and white house press secretary. when sarah huckabee sanders says we don t get to dictate how other countries run their elections, we do get to express our outrage when dictators run sham elections. this is on donald trump, it s also on john kelly, his chief of staff who is failing to tell him hard truth. they were asked about this response we got from john mccain in response to what the president said earlier today and john mccain s response was this. an american president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. that was the first part of his statement. sarah was asked for rooks on john mccain. a.b., i had nothing note worthy written down. i m not sure they took on john mccain again there. bottom line, the president not willing to go there.
what s so interesting, too, brooke, this used to be a party that confronted the russians and but for john mccain and a few other sometimes, lindsey graham tweeted yesterday about it being a sham election. something, actually, pretty aggressive. but for just a handful of them really, who in the republican party stands up at moments like this and confronts vladimir putin anymore? they ve gone silent in the face of trump s silence. that is a huge turnaround, the early vetting trump s cabinet in the hearings for rex tillerson and others they took a tough line on this. in the months and year that s followed they ve got pretty mute on it. at least those who aren t leaving president they ve got mute especially the president taking on bob mueller, the special counsel. the briefing was on this mueller
hard telling the real deal from a knock-off. we ve just come down briefly. we were on our way. you wanted a couple of minutes. i like your tie. okay, that was not the real mikhail gorbachev. it was a renowned impersonator at trump tower who epically pranked donald trump. in 2008, it was sarah palin s turn, the governor of alaska, running for vice president on john mccain s ticket. she got a call from someone she thought was the french president. he flattered her, telling her she would make a good president one day. you know i see you as a president one day too. maybe in eight years. maybe not. that was not the french president but rather a well known comedy duo out of montreal. in 2011 scott walker thought he got a call from the billionaire david coke wanting an update on
remas remark, and carrie, any fallout of the polling or will he get away with it as he has in saying other thing, and only increases the support? well, it is the level of outrage expressed in mainstream media has inverse number of poll number, and they have gone up when he had disparaging comment s on john mccain s military record, and the series of statements about the mexican americans, and that has fueled the rise, and nothing about this statement is going to be different here, and it is worth looking into some of the poll numbers about what the republicans believe about the president, and there is a substantial chunk of republican primary voteers and some 30% to 40% who believe that the president might be muslim, and the people who are speak iing t or the people that donald trump are speaking to, i don t believe that their mind is going to be changed at all by this. and carrie, any indication if carly fiorina is going to be getting a bump as to the wildly applauded gop performa
controversy, and donald trump is the back of a town car somewhere scrolling through the twitter feed, and decided, ugh, i will say something about it. but it is just ridiculous the argument here, and obviously, when john mccain corrected one of the supporters in 2008 as you discussed earlier, obviously, the media did not attack him, and the crowd may have booed, but overall, it was a good moment for john mccain. and josh, how about the tweets and how much is generated by donald trump, and the campaign manager said, do some damage control and send it out? i suspect it is with the adviser advisers, because he was to speak with the heritage action event, and he pulled out of it citing a significant business transaction to handle which is unusual thing for him, and they realized they needed to say something to come back from it, but it is not that he just said that the guy, the questioner said that the president is a muslim, but he said that the