you can do anything. so now, in what may be a measure of just how serious all this is for donald trump s presidency, he has decided to do something he hasn t done in more than 586 days. he s decided to hold a solo press conference tomorrow just hours before christine blasey ford testifies against brett kavanaugh. you know what they say. timing is everything. and it s time now to talk to the people who are paying close attention to all of this today, and that is cnn chief white house correspondent mr. jim acosta, cnn senior political commentator david axelrod and cnn global affairs analyst 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.
versus democrat or whether trump they don t care about those things. they care about facts and not alternative facts, and i think that was the emperor is wearing no clothes. i think that s a perfect analogy. the president is used to not only going to adoring crowds, as you mentioned around the country. he s used to going around the table and having cabinet members and top officials address him almost as dear leader as they tick off all the things that s happening beautifully inside the administration. and for once he went in front of a crowd where people are not reading off a script. people are not getting their talking points from conservative media. and they laughed at him. the germans were laughing at one point visibly on camera. yeah. and it s obviously not something you want to see any president of the united states go through, republican or democrat. yeah. susan, two hours after that speech, the president abandoned any restraint that he had of one of the women accusing
the world community right now. i was thinking the whole time, like who who decided to let him the speechwriters, like why would they allow him stephen miller. stephen miller written all over it. i want to put up these headlines, jim acosta. from russia to china, england to spain, all noting world leaders laughed at president trump. was this a reality check for this president, you think? i think it was, don. the u.n. this week is a side show to the you know what show back in washington, first of all. but i talked to a foreign diplomat who was with a u.s. ally earlier today, and this person said, listen, the president may not fully understand, may not completely understand what happened at that u.n. speech. they were laughing at the president of the united states. americans have to sit back and let that wash over them and decide for themselves whether or not, you know, that s something that we should all absorb as americans having the president being laughed at the the unit
underscore, but many observers that i talked to, diplomats who have attended every one of these meetings for decades, no one has ever seen the united states of america laughed at. that s who trump is representing. they re not a political party. and i have to say another thing. you made an excellent point, don, in the opening tonight that 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 ba
point visibly on camera. yeah. and it s obviously not something you want to see any president of the united states go through, republican or democrat. yeah. susan, two hours after that speech, the president abandoned any restraint that he had of one of the women accusing brett kavanaugh of sexual misconduct and went on a wholesale attack. watch this. i think it s horrible what the democrats have done. it s a con game they re playing. they re really con artists. they don t believe it themselves, okay? they know he s a high-quality person. they don t believe it. 36 years ago? nobody ever knew about it? nobody ever heard about it? and now a new charge comes up, and she said, well, it might not be him, and there were gaps, and she said she was totally inebriated and she was all messed up. and she doesn t know if it was him, but it might have been him. oh, gee, let s not make him a supreme court judge because of that. wow. suz susan, do you think that maybe