teleprompter talking about going on an international trip. and it s a trip that i think many americans if you re just casually watching the news would say it was a pretty good chip. i think american relations with china right now, if you re concerned with freedom of the press, america playing footsie with authoritarian leaders, you probably don t love part of the way trump s trip talking to china went. it s certainly that america is better off when we re doing well with china. and i do think that trump can walk away from this trip saying that he did achieve that. what tangibly can he say was achieved? you heard him say he s ready to do business when unilateral trade deals with any country that wants to enjoy free and fair trade. he threw away and the congress threw away the pacific trade deal that was a multilateral agreement. what specifically i understand the intangible sense of america s back, we re strong in the world, people respect us. some polls suggest some countries that s
things commingled with the neonazis and kkk members. right, i mean what s really strike something how different he was from last night. he was reading from a teleprompter talking about afghanistan. today he was back to normal ad-libbing but yes it was striking he took out the pieces of paper. he wanted to speak directly about every single thing he said. but he did leave out both sides. he also left out the name of the woman who was killed. he eventually brought her up. but it was way into that. pan it wasn t just to talk about ewe you how his thoughts and prayer with with the family he just mentioned here. there were a lot of things strike about it. it was striking all the things he didn t talk about. all the policy issues he was ostensibly going there to talk about immigration. he barely mentioned that health care tax reform barely got a mention so he could do 30 minutes on the media. robert costa i m told he cranked the one hour mark on
television to make announcements in and out of segments, but if you are reading something off the teleprompter you lose the connection with the voter. i know business people are upset with this president when they go to meet him at the white house, areas with a teleprompter talking and he walks out of the room, that is not a meeting. it is important about communicating. to answer your question fully, i think the president ever since he saw a run for the election going the wrong way has been listening. boy is that powerful stuff. listening to the american people. and getting a grip on where they are at and being able to react to that. i think he s been doing that effectively. actually, with fine performance the last couple of months. it is a different presidency since we saw which way the voters were going. and he s paying attention. this from our prompter-less anchor who never loses touch with the viewers. no, i use it for announcements. but i don t think we should use it for somet
teleprompter talking about afghanistan. today he was back to normal ad-libbing but yes it was striking he took out the pieces of paper. he wanted to speak directly about every single thing he said. but he did leave out both sides. he also left out the name of the woman who was killed. he eventually brought her up. but it was way into that. pan it wasn t just to talk about ewe you how his thoughts and prayer with with the family he just mentioned here. there were a lot of things strike about it. it was striking all the things he didn t talk about. all the policy issues he was ostensibly going there to talk about immigration. he barely mentioned that health care tax reform barely got a mention so he could do 30 minutes on the media. robert costa i m told he cranked the one hour mark on this speech. clearly a lot of penalties up energy. at least when we came on the air last night with the afghanistan coverage we made plain that last night s speech was designed to have a shelf life of a