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Makes up the american military and how special it is. we provide them with values that guide them in their military service in their career. it isnt just a bunch of mercenaries that pick up rifles and go someplace and start shooting people. so when we hear the president make statements like this, and hes made other statements. theres a trend line. you know, during his campaign he said he was going to bomb iraq and take all its oil. he said he was going to kill terrorists families. he talked abou...

Guide them in their military service and their career. it isnt just a bunch of mercenaries that pick up rifles and go someplace start shooting people. when we will hear the president make statements like this and hes made other statements, theres a trend line. during his campaign he said he was going to bomb iraq and take all its oil and he said he was going to kill terrorist families. he talked about dip diagnose bullets in pigs blood which is a false story about general pershing and now he say...

In texas congressman louie gohmert. thank you for coming on the program this morning, sir. what can you tell us about what you are seeing and the way the president is responding. what are your thoughts this morning as this caravan makes its way to the border? >> the president will be in houston for ted cruz today and im honored to be here and be part of that. the president made no bones about it. and actually he can take his lead from the democrats. democrat named woodrow wilson, not one of my f...

Separated from the main rally as well. everyone here hoping that this remains peaceful. thomas. >> gabe, keep us posted and welcome back to you. okay? thank you very much. up next, after the barcelona terrorist attack, president trump told everyone to study general pershing. this is a very interesting thing that the president told us in terms of who to study for military history. so was the president right? critics are saying not so fast. im joined next by alan lick man, presidential historian...

Nights right now on a summer series on nbc, poking fun there. we have jimmy fallon dressing up as george washington and seth meyers as thomas jefferson an there is controversy surrounding the president and confederate war memorials but the president responded by telling people to study general john j. pershing. an american military icon but critibs say hes wrong to recommend people study a specific story and allen lichtman joins me, a professor at american university and the author of the case m...

Of controversy, this as more republican leaders come forward slamming his comments on charlottesville. athena jones is live in bridgewater where the president is this morning. >> reporter: good morning, poppy. in the face of on going criticism over his defense of white supremacy, were seeing a pattern with the president, refusing to back down. instead hes inserting himself deeper into the racially charged debate over con federal memorials and sparking new criticism over his reaction to the horri...

A bit of history that everyone from bullet effect had the national review are things did not actually happen, that the world war won u.s. general, general pershing and the rally and campaign took some islamic terrorists about 50 of them, slaughtered some pigs. he took the pig blood. and they put them on the bullets, killing 49 of the 50 islamic terrorists. as you hear from the tweet, allegedly it went away for 35 years. historians tonight saying that to that is not exactly what happened. preside...

The kind of infantile idea that takes up the space in donald trumps brain where facts are supposed to live. general pershing was fighting against people in the philippines who did not want the united states to rule the philippines, and they were willing to die in that fight against the united states. only the childish mind of donald trump could believe that those fighters who were willing to die for what they believed in could have been stopped by pigs blood. we know donald trump is susceptible ...

President trump facing criticism over his response to the terror attacks in barcelona, first taking a measured tone offering support in his first tweets to the u.s. ally. moments later, bringing up this debunked mythical war crimes story to stop what he calls radical islamic terrorism. lets bring back our panel. molly, to you, this is a story about general pershing who he said -- shall we play this? he tweeted about it yesterday but said this to explain it more during the campaign. >> general pe...

Running around the white house, undercutting the president. you see the president there and he kind of looks like lets just say an aged tommy boy that maybe dad gave the keys to the company to and some crazy things happened. >> i dont want to speak for president lincoln posthumously but i suspect if he heard of an attack in barcelona where now 14 people are killed, he wouldnt have looked up a false story about general pershing putting pigs blood on bullets. >> seems like were in a low point in h...