non-braggadocious way, there has never been a ten-month president that has accomplished what we have accomplished. that i can tell you. [ cheers and applause ] that i can tell you. largest tax cut, not true. accomplished more, not true. remember the wall thing? mexico is going to pay for it. but true to form, president trump says he actually did very well in his speech today at the united nations. and even though you heard him say he didn t expect to be laughed at, now he s claiming he was in on this joke. how do you think it went today? i think really well. it s gotten very good reviews certainly, and i think it went very well. the laughter, what did you feel about that? it was great. it was meant to get some laughs. i thought it was great. even if that were true, the podium at the united nations is not a comedy club. now, if there is one thing that
laughed at in that room, but on the whole, they wrote a speech to be provocative. that was really for their base, people who think unga is what happens when you don t eat, right? not they have no idea what unga is. but on the second point susan was making, it isn t just the president who has treated these women disrespectfully in the last 48 hours. the whole strategy of the republicans in the senate has shifted. the majority leader calling it a smear. you know, brett kavanaugh last night suggesting, well, maybe dr. ford was the victim of a sexual assault. i m not questioning that. i just wasn t the one who did it, as if one doesn t remember who it was who you know, she s confused. and now they ve set a deadline to vote on this on friday morning. in other words, let s check the box on thursday and we ll vote on friday and get this done.
acosta, cnn senior political commentator david axelrod and susan glasser. good evening to all of you. david, that moment at the united nations, what did you think of that? well, you know, the president s speech was really written as much for a domestic audience as the people in the room. and as you pointed out, he repeated a line that he s been using everywhere. but this wasn t an adoring crowd. this was a very jaundiced crowd because the president, as he did again in this speech, was very, very violative of this notion of global institutions and international cooperation and was preaching the gospel of self-interest country by country. and so they were not primed to give him a big hand for self-adulation. it was a poorly considered opening line, and i think he got a sense of where he stands in
in that room probably matters little. it may even be a certification of something positive to them because he s run against the idea of globalism, and he s run against international institutions, and he s run against this notion of infringing on american sovereignty from the beginning. and in some ways he may i m sure he didn t like getting laughed at in that room, but on the whole, they wrote a speech to be provocative. that was really for their base, people who think unga is what happens when you don t eat, right? not they have no idea what unga is. on the second point susan was making, it isn t just the president who has treated these women disrespectfully in the last 48 hours. the whole strategy of the republicans in the senate has shifted. the majority leader calling it a smear. you know, brett kavanaugh last
we don t know the facts when it comes to these allegations against brett kavanaugh, right? and we don t really seem to have a process right now for determining them. and it s just it s so painful to look at this conversation playing out and think, you know, there are no such thing as democratic or republican sexual assault victims. thank you. and the idea that we don t even have a process can i yeah. yeah. did you finish your point, susan? i think you did. go ahead, david. don, just let me make a couple of points. first of all, i said at the beginning that this speech wasn t really for the people in that room. and for the president s base, the fact that he got ridiculed in that room probably matters little. it may even be a certification of something positive to them because he s run against the idea of globalism, and he s run against international institutions, and he s run against this notion of infringing on american sovereignty from the beginning. and in some ways h