issue, only this time her answer was different. she said that she had been asked the question a million times and the answer, quote, remains the same. but, in fact, the first time, instead of saying the president had never spoken to hunter about his business dealings, she said this. the president was never in business with his son. so on wednesday, phil wegman from real clear politics pointed out the inconsistency, but john pierr pierre insisted it was the same. i just want to clear this up once for all. the president has said he s never discussed overseas business dealings with his son, but the white house now says that the president has never been in business with his son. so why the updated language? which statement is true? or is it semantics and they are both true? as i stated on monday, when i was asked this question multiple times, nothing has changed. nothing has changed. nothing has changed on this. and so you can ask me a million different ways on this quest
smerconish in philadelphia. in september of 2019, joe biden was asked how many$#ursqj he ha spoken to son hunter about his overseas business activities. the then candidate s answer a was this. i have never spoken to my son about that. that has remained his answer until this week. on monday white house press secretary was asked about this issue, only this time her answer was different. she said that she had been asked the question a million times and the answer remains the same. but in fact the first time instead of saying the president had never spoken to hunter about his business dealings, she said this. the president was never in business with his son. so on wednesday, phil wegman pointed out the insistent sit, but she insisted the answer was the same. i just want to clear this up once if and are all. the president has said he s never discussed overseas business dealings with his son, but the white house now says that the president has never been in business with
big question for the world tonight. thanks for joining us. you can watch us any time, anywhere on cnn go. have a good weekend. see you monday. ac 360 begins right now. good evening. we begin with more startling headlines from president trump. in just a last four days, he s threatened north korea with fire and fury, said maybe that wasn t enough of a threat. said american forces are locked and loaded and late today he said even more. appearing this morning outside his new jersey golf club, the president went before reporters. when he was over, he raised the possibility of u.s. military action in venezuela and renews his warnings to north korea. nobody loves a peaceful solution better than president trump, that i can tell you. hopefully it will all work out. but this has been going on for many years. it would have been a lot easier to solve this years ago before they were in the position that they re in. but we will see what happens. we think that lots of good things could happen
Military, says matthew. you would say what to him, peter? i would say we need to reconsider how we re treated treating the military in the culture war. republicans need to stop targeting the military, stop accusing the military by name and military leaders by name on the one hand. on the secondhand, democrats need to stop hiding behind the military to defend controversial policies. if it s a policy by the biden administration, civilian leaders in the department of defense take responsibility for advocating for it. then thirdly, the military needs to talk about its values, but in way that does not trigger culture war. so the military needs to recruit from all walks of life, but that doesn t mean they need to talk about dei or others that no longer mean to many members of americans what they once meant.
Off the battlefield? confidence in american institutions on the whole is in decline. small business is thu.s. institution in which we have the most faith followed by the american military. but even faith in the military is on the way. 60% of americans say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military. that s down 4% in the last year. a new book argues that even that level of support is actually hollow. peter fever is a political science professor at duke university. he s the author of thanks for your service, the causes and consequences of public confidence in the u.s. pmilitar. welcome back. if public confidence in the military is high but it s hollow, does that suggest that some don t mean it when they say thank you for your service? i think that s the case. it s what political psychologists call social