ourselves where we are today because this man like joe said has no regard for history, has no regard for the law, doesn t care to understand any principle or any of america s values. he just goes off with whatever comes off the top of his head. absolutely. i talked to a washington, d.c. native last night watching donald trump speaking and his comment to me was we seriously out of all the people that ever thought about running for president of the united states, we elected the man least qualified and most ignorant of how government runs. it s amazing. it really is quite remarkable who the american people voted for in 2016. of course he lost to popular vote by almost 3 million votes and never get elected to anything again. still remarkable he was elected. but, you know, john harwood, there is the fact that the
away with it. well he s not getting away with it. look at his approval rating. he s the most unpopular president that we ve had in his first term. they are, got hammered in the election. he s going to be a very weak nominee in 2020, if, in fact, he runs. i suspect he ll end up not running. robert mueller is preparing to swing a very large sledge hammer at the trump white house and donald trump knows it. that s why he s so antsy. so i don t think he s getting away with things. i do think it is clear as you guys were saying that donald trump is somebody who embodies what is the opposite of public service. he is in the business of self-service, and i also think just on this e-mail situation with ivanka, it is plain that that was an entirely, almost entirely disingenuous scandal
her house. we re attributing that the critique of hillary clinton was principled and not politically motivated. let s assume that s true. what we see here with ivanka trump and what we see with donald trump more generally is that they don t care about the rules. they only care about themselves. they don t play by the rules. they play by their own rules. it s almost as if we have we ve elected a bunch of bureaucrats to do whatever they want to do. they don t under the system. that s a generous read. they downed but they don t care. here s the deal. we ve said time and again, eddie, that so much of what donald trump does is just out of ignorance. he s never read history. he s never understood history. he s never cared to understand history. he still doesn t care to
. two days ago president trump tweeted that the united states is quote ill prepared for this invasion of migrants coming from south america. now just as the first caravans have begun to arrive, some of the 5800 active duty troops president trump ordered there are set to come home. joining us now retired army colonel and former chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell, lawrence wilkerson, a professor of government and public policy at the college of william & mary. colonel, good morning. thank you for being with us. you and two colleagues have a new piece out in the new york times trump s border stunt is a prosunday betrayal of our military. you write mr. trump s announcement and the deployment that followed were probably perfectly legal. but we are a bipartisan threesome with decades of experience in and with the pentagon and to us this act creates a dangerous precedent.
him. and get this, the republican party, the grand old party, their official twitter feed lying about this american hero. gene robinson, what s happened to the republican party that they feel they feel they have license to lie about and slander an american hero, a navy s.e.a.l. who killed osama bin laden? you know, you would have to call it the party sold its soul. how many times, those and how low does it go, gene? how low does it go? i don t know. my column today, you know,ed ehe adrianza advises republicans to flee the sinking ship. donald trump s whole act has jumped ashore and getting