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Who kind of prides himself on throwing away all the accomplishments of his predecessors and in so doing is essentially saying we dont care about that. on the other hand, its not as if hes kind of become friends with the chinese. you have to recall his entire east asia strategy the endopacific strategy is to encircle china and contain china, sort of a 1950s approach to the soviet union. so on the one hand, he said i dont care about human rights. on the other hand, he said i dont care about engagi...

Books over time. and hopefully well make progress on this. at the same time well hopefully get control of our own southern border. were moving in that direction effectively thanks to the presidents dealings with mexico and central america in ways none of his predecessors of either party would do and we have to keep working in that direction >> i appreciate your time as walls. >> good to be with you. >> president trump excuse or pushing a conspiracy theory on twitter. >> and that was a retweet th...

Donald trump, and hes trying to deflect from this crisis by now spreading conspiracy theories about this apparent suicide. which, as i note, many believe donald trumps d.o.j. might have done more to help prevent. now, on thi newscast tonight, were not going to show the tweets about those unfounded conspiracies. im not going to summarize them. im not even going to mention donald trumps targets because thats precisely the goal of this kind of propaganda, to get the lies and innuendo somehow in the...

Empathetic. some of his more immediate predecessors, arguably, did a much better job in this arena. president george w. bush going to ground zero and supporting the emergency workers there, when you look at obama singing amazing grace after the charleston shooting. these are moments that stay in peoples minds. i think they comforted the nation. so perhaps trump succeeded in comforting this individual family. but i think that theres been a lot of criticism across the nation, he hasnt made the nat...

Gags, but they will interview poem oond determine the circumstances. >> and in the meantime, trump hasnt yet addressed epsteins death directly, but hes been retweeting these conspiracy theorys, baseless, while hes there on vacation in new jersey. >> one retweet last night where the president was retweeting a supporter of his. thats important to know b about the presidents thinking. he tends the to like to retweet his own supporters, but this is behavior that is so starkly different than other pr...

Trump, theyre not able to resume negotiations. if you remember at the inter-korean border, at the dmz, trump and kim agreed to resume these working level negotiations. this is back in june. but they still have not started yet. and so what were seeing, what we have consistently seen actually even since the singapore summit last year, especially ahead of the hanoi summit this year, the north has always tried to bypass the bureaucracy the working level and go straight to president trump and try to ...

Joining me now is a political anchor for spectrum news to talk more about all of this. good morning to you, errol. >> good morning, martin. >> how much of a problem is this for the administration, for president trump? >> well, its a big problem. its a big problem for the white house and, frankly, a big problem for the united states. the president appears to have been outmaneuvered by the north korean dictator into saying almost nothing while the tests proceed, and keep in mind, martin, even if i...

Theres people who are careerists, have their own agenda. thats what this administration essentially does. >> so what is the state, richard, of our intelligence agencies? pompeo has proved himself to be a loyalist to donald trump, christopher wray perhaps not as much. speaking truth when he comes before congress, for example. is donald trump getting what he wants out of the intelligence agency? >> theyre doing their job but he doesnt take the systemic briefings that his predecessors always did. i...

Trumps failure to do much more than tweet than over the weekend of the attack followed by his listless and unconvincing august 5th remarks about hate in a speech most notable for its implicit defense of guns stands in stark contrast to other presidents in other moments of crisis. from bill clinton after oklahoma city to george w. bush after 9/11, to barack obama after the church shooting in charleston, south carolina, in 2015, trumps recent predecessors have met the moment in ways he seems unabl...

Came after president obama. president george w. bush also was really noteworthy when you were in the bush white house for the way he embraced the muslim community after 9/11 for his acumenicism, his understanding of the immigrant border situation coming from texas as he did. talk about the comparison between president trump and his predecessors. >> president trump should be careful what he encourages or invites, because by acting that way about president obamas comments, hes almost inviting pres...