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And if you look at the honest david ignacious if you look at the honest and trustworthy numbers of donald trump, they were horrific. the only person in american politics that had worst, honest and trustworthy numbers was hillary clinton. you can talk about approval ratings. his approval ratings were hor risk. so were hillary clintons. we still, were sort of in a fog still trying to figure out exactly why donald trump won and its hard to answer that question, because the person he ran against had...

Wasnt me, it was your job to get this done. >> david ignacious, we hear word the iran deal the president may scrap the iran deal, even when hess secretary of defense testifies before congress that wouldnt be in the best interest of the united states. so how do any of these cabinet members operate when things move the way they move? as erratically as they move? how do foreign leaders plan moving forward? >> well, i think people overseas have increasingly more difficulty understanding what the rea...

The white house pool press list that they had dismissed the media for the evening, and then they gathered everybody back up and said no, actually come in and cover this. and then the president actually spoke directly to the press. he said that this -- these were comments directed at the media, not at the military. im just reporting exactly how this went down. >> yeah. david, obviously time is a flat circle in the trump administration. it never goes anywhere. theyre always two weeks away from ann...

And i had my head up. i said its amazing what capitalism will do. and as i turned, we were coincidentally about this far apart looking at each other and i said and i wasnt being a wise guys, i said, mr. president, im look income your eyes and you have no soul. and he looked back at me, he said, we understand one another. its important to understand, not to threaten, to understand the other, where the other person is coming from. >> wow. >> well, so, david ignacious, we know who lavrov is channel...

On the issue, why have a secretary of state? it seems like hes undercut tillerson almost go down the ledger of the issue, whether it be north korea, iran, of all of the reporting we have is that he undercuts him and he resents him when tillerson prevails. such as in the instance of the increase in troops in afghanistan. the reporting is that trump resented that. >> we also have david ignacious with us in washington. we will begin this morning with something the president said at the white house,...

This doesnt make sense. i think of all the things i miss about him not being with us its that unconventional counsel, this is a moment we need clear voices to say, wait a minute, look at this think of what you are doing. nobody needs that more than this president. i wish i could say listen to dr. brzezinski, im not sure he listens to anybody. >> you know, you are right. you also know its interesting later in life, he had been a hawk, david, his entire life. he had been seen as a hawk his entire ...

Well see where this goes. >> mark, i was just going to say, the speech, minus the bomb bast could have been written by secretary mattis, could have been written by general mcmaster, could have been written by ambassador nikki haley. there wasnt the ban none-esque isolation here. there wasnt the tip of the united states, a tip of the hat to the international community and i would just, i dont know, it seems like a lot of headlines at least online were written before they actually heard this speec...

Our allies every day, i better stop insulting everybody every day, diplomacy may be setting in a little bit. again, david said it was a conventional speech, but there was still the trump bomb bast. that said, this was a president eight months in has seen that you have to patch together alliances if you want to get anything done across the globe, even if are you the united states of marc. >> we will talk about this more, still ahead on "morning joe" andrea mitchell joins the table. plus three for...

Socialism has been implemented well. nobody clapped in the chamber. he just sat and waited it out. im just saying there is donald trumps -- i think it would be a mistake to think this only played 31, 32, 33%. i think a lot of americans probably agreed with that speech yesterday. >> well find out. but i dont know, a lot of americans, i dont know whether theyre going to agree, were going to destroy you, then after we destroy you, venezuela, watch out, cube barks i dont like you either. we can only...

America to be strong around the world and stand up when american interests are threatened, would like to work with international organizations and doesnt think america should bear all the burden. on forth korea, the long-term goals are to get rid of the weapons, in the short term, there are two other goals, one is to make this not u.s. versus north korea and make it more multilateral. he encouraged the community to join the united states and solve it and deter an initial attack. i think some of ...