he goes out there as a guy who is trashing nato and said he liked the military bond of our countries, but not the political bond, it seems. you speaking to me? i m so sorry. yes, you said it all. anyone who has read any little bit of history and for me, i lived through it, knows that the miracle of the alliance, the miracle of stopping nazi germany and building a united europe and a free europe, he sides with the tyrants. he is dangerous. maybe it should say on his hat trump first and another set that says russia first or kim jong un first. it s shocking and it s not even about norms. it s about someone who doesn t get it, who doesn t understand what it takes to keep us safe and keep the world free from
about their involvement in discussions of a trump tower deal in moskow that reportedly would have included a bribe of a $50 million apartment for vladimir putin. joining us now is msnbc political analyst ben rodes, and david corn is still with us. ben, your reaction to the developments today and what it has meant for what was going to be the one on one with donald trump and vladimir putin. well, first of all i think it s very important to note that what we learned today definitively is that russia knew that trump had engaged in these actions of trying to get business through trump tower in moskow. so russia had the goods on trump. russia knew something that was blackmailable on trump, had leverage on trump. when we look back on how trump has behaved, trashing our allies, trashing nato, we may have a clear explanation of why which is that putin knew
it s very important to note that what we learned today definitively is that russia knew that trump had engaged in these actions of trying to get business through trump tower in moskow. so russia had the goods on trump. russia knew something that was blackmailable on trump, had leverage on trump. when we look back on how trump has behaved, trashing our allies, trashing nato, we may have a clear explanation of why which is that putin knew something about donald trump that trump probably didn t want in the public space. people have to be wondering what else does putin know about trump he doesn t want in the public space? and i can guarantee you all these world leaders g20 are wond the same thing. this is really an embarrassment to the united states. let s take a look back at the last one on one summit between these two. and the question that vladimir putin answered honestly. did you want president trump to win the election? and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
smallest scandal of his trip. but once again he s trashing nato and saying that our allies are taking advantage of us. by the way, this summer he was claiming that he had turned nato around, they were suddenly contributing all this new money and it was suddenly a wonderful deal. now he s back to his old complaint that it s a ripoff, they re taking advantage of us. this is just not how you expect a statesman to behave. this is not how you expect a president of the united states to behave. and you would think after all this time in office he would have gotten it but he is incapable of learning on the job. max, frank, douglas, thank you all. i appreciate it. thank you. white supremacists cheering on the republican women in the senate. why they re viewing it as a win for themselves.
to do. we ve seen this time and again, though. remember before where he was in the golf kars and everyone else was walking. he sees, he thinks, that when he is separate and apart from everybody else that means he s at a plane above them, that he s not beholden to the same obligations. what he doesn t understand is the rest of us look at that and we wonder why our president is, as you said, missing in action and what that s doing to our place and our standing on the world stage and what it says about us as a people. i m embarrassed. and what that alliance has done for us for decades. absolutely. and once again, this is the smallest scandal of his trip. but once again he s trashing nato and saying that our allies are taking advantage of us. by the way, this summer he was claiming that he had turned nato around, they were suddenly contributing all this new money and it was suddenly a wonderful deal. now he s back to his old complaint that it s a ripoff, they re taking advantage of us.