blumenthal senator from condition condition. foreign british minister. now the president ceo of the international rescue community. and white house correspondent. i want to start with senator blumenthal, i believe he is embarrassing us over there. i don t mean progressives or independents or reasonable trump resistant. why would he start a fight in the kitchen with all of nato? he is essentially playing from vladimir putin s playbook. vladimir putin wants to sew discordant division. in other words, within germany, emboldening the right wing which
something out. we pay far too much and they pay far too little. i have nato, and i have the uk, and i have putin. frankly, putin may be the easiest of them all. who would think? another indication that trump has no problem trashing american s closest allies. here he goes. did we have a good relationship with russia? believe me, that is a good thing. a fantastic thing if we got along with russia and with putin. i hope we do have good relationships with russia. i have been saying it for years. i think it is very important to get along with russia. i think i could have a very good relationship with russia and with president putin and if it did, it would be a great thing. that s a good thing not a bad thing. getting along with russia
tell nato, you got to start paying your bills. united states is not going to take care of everything. welcome back to hardball. president trump playing to his crowd in montana. regardless of the fact that more than half of a century, it has been republican orthodox wanting a strong nato alliance. trump over in brussels continuing his attack on our allies. by a vote of 97-2 reaffirming our support of nato. warned that the president s performance in europe could have adver adverse consequences. very concerned that we have a rough meeting with nato. and conciliatory meeting with
the french is convenient for him. i have been reading a lot and steve, now the name escapes me, steve kornacki s book. voiced more loudly by, you know, president trump. but there is a big difference. pat was a big believer in western values and here he is, this president of ours humiliating us. trying to destroy the western alliance. your thoughts. it is a fascinating debate. when you think back to buick
he knows how to spin on television. and if michael cohen can t get money out of the old people, maybe he might get it from friends of bill clinton. what do you think this john macc mcenroe at breakfast? he was a different trump. he didn t change did he know the camera is on him? yeah. very much so. he even smiled. with his language, he was trying to make nice. but trashing her country in the morning. i actually watched and saw something else which is that merkel didn t even want to look at him. she was staring into space. and you got a sense that she wanted to pop out of her chair and get out of her chair.