negotiati montenegro prime minister, this is what our new president did to him. watch. watch trump. what did he do? he literally shoved the prime minister of montenegro, look, watch again, he shoved him out of the way on the main stage at the nato summit. welcome to nato. get out of my way. what s he doing? he grabs him and shoves him behind himself. that was a super weird moment for our new president. what the heck does he care about this guy from montenegro. why does he push him and none of the other guys? what has he got against montenegro degree? and then that summer that same american president randomly volunteers to fox news that montenegro are a nation of aggressive people who are going to start world war iii since they are part of nato now. it was a truly bizarre thing for this president to say. calling montenegro and montenegrans aggressive. it s not part of the moon is made of green cheese foreign
again shoved him out of the way on the main stage at the nato summit. welcome to nato. get out of my way! he grabs him and shoves him behind himself. that was a super weird moment for our new president. what the heck does he care about this guy from montenegro? why does he push him and not any of the other guys? what has he got against montenegro? that summer the same american president volunteers to fox news montenegro is a nation of people that s going to start world war 3. it was a bizarre out of the blue thing for this american president to say. and i mean that in a specific sense. calling montenegro and montenegrans is not part of american foreign policy, the liberal foreign poling si, the moon is made of green cheese foreign policy. he is not reading that in the briefing books no matter who is writing them. he is not hearing that from anybody in the american congress. his advisors are not whispering in his ear about the aggressive
perhaps this is overly optimistic. but what mike just said about green cheese is exactly right. the president has the capacity to dominate our mind space. he dominates the culture in a way that franklin roosevelt couldn t have thought about doing. but i think ultimately that could be his downfall. because the figure he s most like in many ways is joe mccarthy. mccarthy, senator from wisconsin, who led the communist hunts in the early 1950s. roy cohen who was also both mccarthy s lawyer and donald trump s lawyer. sometimes god just gives you these common denominators. he said that he thought mccarthy fell, not least because he demanded too much attention and he wore out his welcome. and i think that s not an impossible outcome here. jon meacham, mike murphy, always good to have you. while you were speaking, mr. meacham, some breaking news coming in. apparently one of the president s attorneys, emmitt flood emmitt flood was
some of this stuff is baked in. in other words, the trump tribe believes what he says or shucks off criticism. and the anti-trump tribe, even if he told the truth, wouldn t like him. we re in these two dueling things where the politics is i m right, you re evil. trump has changed the presidency. shame used to be an effective weapon in politics, particularly for the person in the big job. shame has no effect on him. he also knows he has the biggest microphone in town. if i go out tomorrow and say the moon is made out of green cheese, nobody cares. trump says it today, on this set tomorrow we ll have green cheese experts, the head of nasa and the whole national debate will go, is the moon made of green cheese. he knows that. he can say alien spies under the couch in the white house. the president is not constrained with the rules of how to use the microphone, one of which used to be, and should be, telling the truth. these unsubstantiated claims about a spy. a spy being planted in his
don t know what the truth is. so in as much as the democratic memo and it will provides additional context and details which shows the nunes allegations to be simply flat out wrong, i do think that s important for the american people to see. congressman, just to follow up on that. is there risk, though in playing into the republicans hands on this in terms of just escalating one side releases a memo, the other side releases a memo and it continues to go on from there? well, no, i don t think so. when somebody tells you the moon is made of green cheese, it s probably worth pointing out the wikipedia entry that suggests the moon is not, in fact, made of green cheese. i think that s a service to the american public. now i heard some story yesterday about how maybe devin nunes has more memos coming and we should talk about whether memos that are released unilaterally by one person on one committee in any way, shape, or form constitute congressional oversight but my hope is that t