that it could step all over the economy that he usually crows about. i think he is someone who is doing a lavish amount of chest thumping in a way that could do damage to the presidency. do you guys ever watch veep ? these silly slogans and they end up helping the candidate. i mean, if you really think about it, if you how you know, you talked about the usa thing, of course people are going to scream, usa or america, they, you know it s just that simple, i think. let me be clear. let me you re from the new york times, you got it wrong. let me be smarter than the times. it s the failing new york times. this is going to sound facetious, not meant to be so. in the world i lived in, foreign policy, there s a three-letter word, ego. in every single circumstance, north korea, china, russia, iran, nato, nafta, every single circumstance t said i m the stable genius, i m going to do something different
of chest thumping from president trump. that s to be expected. this has been an extraordinarily positive couple of days for him. the travel ban was upheld yesterday, and then today he has this tremendous gift in the vacancy on the court that he s going to be able to fill. and he described it as an opportunity for him. but he also tried to use it as a rallying cry for republican voters in the midterm elections. he said that the vacancy of kennedy on the court makes the supreme court and the battle for control of the senate the most important issue of our time. he went on a tear about heidi heitkamp who at one point was his favorite democrat in the senate. he brought her on the road last time he was in north dakota. but today he went after her on issue after issue after issue and warned his base voters that if yes let democrats take control of the senate, and if they have a say in who replaces
gay rights. and that vote now will go a step to the right. and so the big barrier to making a big leap to the right in american constitutional law and other issues is now going to be gone. and you re going to get somebody who s much more like a neil gorsuch who we got this term. so it s a pivot point, and it s one that we won t get to come back through again for at least another quarter century, given how long people stay on the court. phil rucker, the president s remarks were closely watched tonight in fargo. tell us about the donald trump you saw on display and that part we just aired about how kennedy did this now because of his confidence in donald trump to do the right thing. well, brian, there was a lot of chest thumping from president trump. that s to be expected. this has been an extraordinarily positive couple of days for him. the travel ban decision, the court upholding his travel ban on some majority muslim
guy who has spent the last decade with donald trump. he wants to make the appearance that he is a tough guy who wants to go on with business as usual. two people close to him this weekend said to me there s a sort of vacillation going on in his psyche right now between his usual chest thumping, i did nothing wrong, i m the collateral damage here and also understanding the gravity of the situation, not only for him but the impact that it could have on his family as well. there s an interesting psychological play that s going on, a duality. the actor on saturday night live played him in a sad way. do you think he s realizing that everything he owns, his cell phone, his laptop, his apartment, his hotel room, all of that is potentially in the matter of a couple weeks in the hand of the special counsel, robert mueller or the federal
i point out that when the president called for strikes one year ago, he roundly received support and praise from the international community. could you argue i was part of the voice goading the president into war? probably. but i m illustrating this as the broader point of how you make those calculations. it s a reality that that happened. i don t think there is inherent bias in stating that. howie: i can see where everybody is positive just briefly, the new york times is laying out the dilemma saying the contrast between his man told chest thumping, and his convictions specially after 2001, american involvement in the middle east has cost us a lot in blood and treasure. this is part of his platform. i am going to disentangle us