And Elizabeth Warren may have taken a step closer to winning. We have the head of a group that just gave her a key endorsement that used to belong to Bernie Sanders. What do you say . Lets get after it. Locked and loaded, the catchy phrase President Trump tweeted about a possible american response to the armed drone assault on the saudi oil fields. He thinks iran did it. He has the backup of u. S. Officials. But look at some of the words that surround locked and loaded. Theres reason to believe that we know the culprit but are waiting to hear from the kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of the attack. The president is taking his cues from mbs . Tulsi gabbert made a stunning analogy. Youre offering our military assets to the dictator of saudi arabia to use as he sees fit is a betrayal of my brothers and sisters in uniform. My fellow Service Members and i, we are not your prostitutes. You are not our pimp. P provocative words. Obviously its going to get coverage. We have matt schlapp here, he leads the american conservative union. Good to be here. This is not petty, im bad, youre worse politics going on here. Do you have confidence that the president has the people around him to help negotiate this very tight space with iran . I think its a tough question. I think it would be tough for any president to negotiate this, and i have great confidence in the team he has pulled together. I think has the president has proceeded in his presidency, as the first outsider president since probably george washington, hes figured out the job as hes gone and i think hes pulled the people around him he trusts. He just got rid of his National Security, going on his fourth juaone. He and john bolton clearly had disagreement. The president has the right to make changes as barack obama made changes at the chief of staff level almost every year he was president , bill clinton went through chief of staffs. Its aroundtheclock work. It has to be one of the toughest jobs in politics, same for the National Security advisers. National security is much more sensitive than chief of staff. Theyre similar jobs. With chief of staff, theres one. With the National Security adviser, you have almost like a whole war cabinet. Mike pompeo was very able. I know several of the people involved in deputy rolls. But chief of staff is a political, functionary, National Security adviser it sounds like and to be honest, this is not this president s strong point. He had the least experience of all thee deals with in Foreign Policy, but thats who weve been electing president. Barack obama didnt have a lot of Foreign Policy experience, george w. Bush didnt have a lot of Foreign Policy experience. The last president to have a significant amount of Foreign Policy experience was george bush 41. Weve done it over and over and over again. The question is what is he going to do with the challenges before him. I talked to several people who advised him and National Security and said what are we going to do if this country is challenged . Its a question every president is asked. He set a hard table for himself because hes got a divided populous that he spends a lot of time attributed and fomenting division. Now this is something of his own reckoning. He blew up that iran deal to our next topic, which is negating obama, which is something of fundamental importance to this president , he blew up that deal for that reason. He had nothing to replace it with. He just thought doing this is disruptive, this is why they brought me here. He loosed that company on the middle east. They are vindictive and old and savvy as we both know as students of history. He started this. This is maybe the biggest threat to his presidency, matt. Obama let loose 150 billion in assets to the iran regime, the number one funder of terror. You can make an argument of whether they had a legal right to that. That money will go to fomenting jihad around the globe. I urged the president to pull out of the iran deal. The iran deal that we had had no proper verification. Thats not true. It is true. No, it is not true. It had more vare if verificatio before it. We had to give them notice before we could walk in any facility so they could cover their tracks. President s of both parties did this. We didnt want a confrontation with north korea so we tried to extend the timeline by which they would nuclearize. Its a similar policy obama approached with iran, extend the time and hope that something changed. You had a deal, multicoalition, big countries that iran had to worry about iran would have a Nuclear Weapon at the end of that term. It was only about enriching, it was a decade and now you have nobody looking at what theyre doing. They ran around in syria, theyre doing it in yemen in a situation out of control and now theyre bombing his buddy in his back yard, if thats true. People love the idea that a treaty was somehow going to keep iran in a box. The fact is a lot of people and i will say i was one of them believed that that treaty was an appeasement to iran. It giave them funding to do all this around the globe. It we should try a different way. I dont understand this argument. Just like north korea. Do you agree that on north korea it would be better if we had taken steps ten and 20 years ago