pay dividends for the embattled commander in chief? a big question. joining me to discuss associate editor for real clear politics, a.b. stoddard. thanks. kendis. will the president be successful playing the victim card and how does he go about this? well, you know he s a very stable genius and goes on his gut instincts and this is a trump staple. he s told us many times before he doesn t get credit for this. he would be getting better press if that. he s blaming the do-nothing savage democrats and at events with foreign leaders he s come to the microphones and told us fictional tales about them all coming up and woefully lamenting the bad press he gets in the u.s. and they think it s incredible unfair. this is something that works with his supporters. they want to believe he s under siege from the deep state and i believe it will raise a lot of
tan face, tall guy, pretty much every tall, tan, blond haired man was getting responsibilitied as being gavin smith. reporter: weeks, months passed. no sign of gavin. there was no answers. lisa was forced to reveal something publicly. something painful. and maybe crucial. coming up, what had happened to gavin smith? it didn t make sense to me. we said, i think this is a suicide. then we go, i this i this is a murder. our gut instincts were going different ways. reporter: you wondered if she had something to do with this in. it crossed our minds all the time. somehow it kept playing back, why won t you search? when dateline continues.
john o brien and tyla bay heard about his addiction, they had a raft of answers. we would have moments in the car where we looked at each other and said, i think this is a suicide and then an hour later, we d interview somebody and something would happen and we d go i think this was a murder and our feelings and our gut instincts were going different ways very early on very fast. reporter: that s got to be soar unusual. it was very confusing. reporter: confusing to lisa, too. because here was another secret. the smiths were under water on their mortgage on the verge of losing their home. we were in a horrible position financially. reporter: lisa discovered before he disappeared, gavin had been taking money from his retirement account and recklessly blowing through his
nra? your gut instincts were right. but it s not the first conversation they had. the president has been talking to wayne lapierre a few weeks now and came convinced of the talking points you take a step hecks and it becomes this slippery slope and you end up resulting in policies where you re taking guns away from the people which the president is afraid to do because of the political backlash there. it s been clear the president early on was open to background checks and now is not. and that s because of the success the nra has had in lobbying him. but it s not just the nra. there are also nra-aligned members of the administration who have had the president s ear who have been making this case, making the political case to the president against any of the new gun restrictions. guys, around this table, i have to say when trump first said after the shootings, background checks, we re going to do background checks this time.
could pbe affected. good tuesday morning, everybody, i m yasmin vassoughiaan alongside ayman mohyeldin. the associated press writing the is. the president has w inflamed racial tensions betting such divisions will help ease his path to victory in 2020 and he replaced gut instincts for the silver analysis for professio l professionals on matters of war and atpeace. and unconstrained trump 15 mons from the election, few have stepped up to challenge a president emboldened by the conclusion of the russia probe and divided democratic congress. themo temptations for trump are only set to increase this week before two nights of democratic