strong democracy, whatever that means. pretty shocking. we are not the only ones who vomit hard to believe, the washington post insinuated that we made that up. unfortunately, we did not. the presidents are segment and he tweeted this response. i ve asked pompeo to study the south africa land and farm seizures. hope we did talk about those lt night but we did not address the killings. in any case, the state department elaborated. here s part of it. i should mention that the taking of land, our position is that would sent south africa down the wrong path. we continue to encourage a public debate about what we consider to be a very important issue in south africa. tucker: that was kind of tepid, it will not solve the problem but it is good news. pushing back against racial discrimination is always worth doing. and yet for some reason,
the piece going down on the hill. our teams have just talked with multiple senators, including some supporters of donald trump. while some may be waking up today hoping, wishing, praying yesterday never happened, the response publicly has been kind of tepid so far. you have house speaker paul ryan, who did say something, something short, in two sentences, saying he is aware of the guilty plea but needs more info. for mitch mcconnell, his senate counterpart, nothing so far. john cornyn said people who do bad things need to be held accountable. adding that this has nothing to do with russia. kasie hunt, i think, has sneakers on today, chasing people around the hall today. what s going on this morning? reporter: hallie, it is clear this story does have something of a different tenor than some of the other conversations that we ve had. let me tell you, a lot of these members of congress are really sick of all of us running after them in the hallways, asking about the latest trump tweet.
guard, the state department was caught off guard. how does that make the president look when he is meant to be, you know, the deal maker, the mr. art of the deal? yeah, it looks like they were not as you know, as aware of the situation as they shove. you know, previously when north korea has, you know, made one of their sort of over-the-top statements about these joint exercises, what the american president and what the white house does is come out and forcefully defend the exercises because, remember, what kim is complaining about are these military exercises that are in defense of south korea. i think what is a little surprising is that you didn t hear the white house or president trump himself come out and say, you know, these exercises are important, south korea is a staunch ally, and explain and defend them. instead, you had this sort of, you know, this moment where they didn t say a whole lot, and when they did actually put out a statement it was sort of tepid.
president trump himself come out and say, you know, these exercises are important, south korea is a staunch ally, and explain and defend them. instead, you had this sort of, you know, this moment where they didn t say a whole lot, and when they did actually put out a statement, it was sort of tepid. to me it suggests what a lot of people are worried about with these negotiations is that president trump is so eager for a deal, any deal, that he s willing to sort of forget about what is most important from our national security and the national security of our allies in the region. yeah, well, that s what foreign policy experts believe the same thing, wondering the same thing you just said here, ryan, is he too eager. i m wondering by doing that, josh, so giving kim jong-un more leverage? well, let s be clear here. north koreans are doing crazy stuff because that s what the north koreans do, right?
example this week, apple s going to sell a trillion iphones when it comes out. here with the hurricanes disney opens up a couple days later the parks are already packed so business is business, we re back to business and the american people are going at it again and i think the markets reflecting it right now. dagen: and gary b., we had names like boeing, caterpillar, even dow dupont hitting all-time highs on friday. no fear there. well, i m a little bit more t epid or conservative than gary k is. maybe being a more, maybe i was more in the storm than gary k. was i know he was in orlando but i think this was a sigh of relief rally. i mean, here in florida, frankly , it was horrible but it could have been worse. we re still getting over the tragedy in houston but even that could have been worse. any time north korea fires a missile, i think people give a