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Said what they said across the board, both conservative commentators and members of congress, fox news. the one person who has been consistent is donald trump. he told wolfe blitzer more than ten years augnot badng to try te out the north korea situation by sitting down with him. the other thing to maxs point theres a third way. of course there is. doing what donald tr did going so overboard and lavishing praise is not necessarily the way to go wen youre the president of the united states. that ...

White house special counsel for president clinton, who is the author of the unmaking of the president 2016, also with me, cnn political commentators angela rye and alice stewart. goevenineveryone. >> hi, don. >> ms. rye, it has never been okay to do something to someone against their will, and thats a fact. but what did bill -- what do you think of his comments? >> i think he was stumbling. don, i think the reality of it is theules have changed, and that is a good thing. i think it would have be...

>> lets inject historical context. it is true that republicans said what they said across the board, both conservative commentators and members of congress, fox news. the one person who has been consistent is donald trump. he told wolf blitzer ten years ago, more than ten years ago he thought it is not a bad thing to try to figure out the north korea situation by sitting down with him. theres a third way. of course there is a third way. doing what donald trump did going so overboard and lavishin...

Isnt it stockholm syndrome, that you dont know youre being hypocritical or youre on the winning team and it feels so good to be on the winning team. >> they say in sports, you really vote for laundry. youre rooting for the jersey. the content here is less important than its our guy doing it. >> its not just fox that has just done this shape shifting and completely changed their position. msnbc commentators have had examples of this. so here is rachel maddow meeting with fidel castro and how she ...

Following sexual harassment allegations. >> i think the norms have really changed in terms of what you can do to somebody against their will, how much you can crowd their space, make them miserable at work, where you dont have to physically assault somebody to make them, you know, uncomfortable at work or at home or in their other -- just walking around. that i think is good. >> so lets bring in new andy davis, a former white house special counsel for president clinton who is the author of -- an...

Assault charges after his gun accidentally went out. it fill out of his waist band when he did a back flip. you see him searching for it. it went off, hitting one pepper in the leg. >> oh, my gosh, that should have been so much worse. meanwhile, president trump is getting plenty of praise in conservative media for meeting with kim jong-un. what did the same commentators say when president obama suggested doing it. we dig up the old video out of a tape library to reveal the 180-degree turn on bot...

Or do you see a president using gangsta speak and trash talk telling north korea theyre about to get both barrels? >> i definitely see it differently. lets take a step back if you want to take a step back. >> lets take a lot of steps back. lets go all wait bathe way bac. >> you dont have to go all the way back, you can go just a week. canada is our enemy. canada is terrible and north korea has wonderful leadership. were in this whole completely topsy-turvy world where we look at enemies as our f...

Capable of reaching their countries and possibly our coast. so president trump was in a completely different situation than any other president in history dealing with this issue. >> van, do you see it that way, or do you see a president using gangsta speak and trash talk telling north korea theyre about to get both barrels? >> i definitely see it differently. lets take a step back if you want to take a step back. >> lets take a lot of steps back. lets go all the way back. >> you dont have to go...

I think its fair -- >> sure and there was a reason i think for those fox commentators to be sceptical when president obama suggested it. it was eyebrowing raising. >> sceptical is what were supposed to be as journalists of both sides. >> i thought it was telling that even before the summit started, commentators on fox were saying that trump wasnt going to get any credit and the media was out to get him and the media was un-american wanting this to fail. the bar was even being set before the summ...

Like north korea? obama said, id meet with him. >> senator obama made his intentions crystal clear on the campaign trail. >> i will meet, not just with our friends but with our enemies. >> president trump likes talking to dictators. >> he would meet with some of these mad men without any preconditions. >> im going to reach out to these crazy people around the world and try to get things done. >> obama is bowing and scraping before dictators. >> joining us now to talk about all of this, we have b...