to prevent north korea from getting a Nuclear Weapon . I dont believe we can look back that way. So its inevitable and theres nothing you can do . No, you made deals with partners like iran that just delayed the time they get the Nuclear Weapon. It delayed the window but gave you a pause and gave you something to work with. You removed it and have nothing except you think iran would have bombed, if thats true and the president says he believes its true because u. S. Officials are telling him what is true . That iran was behind what happened in saudi arabia. I cant know. I know what i read and it appears thats the case. Thats what the president said and thats what he says what the officials say. That takes us to another issue, will the people bleaelieve the American People. I know of you talk about the president fomenting division. Barack obama at this point in his presidency was at 39 in his president ial approvals. We dont like with what obama was doing to the country, we disagreed vehemently and a lot of us felt we couldnt voice it as extensively as those under this administration can express it. I covered that administration. We werent dealing with anything like with what were dealing with right now and that goes for obama also. He was coming out of one of the worst economic situations this country has ever seen, and as is fair play, he wound up paying for that early on. He still had spikes over 50. This president has had no spikes over 50. He never gets a spike over majority barack obama had a spike over 50 for two significant periods of time, one when he assassinat assassinated bin laden, good for him. The second time was as he approached november 2012, if you track where obama has been as he was leading up to reelection, trump is about where he is or higher. The fact is the direction of the country i have not seen that. This president has the highest negative ratings weve ever seen. You have over half the country who thinks he cant be believed. Thats a different question. Let me take a break. Lets come back and talk about what we think is going to matter in this next election cycle. Well finish on this point. Well take a look at taxes and where you are on that about what transparency means and well go forward from there, all right . Deal. I gave you a little cheat there on what the tease is but obviously what is going to matter in this election. Will transparency matter . Is this going to wind up about impeachment . 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The fact is that the people who say that trump is so demonized and hated by the American People that somehow his polls are low, its important to remember hes higher than where bill clinton was, he higher than where barack obama. In fact, barack obama in september, the same time, the year before the 14 months or whatever before his reelection, he was at a lower Approval Rating than donald trump. As much as people focus on those who dont like him, theres a whole other part of the country that love him. His approval with rfconservativ republicans in modern history. Do you believe any other president being told six out of ten believe you dont deserve a second term . I agree that clear politics has him at 45 or 50. What matters is do pollsters accept him . If theyre conservative slanted and getting more people in your party that gives officer representative sample. Im not talking about polls that are slanted. Im saying ill agree he has people on the other side that dont like him strongly. Majority of people. By the way, most people in Barack Obamas presidency didnt like what he was doing. The difference with donald trump is you cant find a policy on a major issue that is different than what he said he would do. Under barack obama you can find many differences. Donald trump, you cant be surprised, you dont have to like him, you can say i dont like the twitter, you can say hes dividing people all that you want. He said what he was going to do. Hes simply doing it. Its pretty simple. The problem with numbers is you can always find one you like. Im happy to talk about numbers i dont like. Heres one. Other than carter and again, unpresenu unprecedented problems at home and abroad, which is one well have to think about because he might have created his own problems. Hong kong protesters, thats a hard challenge. Other than carter, they were at 32, 33, 34. I just walked through the numbers where obama is. You can say jimmy carter is the basement. Obama was at 43 at this time in his administration. The way i look at polls is this, instead of cherry picking one, you have a cnn poll, i believe you believe in the cnn poll, fox believes in the fox polls. I look at the average of all the polls. Some people say the polls are skewed to trump and some skewed against trump, thats a waste of tim time. Obama was lower than where trump is at this time. The time you get screwed up is if you have a bad economy or a scandal abroad. And thats what kavanaugh no, thats not true. I think a large majority of the American People are sick and tired of talking about his taxes not his taxes. The taxes make no sense to anybody. I ill give you the scandal. He did not say im going to distract and lie and create doesnt propagandize that. Whats the propaganda . I would lo to go through who