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lmm. remember, arsenio used to go, things that make you go hmm. what could possibly be the difference between then and now? oh, right. in 2014, barack obama was the president, and donald trump was totally opposed to the idea of defending saudi arabia. now, trump is doing exactly what he said then this country shouldn't do. part of, you know, let's call it what it is now. this president's obsession with his predecessor, the former president barack obama i'm talking about. on his way to his campaign rally just tonight, he didn't address a question from cnn's boris sanchez about president obama's book deal. >> barack obama's book deal, sir. president trump, barack obama's book deal, sir, why is it problematic? >> i'll see you on the plane. >> but he sure had a lot to say
that he believes iran is responsible for the weekend attack on oil facilities in saudi arabia, but he is dialing back his claim the u.s. is locked and loaded. let's discuss now with john kasich, the former republican governor of ohio. hello, sir. good to see you. i first want to play something the president said just moments ago at a rally in new mexico. here it is. >> america is respected again like it hasn't been for a long time. and i can tell you because i meet so many of the leaders and their presidents and their kings and their queens and their prime ministers and their everything, dictators every once in a while. every once in a while, you get a rogue dictator. >> okay. so it's interesting that -- i wonder what's going on because he's putting kings and queens and prime ministers and dictators all together as if they're equal. are dictators just fine if they don't go rogue?
be taken off. so if the sanctions -- that's a condition. so, you know, that's why the press misreported it. >> there is no -- hear my voice. there is no misreporting at all. the president now claiming he doesn't want to meet with iran with no preconditions when that is exactly what he said that he'd do and exactly what members of his administration said he'd do over and over again. they've been saying it for more than a year. >> i do believe that they will probably end up wanting to meet, and i'm ready to meet anytime they want to. no preconditions, no. they want to meet, i'll meet. anytime they want. anytime they want. it's good for the country, good for them, good for us, and good for the world. no preconditions. if they want to meet, i'll meet. you want to talk good, otherwise you can have a bad economy. >> no preconditions? >> not as far as i'm concerned. no preconditions.
we're dealing with saudi arabia. we're dealing with the crown prince and so many other of your neighbors, and we're all talking about it together. we'll see what happens. >> why the shift in tone? >> that's a great question. i think which is probably better left to psychologists. i mean trump does this all the time, don. you know that. he just veers between one extreme to another. he's bellicose one day, pacifistic the next. it doesn't make any sense. and as president, you want to be able to send a consistent message -- this is what we expect from our allies. this is the kind of behavior that will lead us to go to war with our enemies. and right now, trump is so inconsistent and incoherent, nobody can figure the guy out. that makes for a very dangerous situation in a very volatile region of the world. >> well, in that same tweet, he also says -- i'm going to quote here. he says waiting to hear from the kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack and under what terms we would proceed. so he's leaving it to the saudis
the leeway to talk and have conversations if we're going to come together instead of pushing each other apart. >> yes. yes. >> as i always say, be more curious about why this person did it than judgmental. >> amen, amen, i say. it's part of a culture of decency. i know people will say, no, it isn't. he was being indecent. no. but it gives people the chance to have this conversation. >> he was being offensive. those words were offensive. >> there was no question he was being offensive, and i think he was probably trying to be offensive. but the point is now we get to talk about it. we get to test what's okay and what isn't. >> i got to cancel -- >> you know it's out in the open. >> i got to cancel you right now before i'm canceled. >> it's okay. sometimes people deserve it. i'm one of them. >> good to see you and, oh, and happy birthday to mom. >> oh, thank you, my brother. >> happy birthday, mrs. cuomo. >> 52 years old. looking great. >> i thought she was like 51. anyways -- >> well done. >> i'll see you later. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. and the president who just last
realize that just sitting around like frat guys and saying racist things on a podcast no longer is -- was never funny, and no longer applies to the world right now. >> agreed. andrew yang, running for president obviously -- >> but i agree with andrew yang as well, who says america is about redemption. >> he said he wanted to give him a second chance to show we can forgive people. we're unduly punitive and vindictive about people making statements we find offensive. and he thought it was in a little bit of a gray area. >> that he was a comedian that was learning rather than someone who was bigoted. and if you listened to -- but if you do, and i went back and i listened to some of his routines, and i actually do agree with that. i didn't think he was bigoted. i just think he was naive. >> no, right. his shtick is not being a bigot. >> on purpose. >> right. that's not his act is what i'm saying. they would have never hired him. >> it's not on purpose, but because of perhaps his background and what people think is funny, and maybe the people who listen to him and his clientele or listeners, because
obama netflix? it's not hard to figure out what this is all about. donald trump is the first reality tv president. he made his name on the national stage as a caricature of a billionaire businessman on "the apprentice." a caricature of a billionaire businessman on "the apprentice." caricature. we know he spends much of his day in so-called executive time watching cable tv, cable news and tweeting about it. so if there's anything that's going to get under this president's skin, it is the former president, barack obama, and his netflix deal. and speaking of deals, the man who claims that he wrote "the art of the deal" even though we know he used a ghostwriter, is not going to be happy about barack obama and michelle obama's book deals netting them a combined advance of well over
to hold on to the ability to offend and be offended. >> mm-hmm. >> you can't be protected in this life from what people think about you or what they want to say about you, funny or not. >> right. >> so, you know, i take a shot at you, and people laugh. that happens a lot in bullying situations too. doesn't make it okay. >> bullies aren't comedians. >> i say let the market and let the people decide. >> i think we're both in the same place on this because if you don't like it, don't watch snl, right? i don't know if he should be -- listen, nbc made the decision. personally, i think that there is a bigger lesson in it for him to stay in the spotlight of an snl and to try to deal with what he said and for him to realize that just sitting around like frat guys and saying racist things on a podcast no longer is -- was never funny, and no longer applies to the world right now. >> agreed. andrew yang, running for president obviously --
>> president obama gave me a beautiful birthday present when he gave me 138 judges that weren't approved, and frankly how do you consider that being a great president when you hand to the opposition 138 slots of federal judges, including appellate court judges and one supreme court judge? >> yep. actually tried to blame his predecessor for leaving vacancies on the bench when, let's remember, it was mitch mcconnell who refused even to consider president barack obama's supreme court nomination of merrick garland, insisting on waiting until after the election. let's remember donald trump launched his political career with years of repeated racist birther attacks on president obama. and let's remember, because president trump probably hasn't forgotten, this moment, at the 2011 white house correspondents' dinner. >> no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth
night tweeted out what sounded like an ominous warning about being locked and loaded -- that was a quote -- locked and loaded, just waiting to hear from saudi arabia about who they believe was behind saturday's drone attacks on saudi oil fields. well, he sounded pretty different today. watch this. >> can we clarify, mr. president? so you said you think iran is responsible for the attack. do you think -- >> i didn't say that. why do you say that? i said we think we know who it was, but i didn't say anybody. but certainly it would look most like it was iran, but i did not say it the way you said. you're going to find out in great detail in the very near future. we have the exact locations of just about everything. you're going to find out at the right time, but it's too early to tell you that now. >> too early to tell you that now? sure changed his tune there. then there's what the president said about the idea of meeting with iran without preconditions. >> any chance you'll meet with the iranians without preconditions? >> well, you know, there were always conditions because the conditions, if you look at it, the sanctions are not going to