worse. how would you describe his explanation today? weak. it was as weak and as pathetic as his entire press conference. he just focused again on how bad that press conference was. he s rung the bell, don. he sold the country short. and he can t unring it. you can t change the word would to wouldn t when the rest of the statement around it and everything that precedes and follows doesn t fit. so he s not going to sell this to anybody with any intelligence at all. he can t seem to help himself when it seems to talking about no collusion, no collusion, because he brings that up. but listen, you were the white house counsel under nixon. you have said trump makes nixon look good by comparison. how is that? certainly with what s going on right now, i can tell you one thing. richard nixon, i never had any thought in my mind that he might
impartial. this can all be screened very well during the process of selecting the jury. i don t think manafort will have the problem of a biased jury. i want to ask you what happened today, is the president attempted to clean up the stunning statements from yesterday s summit. he seemed to make things even worse. how would you describe his explanation today? weak. it was as weak and as pathetic as his entire press conference. he just focused again on how bad that press conference was. he s rung the bell, don. he sold the country short. and he can t unring it. you can t change the word would to wouldn t when the rest of the statement around it and everything that precedes and follows doesn t fit. so he s not going to sell this to anybody with any intelligence at all. he can t seem to help himself when it seems to talking about no collusion, no collusion, because he brings that up. but listen, you were the white house counsel under nixon. you have said trump makes nixon look go
meant by that. it wasn t disrespectful. if her mind, she was only giving america another complement. absolutely. there is a confusion between naturalism and intentions confusion, maybe. there with is not a lot of nuance there. maybe bannon understands that. this is not a conversation we would have at mar-a-lago on the golf course to say the least. but you know, it s, patriotism is a sort of popular ver nal knack lar vernacular. it is nevertheless quite real. nationalism is the assertion of your own nations, your own tribe s interest above all in the broader, global struggle. that s what trump is. she a nationalist who speaks in patriotic terms. he s not the first. he won t be the last. remember the flag pins came into popular use in under nixon. he was the first to wear them.
it was not disrespectful to america, in her mind, she was giving america another compliment. absolutely. the other thing that s going on here is there is a confusion i think between nationalism and patriotism. when contended confusion maybe. there is not a lot of nuance there maybe bonnannon understan that. this is not a conversation we d have at mar-a-lago to say the least. patriotism is a love of vernacular. patriotism is a love of country. it can be a sentimental attachment. it s quite ream. nationalism is the aassociation of your nation your own tribes interest above all in the border global struggle. and that s what trump is. he s a nationalist who speaks in patriotic terms. he s not the first. he won t be the last. remember the flag pins came into popular use under nixon. nixon was the first one to wear them. because it was a way of saying
them. this week minnesota senator tina smith got a new challenger in the race for al franken s old senate seat, richard painter, frequent a.m. joy guest and long time republican to announced he will be running a as democrat. richard painter joins me now. richard, we are familiar with you defending the republican party that you are a member of for 30 some odd years. you ve now left the party. why? well, i ve defended the traditional values of the republican party which have eroded over several decades. the republican party is supposedly the party of small government, but wants to tell women whether or not to have an abortion. that makes no sense. the republican party under teddy roosevelt and richard nixon supported environmental protection, nixon founded they started the epa under nixon, now the republican party is backing scott pruitt in his effort to destroy the environment. the republican party used to respect fiscal responsibility