determined what the lies are. A lot of it is split capolitica and errors. Just today i never said id meet with preconditions i dont think the iran regime, the north korean regime. On taxes, nobody gets it. You say theres nothing in your taxes. Show them. It will show transparency that we can take you at your word and maybe youre right. We have talked about this so many times. Theres a lot of people who believe that trump is not giving his taxes because he has something to hide. The fact is in a democracy, hes up in just 14 months, the right way to handle this is if you think in his taxes it shows somehow hes tied to putin you dont think someone who wants to be president should have to show their taxes . I dont think it should be mandated. Especially somebody who has the complicated financial structures he has in which we havent seen in a president. I think the American People, chris, are exhausted. At least half of us are exhausted from this. You believe that president ial candidates should not reveal their financial position through their taxes to the American People . I think theyre okay with the fact that donald trump gave an explanation to the American People has to why he wasnt turning them over and i thisnk e spent two years bob mueller had the ability to look at donald trump east taxes. He did not look at the taxes. I have good feelings he didnt do it. Your feelings dont matter. Look they didnt say one way another but they had access to every document they wanted. Ywe dont know they did. Yes, they did. How do you know . According to the white house lawyers, they were given every document. They didnt have to go through the taxes. Reporter did mueller get the taxes . I believe you believe. You dont nope whether he had the taxes, true or false . I believe that mueller looked at every financial you dont know he had access to the taxes he had the access to the taxes. If hed turn these over, we wouldnt even be having the conversation. Thats not true. The democrat strategy is to beat him on scanned and and personal impropriety. They want to find the next phony story. Everybody else puts out their taxes. Nobody in modern time has had as complicated taxes whens our last billionaire president . I dont know that we have one now. We have Tax Professionals that could look through this. Then youre saying the forbes 400 is wrong . You know where they get their information . From him. A lot of sources. Do you know what they do when they look at it . Go ask obrien over at msnbc who was at the times, what happens when you look at it . The number goes down, down, down, down. All im saying is the fishing expedition, whether or not its impeachment or anything else. If he showed the taxes, all the intrigue goes away. Thats the opposite of the truth. Look at cnn alone. If they had ten years or eight years of trumps taxes, you dont think theyre going to take the next 14 months trying to find any small flaw they can find in there and say that disqualifies him for reelection . The American People get the game on this, at least half of us do. What we want to talk about is the issues. Even in this conversation, lets talk about iran, saudi arabia, guns, lets talk about taxes, lets talk about socialized medicine, lets talk about these issues. Hold on, just to be clear, he doesnt talk about those things. Because he doesnt talk about those things. Two years on russian collusion. Im sorry, when russia interferes in our election and the president s campaign is going out of its way barack obama didnt stop them. He did not know what he needed to do. We knew eventually and he went to mcconnell, mcconnell wouldnt do it in a bipartisan way and that president didnt want to he doesnt have to do what Mitch Mcconnell wants. He made a mistake. Mitch mcconnell do plenty of things that obama wanted. He said im here to make him a oneterm president. Thats how the parties work. We try to beat each other. Youre supposed to represent people who have similar ideals, not just be oppositional. Same as the news media. Im asking the man to put out his taxes. Youre a journalist, you want more information so you could say hes a crook. I would love the ability to say weve had the people scrub the taxes, weve expect too much time on it. Would you agree that the mash majority of people wasted time on rust collusion . No. His campaign was running around trying to have contacts they shouldnt have had. Did they commit crimes . No, i dont believe they did. So you get the taxes, you get them 100 fair . You say they wont be transfixed on a new way to get them . We are distracted on issues that dont matter. He doesnt talk about policy, matt, and you know it. I disagree. When is the last time he talked about his vision of tax policy for this country . Were working on a tax cut and 83 of every dollar went to me. This is where i was trying to get to with the polls before we took it to the break. Under donald trump, more americans feel better about their economic situation, which is predominantly middle class people than they did under the socialism of barack obama. The fact is his policies are working to help people in their lives. Heres the deal, heres the bet. If what im saying is hyped, he wont win. Not true. You could be totally wrong on your numbers analysis and he could still