very unfortunate what s going on. republicans go out and vote. he was frustrated bye bye it which was attacked all over the place. i guess it isn t fair in some cosmic sense that the president isn t allowed by some people in their minds to be as mean to the press or his other critics as they are to him. but, you know what? it s the reality and it s always been a part of the role of president that your job is not to, as the president likes to say when somebody hits you hit back twice as hard. rather, the president s role at least historically pour oil on troubled waters use soothing rhetoric in times of conflict, to try to soften the political divisions all around us. and, so, he says people scream at him that he is being unpresidential. i think he is being unpresidential. and it s just never going to happen. i think we have seen enough evidence that president trump just doesn t sort of
moment is so serious. that s because senator mccain loved this country and stood for the values of this country where president trump just doesn t even understand where we came from. and, you know, typically in history you have these times where someone steps into the oval office and realize the importance, they take it offer themselves and put country first. we don t see this. we see a president that s not able to step up to the challenge. steve, how does this affect everything else? it could be one could argue this is as great as the great depression. does it affect our economy, the faith people have in leadership when there s a lack of it right now we have to see how it unfolds. depends what else happens. if this is the end of it that s one scenario. if this continues it could undermine the country.
and i wonder what your concern is moving forward. if you have someone who thinks more like a dictator, or who thinks more as a fascist or doesn t think in the best interest of the united states of america what they might do in a situation like this to sow doubt in the american people and make this bad situation worse? i think the most important thing to recognize this is a true crisis we re facing right now and during a crisis what a normal leadership challenge would be is to stop everything else they are doing, bring everybody together, and make people feel that he s on top of the crisis. think of what he could have done. every now and then imagine what another president would have done. he would have called in president obama and president clinton and people at cnn brought them iran, to solve this together. when he went out he could have said imagine what would have happened if we attacked those
fact. we have a national security interest in peace in europe. europe is one of our greatest trading partners. as a whole, our greatest trading partner. we again fit from peace. if we don t have nato in place, there could be war. we know what that looks like. world war one and world war ii. peace through strength an idea that ronald reagan talked about is in america s national interest irrespective of how much germany spends on defense budget. i m for increasing the spending, president trump just doesn t understand what alliances are about and he demonstrated that in that speech in montana. on top of that, malcolm, he seems to view vladimir putin as a, a potential friend of his personally, and almost someone he would take advice on. this is donald trump on fox news june 14 how he would speak with putin if he met with him
president trump just doesn t really align with my values. he called my friends s.o.b.s. you would feel like, all right, i understand why you don t want to go? why, because the president. i m joined now by mike lupica and shermicah singleton who worked on three republican presidential campaigns and is a writer. shermicah, what do you think? i think if you truly want to test a man s character and the measure of a man, give him power, right? and as we have seen throughout the presidency of donald trump lemati problatic parts w he is, if you will. and it s really complex. i think when you think about the robert mueller investigation, you think about what s going on with paul manafort, there is, indeed, a darkloud that continues to linger over this you know, i m going to go ahead and redirect you to the topic at hand. yes, so my point, ari, is this. i think the president is simply using this as a distraction. hmm.