reporter: it was a very trump-like moment certainly. this was notable because remember the president was for the first time an american president has addressed south korea s national assembly in something like 25 years, was trying to shower praise onto south korean hosts for all their achievements in the past six decades since the korean war in technology, in medicine, in music, and as it would turn out in golf, which was an opportunity for him to bring up what he likes to do, his own personal brand, one of his properties, the trump golf course where at the u.s. women s open eight of the top ten finishers, including the champion, were south korean. that was a moment that you saw that the south koreanl lawmaker. president trump showcasing his musical prowess, tooting his own horn yet again. peter, thank you. we re going to take a break. coming up, a group of senate
across. one of the first acts by president trump was to reach out to taiwan and to try to drive a a wedge between taiwan and china. that s not going to ever happen. we got off with bad tooting with the chinese at all levels. he has to start to repair some of the bridges and understand what leverage china really has and it is going to apply to north korea and it s not clear that china wants to come in and see a dysfunctional north korea or the korean peninsula. does president trump really understand all of the different stakes in a different level involved. this level on level on level. this is a very complex lasagna. . we have to try. he doesn t have a knife to cut through that. so he has these important conversations with president xi later this week. here s what i m wondering.
on in 2008. the obama presidency was historic, by definition. he was the first black president. the presidency itself has been a disappointment. particularly, to democrats. he was elected with historic majorities. he squandered them to the point where he will turn over the white house, not only to a republican president, but also to a republican house. and a republican senator. i expect to hear him tonight tooting what he considers his accomplishments, economic recovery, obamacare, paris, decorah, and so forth. but the truth of the matter is, donald trump is positioned to reverse a lot of this. very quickly. partly because of how obama went about achieving those things. not working with congress, doing enron s executive actions, and so forth. his legacy is donald trump. bret: when you hear him say to those local tv stations that race relations have improved, i don t know where he is getting that from. it has been obvious in poll after poll that race relations have deteriorated
some of his recent statements make it seem like he s walking away from the core. carson to help inform his ideas since he has a platform. i want to get your reaction on tamir rice. as you probably know the latest results in that case. the cuyahoga county has two reviews of the stooting of the 12-year-old boy. the report concluding that the police officer acted reasonably in deciding to shoot the 12-year-old boy who turned out to be carrying an air gun. what s your reaction to these reports? you know, the release of these reports confirms what we already knew to be true, that the system of policing in america is broken, that is race-based and it cannot be reasonable to kill a 12-year-old who has a toy gun and the caller who called it nsaid it was a toy gun. highlights the urgency of fixing the system and pushing beyond having a safety that doesn t
racial and other places not. in new york, some guy starts tooting at me and i give him a nasty look he liked you. whatever. he puts on his police lights and i was like shocked and that happened to somebody else i knew yesterday. there s a lot going on and again, some places it may be racial and other places it may be police overreach and training issue. you mentioned cleveland, obviously my hometown. the tragic place of the young boy with a toy gun horribly mistaken for a real weapon, do you think that has changed the dynamic of police citizen relations? for all of us, one, there is police citizen relations, when i grew up there was a policeman named bill, the crossing guard and you had real policeman doing crossing guards and we got to know him and it was a community policing issue. in cleveland, ohio, this guy that was hired got himself in big trouble in another department. they didn t even look at at the time. speaking of that, we have a minute left.