part of the press pool in the west wing today. president had members of congress around the table. he gave some remarks about the failure of obamacare, about good job numbers, about initiatives they wanted to highlight this week. he actually waved his hand. you were getting escorted out of the room when reporters often shout the questions, we ll play for the good folks the exchange and talk about it with you on the other side. i want to thank everybody very much for being here. let s get to work. we are going to get to work and get it done. thank you all. what advice do you have for jim comey ahead of his testimony. i wish him luck. thank you everybody. i wish him luck. that ended up being the enduring surviving quote of the day and drove part of the news cycle itself. and vivian, another day the white house tried to have something else on the agenda.
because of the fact that integrity and loyalty are different things. and donald trump compromises people s integrity by testing their loyalty in the way that he does. and so this is an administration that when we look at the coverage it s not that he has the wrong advisors though he has some of them are the wrong advisors. this is about the behavior of this man. and the donald trump we are getting as president is precisely the donald trump we saw in the campaign. so you can hire anybody you choose to put in there, but he s going to live tweet the comey hearings. he s going to do what he s going to do. he is going tie tack the mayor of london, go to nato and give a speech saying the germans are bad, very bad, and nothing is going to change that. vivian we are back to the topic of impulse control. tomorrow the president has an event in ohio, classic case of risk versus reward.
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the attacks on the mayor of london. today the canadian foreign minister talking about that the united states can no longer be counted on to fulfill its obligations and that the canadians will need to raise defense spending. but this liberal global order anchored by the united states, it kept the peace. it avoided another catastrophe on the scale of world war ii which killed 80 million people globally before it was over. and the united states has contributed mightily to this rules based order. but no country has benefitted more from it. over these first months of the trump presidency we ve seen america s standing toead the western alliance erode almost completely. now, a future president will have hard work to rebuild this. but as america retreats, the world becomes a more dangerous place. vivian, you were called in as
he wants right now. philip rucker after another busy day thank you for coming on and talking about it. thank you brian. now with us, gop veteran, msnbc political analyst steve schmidt. also a former chief strategist to john mccain s 08 campaign. white house reporter for the associated press who played an interesting role in today s coverage, vivian salaama is back with us and pulitzer prize winning columnist for the washington post, also an msnbc political analysis, your friend eugene robinson. welcome to all. steve you and i share a love of american history. i have to share with the folks that we were talking about today s anniversary. in present hours, right about now, 73 years ago, the sun would be rising on the coast of france. it would still reveal ocean water tinged with the blood of young americans and canadians