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were described in the most deplorable of terms. it s extraordinary to think of it. she referred to those people as irredeemable. i will tell you right now, i campaign on a regular basis with donald trump. i campaign all across this country for donald trump. hillary clinton s low opinion of the people that support this campaign should be denounced in the strongest possible terms. the truth of the matter is that the men and women who support donald trump s campaign are hard-working americans, farmers, coal miners, teachers, veterans, members of our law enforcement community, members of every class of this country who know that we can make america great again. so let me just say from the bottom of my heart, hillary, they are not a basket of anything, they are americans, and they deserve your respect. [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause ] i ve not heard that level of disdain for americans that i can even repeat since barack obama described people that opposed him as ....
In trial to remove him from office. and i think there s a sense as well the president is not used to taking criticism from all sides including republicans in the senate who have normally stood by him. the house has voted against his syria policy with a lot of republicans crossing over before that meeting. and senator mcconnell he was in the meeting as well, he just told reporters, quote, i didn t have anything to say in the meeting and i don t have anything to say about it now. charlie, what is your sense, too, jonathan brings up how republican senators are reading trump right now, how they re looking at him. what s your sense of what they re seeing and how they re processing it? it can t enhance their confidence in the commander in chief. one of the things that s frustrating president trump is he s used to being able to dpikitate events, dictate the news cycle and this is an incident and right now we re seeing in syria it s clearly out of his control. ....
Was carrying out its policy towards ukraine. today lawmakers heard behind closed doors from michael mckinley, the former top aide to secretary of state mike pompeo. and according to npr mckinley during the closed door hearing criticized, quote, what appears to be our utilizeiation of our ambassadors oversees. he also said, quote, i was disturbed by the implication that foreign governments were being approached to procure negative information on political opponents. additionally nbc news reports that in his deposition yesterday deputy assistant secretary of state george kent told lawmakers how career professionals were cut out of the loop. he testified that in a meeting last may, quote, acting chief of staff mick mulvaney oversaw a meeting where he side lined state department officials and tapped three political appointees to oversee you crane ....
The commander in chief in the white house. but if you look at the picture more carefully you ll see everyone around the president has their heads down and bowed and pelosi looks in a command position of strengths and the democrats walked out of the meeting soon thereafter. reportedly the president s comments about jim mattis and you can think back a couple of years ago, obviously brought him into his cabinet trump did. trump used to celebrate him at public events, talk about him as mad dog, he seemed to love that nickname. from that reverence to what he s saying today, what do you make of it? well, first of all it s going to be a really long year, isn t it? look, this president has been petty and petulant before but you really got the sense as jonathan described he was rattled by this. this doesn t seem to be the performance of a confident man but also his willingness to insult men like general mattis, i think it carries some risk for him. because one of his strongest constituencie ....
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