president trump heaping praise on north korea s dictator kim jong-un while bashing the news media as america s biggest enemy. back with carl bernstein, matt ryan and april lewis. matt, i cut you off. it s all right. do you want to discuss this fake news thing? first, what would be saying, what w any center right conservative person be saying if president obama had done this, if he had basically met with the dictator, praised that dictator and attacked the press? it would be impeachment talk, i think. and it is. there should be. the other thing that really bothers me you think there should be impeachment talk? well, there is talk. look, i think that clearly i don t know that democrats want to talk about impeachment to be honest with you for political reasons, but we are where we are. but i also wanted to bring up the unconservative nature of what donald trump is doing. there is this old william f. buckley quote. people who compare the kgb to the cia, it s basically like
when i was in china and other places, by the way, i said, mr. president, do you have a drug problem? no, no, no. we do not. i said, huh? big country. 1.4 billion people, right? not much of a drug problem. i said what do you attribute that to? well, the death penalty. honestly, i don t know that the united states, frankly, is ready for it. they should be ready for it. president trump heaping president on the chinese justice system. amanda carpenter floating the prospect of executing drug dealers in this country. what s going on here? i thought this part of the discussion was fascinating. was it extreme, yes, but he is absolutely on to something in pushing the envelope on this issue? absolutely. people are dying in their cars, in the streets as a result of this opioid crisis, but here s my question, the drug dealer in this case is big pharma. i want a discussion of how we
when i was in china, and other places, by the way, i said, mr. president, do you have a drug problem? no, no, no. we do not. i said, huh, big country. 1.4 billion people, right? not much of a big problem. i say, what do you attribute that to? well, the death penalty. honestly, i don t know that the united states, frankly, is ready for it. they should be ready for it. president trump heaping praise on the chinese justice system, amanda carpenter, floating the prospect of executing drug dealers in this country. what s going on here? i thought this part of his discussion was fascinating. was it extreme? yes. but is he on to something in pushing the envelope on this issue? absolutely. people are diagnose ying, in th
trump emerge from marine one. they will of course now hop aboard air force one for that trip back aboard washington, d.c. the president and the first lady and the vice president as well were in florida getting a firsthand look at some of the damage from hurricane irma. we just played that sound bite from the president talking about the people of florida. it is of course a state that he does know quite well. mar a lago, what he has dubbed the winter white house, was part of the forced evacuation when irma hit last week. there s the president and first lady, hopping aboard. it looks like the back of governor rick scott. that is governor rick scott there as well. president trump heaping a great deal of praise on the florida governor. in fact, at one point a few hours ago, said he hoped governor scott would run for the tenant, praising his response to the state s efforts there. governor scott held a news conference a short time ago. and said his chief concern right now is the power outages
bill: president-elect donald trump pushing ahead for his pick of secretary of state. exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson setting up potential showdown in the u.s. senate, including members of his own party who have concerns over ties to the russia leader vladmir putin. mr. trump heaping praise on his pick just last night in wisconsin. very excited about rex. you know rex is friendly with many of the leaders in the world that we don t alongwith. some people don t like that. they don t want to be friendly. i am doing the deal with rex because this is what it is all about, tennessee north bob corker chairing the senate foreign relations committee leading you re on the short list. why do you think he went in a different direction? look, as, as i said when president-elect trump called me on monday night rex tillerson is