doesn t read and he doesn t study and he doesn t prepare. david: this president doesn t read? joe from the hill.com joining me now on this. it s extraordinary. i mean the president doesn t read? these comments are so beyond, joe and what s interesting is it was only 12 hours earlier when everybody was saying that this is one of the best things that any president has ever done with regard to north korea. it s almost as if, david, a memo went around like you guys are being a little bit too nice to this guy at this point that s not usually the game plan, like remember 2008 senator phil graham from texas said that we re a nation of whiners, and he got a lot of blowback, but i think that saying can apply to our media, we re very good and profoundly accomplished at complaining about things and wining about things but solutions are very offered and look the criticism is coming from the left and ride the national review editorial board doesn t think this is a good
the narrative is just that trump is a baffoon, and that kim jong-un is this 34 year old mass murderer is some kind of genius he s going to run circles around and i just want to take issue with one thing we heard in those clips which is trump has no idea what s going on in north korea. trump has been talking about this for a long time. i want to play a meet the press clip from 1999 where donald trump was on talking about north korea play the clip. president trump: we have a country in north korea which is sort of wacco, not a bunch of dummies and they are going out and they are developing nuclear weapons and they re not doing it because they re having fun doing it they re doing it for a reason and wouldn t it be good to sit down and really negotiate something and ideally negotiate and if that negotiation doesn t work you better solve the problem now than solve it later. david: so here is a man who became president been talk about this issue for a lot longer than some of these critics
time to ebeing able to reframe yourself. precisely that s the time when it s important for the government to step in. other countries have done this very well. sweden is a small economy, normally a small economy and they said, ke weren t close our borders. we have to remain open, but they recognized that if they re going remain open there s going to be jobs lost, and those new jobs, not created to match the jobs lost, and they ve created active labor market policies so their more open than the united states yet don t have the problem the united states has and more receptive to immigrants. unfortunately, dbt onald tru is not the first guy to read this wrong. politicians have not embraced this idea of what did you call it? active labor market? active labor market policy. joe good to see you. joseph stiglitz, former world
promising to bring back all of the jobs he considers casualties of globalization. listen to what the president said during his asia trip last month. we are not going to let the united states be taken add avane of anymore. i am always going to put america first the same way i expect all of you in this room to put your countries first. the question, to what extent is globalization responsible for the plight of the american working class and what can be done about it? i want to bring in joseph stigli stiglitz. author a of book called globalization and its discontents revisited. the president came out in st. louis the other day and blew us out. joe, ask you this. hillary clinton didn t rail against it, bernie sanders did. for the american workers it
and the security just like the marines did. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you re a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children. we re the williams family, and we re usaa members for life. neil: all right. well, today was a big announcement. this was widely anticipated and certainly telegraphed here. the biggest tax cuts since 1986 when ronald reagan was president. the former chairman of ubs and chairman and ceo of 9 b, joe good to see you. good to see you. neil: details have to be worked out and whether it s paid for or not, but many republicans i talked to say you don t have to pay for tax cuts. so as deficits get worse near term, don t worry about it. do you worry about it?