reliable information to communities and businesses so they can mitigate the financial and human costs associated with extreme weather. if wilbur ross is not allowing real news to get out, his putting businesses at risk. he s putting human lives at risk and over the long time why this matters so much is the credibility of the word of the united states has been so tarnished under the president. if we can t trust the weather, if we can t trust what s coming out of the white house. president trump is taking a page from putin spreading misinformation while engaging in senatorship a century sensorship and no one knows what is fact or fiction. i disagree. i think it s kim jong-un. it s a north korean style to government. let s call it non-democratic. the dear leader can never be seen to make a mistake. decent, honorable federal
yeah. you know? and you ve been there before in breaking news stories and on these stories. it is just unbelievable what s happening there. yeah, and the unknown is going to become a priority. they re going to have to do their rescue and their searching and we re going to have to stay on it and not forget because the need will only grow over time. it shines the light, don, why now is the time for leaders to be focused on things that matters. the last thing they should be focused on is themselves, and, yes, i m talking about our president. and a sharpie sharpie-gate, as you may want to call it. i hear the president s apologists saying, oh, it s petty, you shouldn t be focussing on it. no, it is. this is a news story. this is the president of the united states. if you can t trust what s coming out of the president of the united states mouth, where are we, who are we? especially as journalists, why wouldn t we cover that? you re supposed to be able to trust the president. and g
shifting and pivoting to tax reform. eventually we will come back to health care reform. at some point we will have the votes, but the folks who count the votes up here know we don t. that s why we re not voting. so people are watching this, right. this is the kind of thing that makes them feel like you know we can t trust these guys. we can t trust what s coming out of our politicians because it s always a game and advancing perspective. what do you say to people about what to believe? i think a lot of politicians generally, chris, speak in aspirational tones. they re optimistic. hopeful. want to see good things happen. we all do. at some point that meets reality. reality in the united states senate is the need for 50 votes. where we are right no is 48, 49. eventually maybe if we continue to develop and work this we ll end up with 50 votes to move it forward. we agree something has to be done. the markets continue to implode
abandon him. douglas, about this trust issue, they can t trust what s coming out of this white house. what does that say for the people who speak for the president? if you look at the person who speaks every day, at the briefing, if you look at the people who come on television? it seems that the public doesn t believe them. they think they re spinning or lying, as well. absolutely. they ve become comedy fodder. nobody thinks sean spicer was any good. everybody laughed about scaramucci. he was awful. he s never been able to handle the press aspect of being president. i think he decided he could war on the media and score points. well, he does with the cult of trump. but it hasn t served him very well. ronald reagan used to always say always operate above 50% of the box office. you want at least half the country to be on your side. he s now operating at 38%, he s under the mueller investigation
can t trust what president putin or trump say because both of them have been proven to lie on the record all the time. what we know is what president trump thinks about the russian election hacking says all the time the russians probably did it but others probably did it too. that s not supported by the intelligence. that s is not supported by the reporting. but that seems to be what the president of the united states believes. that it s very troubling. what we are looking for coming out of this meeting is what actions will the president take? will he support congressional sanctions? will he give back the compounds to the russians? that is the greatest indication of whether or not president trump believes the russians did this or not. coming up on state of the union later this morning, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley will be a guest for jake tapper today. i want you to listen to part of her interview. what he did was bring up right away the election meddling and he did th