That wraps up this important hour. Im stephanie ruhle. Ill see you at 1 00. Here comes hallie jackson. An extraordinary morning and weve got special coverage of it for the next hour live from new york which is where my job covering the president is bringing us as he brings his brand of America First in the world stage in just a matter of moments. But his political future may not hang on what eats about to address, iran, north korea. Instead its ukraine with the ground shifting back home on impeachment. Some democrats now calling this a Tipping Point, including one lawmaker live with us in just a minute. Furious that the president appeared to be asking a foreign power for help, investigating a political rival. Heres the president arriving at the u. N. Just a minute ago. That was a perfect call. So what is different . What makes today unlike all the
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again, rather muted in president trump here in what is a closely watched speech around the world. i want to bring in kristen welker who is at the unite nations general assembly and carol lee, ambassador christopher hill, christopher hill, national security analyst evelyn farcass, and former adviser to the united nations and also bret mcgirk, some of the smartest analysts and leading contributors around the country. let s get your takeaways from what we heard from the president and reaction from the room. it seemed that there were murmurs when the president talked about the u.s. is the most powerful country. he says the future does not belong to globalists which appears to be the president s philosophy moving forward as it relates to america first. reporter: that s right. this was doubling, tripling down on his america first foreign policy, some murmurs in the room
something we haven t heard from him before. yeah. and on iran, he talked a hot about what iran is doing and that they will keep the sanctions on, but no sense of how that they would respond to the strike on the saudi arabia oil facilities. so that is still a big open question. evelyn, you made the point broadly that it felt like more of a state of the union speech than a u.n. general assembly given how nationalistic president trump seemed. and yes, it sounded to me like the state of the union address which was completely inappropriate for this audience. not the first time the president has done this. but that plus the america first, you know, and he confused so many things. he doesn t know what a state is versus a nation. he says if you love your nation, you will have peace. actually it is if you love your state. because nations can be ethnically defined, religious lie defined. it is very different than what america is. so i think the message was really negative. it was either
we want to unleash the forces of national am arouism around the . but our foreign policy is a bit of a mess. we have all these grand objectives, but iran is key. i agree that we are on a trajectory for a conflict with iran. i don t think that trump understands this. he thinks iran is like north korea. we can threaten them and they will come back to the table and that is not the course that he is on right now. he is in a real corner. evelyn, i have about ten seconds left here, but i want to get to you because there have been develops already related to the whistleblower complaint that reportedly based on this phone call that president trump had with the president of ukraine. he is set to meet with the ukrainian leader tomorrow and je biden is likely to make comments later this afternoon. just as the president is giving his speech. how do you see this unfolding? yeah, there is nothing to the biden scandal. there is no biden scandal. it was international policy. i think the real issue