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Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its thursday, august 2nd. And what a way to start the day. What a way. So, is it the official policy of the preside...

Planes around. >> polands president has said his country would not send planes to ukraine, because it might be seen as interfering in the war. and vladimir putin has signaled that such a move would be seen as direct involvement. meanwhile, the u.s. and nato allies are working quickly to arm ukraine in other ways. "the new york times" reporting more than 17,000 anti-tank weapons have made their way into the country through poland and romania. so far, supply lines have not been interrupted because...

If it is an existential threat for our country, it can be used in accordance with our concept. >> joining me now is brian clause, professor of global politics at university college london. professor, great to have you on. its part of russian doctrine, and we all thought it to mean if the russian homeland was invaded, part is the use of nuclear weapons. now, the perception, how has it changed? if we are talking about an existential threat to vladimir putin, what does he see as an existential thre...

>> as brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. talk about fake news. you talk about deep state conspiracies. you fire prosecutors and you have a -- >> were getting close. with us we have mike barnicle and jonathan lamir and former fbi special agent and contributor clint watts and national political reporter heidi. i say we are getting close and that may sound like an overstatement, but were understating what we are seeing every day. ask someone like ma...

Oligarchic thug-like countries that do not share our values. you see that manifest income ways small and big in the way journalists are being treated in other countries. i represent journalists without borders, freeing journalists imprisoned overseas, they see that pressure is not from from the united states of america. nobody is there. >> you see the impact, donald trump attacks cnn international and then a couple days later saudi arabia attacks cnn int international and you see whats happening...

Reality. he does it to offend two-thirds of americans. these actions offend two-thirds of americans. brian, one of the things you can them your friends in great britain is that two-thirds of americans are deeply offended by this mans actions. there is a reason there is the latest polling record. there is the reason he will have the lowest approval ratings for a second year president. thats the most disturbing thing is donald trump is playing to steve bannons one-third. its a losing proposition, ...

The prime minister said to the white house, its wrong to promote neofascism. thats the state of affairs we are in right now. it is damaging our gravitas and respectability. thankfully, i have lived in london for six years, i am apologizing to people. it is denigrating our country. people want to know, have we lost our minds? if there is no response to this how am i supposed to say i havent? >> ripped. you have the president of the united states defending fascism in charlottesville. now you have ...

Our country like never before. because these massive tax cuts will be rocket fuel -- hmm. little rocketman -- rock fume for the american economy. he is a sick puppy. >> a sick puppy. >> you always hear he projects, like whatever he is, he projects it accuses other people. >> this is in the middle of the crisis were talking about. the president tweeted he spoke with chinas president xi jinping announcing additional quote sanction will be set today. no new sanctions were announced yesterday. brian...

Today. the representation of the united states is donald trump whether we like it or not globally. thats where we need to take stock of how much damage he is dock. in june we saw that 57% loss of confidence from obama to trump in a puig research survey, that was before all these things. >> two-thirds of the country may feel the president is failing them. but republicans and members of the cabinet, you are failing the entire country. brian clause, thank you very much. coming up, we are following ...

57% disapprove of the job hes doing. thats below the all-time lows of barack obama, which he mocked, bill clinton and gerald ford. he mocked barack obama for having a low approval rating and his is just as low. and it didnt take three years to get there. >> no, its not. its lower. >> it took just a few days. >> in 2011, trump tweeted barack obama has a record low 39% gallup approval rating to which twitter user brian clause wrote donald trump has a record low 36% gallup approval rating. why so h...