. would he add value to the trump media strategy? let me put this in a wider context, george. what some in the white house want, as donald trump is on a 17-day vacation, is just to have a reset, to calm everything down both on the domestic front after the failure to get health care and on the foreign policy front, but there s two problems. the first is you ve got a faction, which includes stephen miller and more importantly the chief strategist steve bannon, who don t want calm. they want to push forward. they want to be aggressive. the whole bannon strategy is on keeping everyone on
sean spicer. president trump has amazing surrogates and then he has not so great surrogates and i think they should only be putting the best of the best of the best in front of the camera, people who really understand messages, understand how narrative works and quite frankly, can rank all the liberal press that is so intense and out to get him. when you see gayle king on vacation, there s not even a veneer of pretending that you could possibly cover president trump in any kind of unbiased way. part of the problem is, especially the obama administration, it was so egregious and so intense that when you have people that are so for people in the left, it s hard to even find journalists to put in front he would consider unbiased. eboni: sometimes two negatives equal a positive and i think on this issue, that s the equation. i think president trump and his base for certain, they relish in this type of stuff.
he s against palestinian statehood. we re also told he s an unrelenting defender of israel s government and fervent supporter of the israeli settlement. here s why this is so important. if that s his position, that should give you a window into how the new administration feels about this issue which has obviously been a very, very hotly contested one at the united nations, gregg. kevin corke live in honolulu, kevin, thanks very mumch. let s bring back our political panel, democratic strategist robin biro, republican strategist, ford o connell. robin, israel says it feels deeply detray deeply betrayed by this. netanyahu, himself, says it s shameful. he blames president obama. said obama was behind it. initiated it. coordinated it. wrote the wording of it. and our reporting suggests the very same thing that president obama made this decision, himself, while on vacation. i mean, if so, what does that say about his views on israel
at least of protocol. the u.s. always tried to shield israel from these type of resolutions, condemning israel for the settlement building so trump made it clear hi would have vetoed it. barack obama will remain the most powerful man in the world until the inauguration but are you surprised little we re talking bet the sit can president and how much we re talking about the new president? no really. trump generates news, good news, bad news, by virtue of twitter. barack obama is making news quietly as he tries to shore up his legacy, doing things, passing regulations and his on vacation. everybody is looking forward to to what trump will do, trying to read the tea leaves on the policies. so clearly we re geared towards