Coming of god, saying he thought about awarding himself the medal of honor. this is unhinged behavior. you know, tom friedman was on anderson cooper last night and said if this was the president of any company, the board of directors would have him removed. this is not tightly wrapped behavior. it s troubling behavior. it seems to indicate that he is untethering with reality more and more. you don t think to him, this is just a big show? the sketch where he s in control but playing the old d doddy dude in reality. he comes off as erratic and the impact is essentially the same. i agree with you. me, not alisyn. i always agree with both of you. i m going to add the two of you together. way to thread the needle. remember the presidency does strange things to people with
Struggled and failed to identify the fact that this country, humanitarian disaster, morphing terrorists and refugees, still is a vital american national interest. as a consequence, our mission there is confused and in my judgment purposeless. so if the u.s. were to pull out, where does that leave the u.s.? who will protect any u.s. interests, particularly in that region? especially since there are allies who have been counting on the u.s. and its positioning there? we have 30,000 american forces and an enormous amount of offshore bpsing power. both naval assets and air power. i don t believe that withdrawal of 2,200 forces from a country that does not represent a vital american national interest is largely going to affect our credibility. look, mr. trump should be blamed for untethering the united
Information and information sources that the american people have been relying on for some time, and jim, he is doing this as he is also making things up. it is not only the claim he made about nbc which is obviously false but remember a couple of days ago he was saying at the white house to a group of evangelicals there would be violence in the midterm elections on the part of democrats. when i asked the president about it yesterday for explanation about that, he didn t have one. he did not explain what he was talking about. so this is part of that comment that you played earlier where the president was telling veterans don t believe what you re seeing or reading, believe me. the president would like to replace news outlets all over the country with one news outlet, that s his twitter feed, but obviously that s not going to happen. jim, it seems this untethering from reality we re seeing from the president now is going to continue, and there s a lot of angst behind it as you were sayi
Asked about those anti-muslim videos the president pushed to his followers originally from an extremist group. it was pointed out to her it wasn t clear if the videos were real. here is her response. whether it s a real video, the threat is real and that is what the president is talking about. whether or not it s a real video, the threat is real. that s an official statement from the white house suggesting that it doesn t matter if the content the president shares is real, because the point he was trying to make is real. in his view. as an official white house statement, it s frankly an official untethering from reality. my panel is here with me. let s get right to it. mary katherine ham, your view, i mean, the president could have just stuck with his tax message and had a pretty good day, but he constantly does this on twitter. the cfpb victory as well. he could have had two things in his corner and he can deliver a message on tax reform that might actually convince some people.
Have and we better start taxing wealth. right. higher than work. and so there are people speaking out and my view in our society is when the elites divide, i believe in social movements. we need a social movement for shared prosperity. when the elites divide and have a countervailing force to the ugliness of the sam zells, wilbur rosses, you could see a more enlightened politics. franklin delano roosevelt was not exactly from the not at all. no, he wasn t. a huge part of that had to do right. a huge part of that had to do with grassroots movements at the time. yes. i think there is something about there is something about this kind of untethering that s happening. the entire structure of american society is getting so attenuated that you can live in finer and finer little slices of it. that s what was striking about the tim armstrong comment. he wasn t trying to be a jerk.