Break down the debate. Vicki but first we go to hempstead new york where alex schuman joins us live. Good evening you can see this was definitely a bunch of heated discussions. Trump and clinton did get personal. It may have felt like a greatest hit highlight reel. What you definitely so was clad and calling on relief for tax returns. Trump said he would if she will release r e mills and texas. Clinton will laugh at it with her response. She humanize herself by talking about her childhood, the middle class upbringing. At her fathers hardware. Clintons hard work trump tried to come out looking more president ial. He did have some calm this before he to return back to his personal style. Bangs the heated tonight. Steve and vicki . Vicki the needs of the candidates agreed that perspective goals . Did each they did not. They wanted to look more human in regards to your question and look more clinton wanted to be more connecting with the audience what to get well she did talk a lot about he
Descended on city of ramadi and took it over. Ash carter telling cnn exclusively that he is very concerned. That says to me and i think to most of us that we have an issue with the will of the iraqis to fight isil and defend themselves. Cnns athena jones joins me live from the white house. Athena last hour arwa damon in baghdad said clearly the words from the u. S. Defense secretary greatly upset the people of iraq and they said that is not the case that their armed forces do not have the will to fight. Whats the white house saying . Reporter well the white house is not saying anything today, but secretary carton iser sends this message to the iraqi forces. You can bet the white house is aware of what he said and is not speaking out of turn. Ever since the fall of ramadi this week and palmyra in syria theres been pressure on the white house and criticism on the white houses whole strategy regarding isis in the region. Youre hearing from a lot of people saying the white house needs to c
Israel, and calling them weak and insecure. And his administrations foot soldiers parroted that same line on the sunday talk shows insisting that the president s racist attacks are response to the squads, in many cases, debunked criticisms of his version of america, which they should understand is strictly a president ial privilege. Well have more on that fight with figures in the 2020 race and the internal struggle in the Trump White House to contain the damage. All this as we gear up for special counsel Robert Muellers congressional testimony on wednesday, which the president who famously takes policy cues from cable news, says he wont be tuning in for. Well see about that. Joining me is dean ogudala, sirius xm radio host and columnist for the daily beast. And noah rothman, associate editor of commentary magazine and an msnbc contributor. Lets start with you, noah. The president s week, he started with making a lot of headlines going after the squad and making statements that many fe