Would lead by example. 25 years on, and donald trump is in the white house, so what kind of example is america setting now . My guest isjoe lieberman, former senator, al gores Vice President ial running mate in 2000. And recently touted as contender for fbi director under the current president. Is donald trump fundamentally changing americas global role . Joe lieberman, welcome. Stephen, good to be with you. Lets begin well, we have to begin, with an assessment of donald trump. Six months in the white house. Are you alarmed or reassured by what you have seen . Iam uncertain. 0bviously President Trump ran a campaign unlike any we have ever seen in america. As a former officeholder, during the year i would run into other officeholders or current elected officials, and we would go through the latest thing that candidate trump had said, which he would have agreed would have ended our campaign. He kept going. Part of it was that the public wanted a change, wanted an outsider. Because he was
Would lead by example. 25 years on, and donald trump is in the white house, so what kind of example is america setting now . My guest isjoe lieberman, former senator, al gores Vice President ial running mate in 2000. And recently touted as contender for fbi director under the current president. Is donald trump fundamentally changing americas global role . Joe lieberman, welcome. Stephen, good to be with you. Lets begin well, we have to begin, with an assessment of donald trump. Six months in the white house. Are you alarmed or reassured by what you have seen . Iam uncertain. 0bviously President Trump ran a campaign unlike any we have ever seen in america. As a former officeholder, during the year i would run into other officeholders or current elected officials, and we would go through the latest thing that candidate trump had said, which he would have agreed would have ended our campaign. He kept going. Part of it was that the public wanted a change, wanted an outsider. Because he was
President bush declared a New World Order which america would lead by example. 25 years on, and donald trump is in the white house, so what kind of example is america setting now . My guest isjoe lieberman, former senator, al gores Vice President ial running mate in 2000. And recently touted as contender for fbi director under the current president. Is donald trump fundamentally changing americas global role . Joe lieberman. Welcome. Stephen, good to be with you. Lets begin maybe have to begin, with an assessment of donald trump. Six months in the white house. Are you alarmed or reassured by what you have seen . Iam uncertain. 0bviously President Trump ran a campaign unlike any we have ever seen in america. As a former officeholder, during the year i would run into other officeholders or current elected officials, and we would go through the latest thing that candidate trump had said, which he would have agreed would have ended our campaign. He kept going. Part of it was that the publi
president, we don t like this guy and he has got to go. i can t imagine the secretary of state not understanding what the president is trying to tell him. sure, but wouldn t you be more surprised if the british ambassador had sent cables back home, back to the foreign office in the u.k. that said that president trump ran a supremely competent administration and a very confident individual and imper viehous to criticism, wouldn t that be more shocking in a way? absolutely. i saw cables coming like this from american diplomats overseas. this story is more interesting in the u.k. than the u.s. diplomats do this all of the time. the story out of the u.k. is somebody so mad with the ambassador they want to take him out. that is the interesting part. phil mudd, thank you. folksy and full of one-liners, one of the most memorable presidential candidates ever, coming up next. the water. the exercise. the fiber.
the united states even though they had weapons of mass destruction we were worried about, and we feared they might have nuclear weapons. we know the north koreans have nuclear weapons and they re aimed at us and our allies. and taking the risk of a preventive war ensures we have those casualties rather than operating from confidence that we can deter them. and never mind a point you also make in your piece that that president trump ran a very clear campaign in his presidential race against what the president then president george w. bush did in iraq against preemptive war because of the mistakes. so the question is whether he would, as you know the in your piece, tragically repeat that. i want to ask about general mattis. so you talk about what you re hearing the rhetoric from the white house and from the trump