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Very bright line between the president of the united states and getting involved in partisan matters especially when it pertains to our national security. every president of the united states is a political animal. thats why he has been able to ascends to the highest office of the land. all of his predecessors have been able to shed that partisan coat when they went to settings like this. donald trump has never been able to do that. thats why its not surprising. his first full day in office he t...

America shouldnt be doing the fighting for every nation on earth. if they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price, and sometimes thats also a monetary price, so were not the suckers of the world. under my administration, were winning now. were not playing to lose slowly like theyve been doing for 19 years. >> welcome back to "hardball." in defending his decision to pull american troops from syria, president trump took a shot at his predecessors yesterday, telling u.s. troops in...

America shouldnt be doing the fighting for every nation on earth. if they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price, and sometimes thats also a monetary price, so were not the suckers of the world. under my administration, were winning now. were not playing to lose slowly like theyve been doing for 19 years. >> welcome back to "hardball." in defending his decision to pull american troops from syria, president trump took a shot at his predecessors yesterday, telling u.s. troops in...

Bush, 41% for clinton. both jfk and eisenhower has approval ratings of over 70%. note that obama and reagan and clinton for near lows after the midterms but all went on to easily win re-election. but none has approval ratings as low as trump. however, trump is at the top of the pack when it comes to the economy. 3.7 unemployment rate. that is well below any of his predecesso predecessors. george w. bush 6%, clinton 5.5%, and reagan at 10.8%. now, trump inherited an economy that was growing and k...

>> julie: he got so much criticism for not going over there. i understand. he should visit the troops, especially those who are separated from their families during the holidays. then he goes over, and now you have an issue with what he says. you cant really have it both ways. he was criticized prematurely for not going, then he goes, and you have people like johnny, criticizing him for signing the maga hats. he cant win max, anywhere. >> james: you see the whole speech, you read the text, there...

That he had read it. only later to have cable news explain to him just the blistering rhetorical assault that secretary maltess had set at his feet. i think it underscores that the two dont see eye to eye. president trump cant even understand that world view. my concern is those people who would be vying for this job are going to be people who see the world as president trump does. not as secretary mattis does. not as our -- not as president trumps predecessors have. as every major american fore...

President believes democrats running the house for the next two years will provide him with foils that he can position himself against heading into 2020. this is, of course, how its worked for a few recent predecessors, bill clinton playing off newt gingrich in the republican congress to bounce back from the midterm drumming of 94 and win reelection in 96, and barack obama doing the same with the tea party congress after 2010 to win in 2012. whether trump can replicate with nancy pelosi and the ...

This in the category of things that over the longer course of history should be shocking but with this president are not surprising. to talk about what should be shocking, there used to be this very bright line between the president of the united states and getting involved in partisan matters especially when it pertains to our national security. every president of the united states is a political animal. thats why he has been able to ascends to the highest office of the land. all of his predece...

2020. this is, of course, how its worked for a few recent predecessors, bill clinton playing off newt gingrich in the republican congress to bounce back from the midterm drumming of 94 and win reelection in 96, and barack obama doing the same with the tea party congress after 2010 to win in 2012. whether trump can replicate with nancy pelosi and the democratic congress, we will soon find out. it is clear, by now, that to win reelection trump will need some kind of a foil. and this is because of ...

Back now to our breaking news, president trump and the first lady making a surprise trip to iraq to visit troops. the trip comes as president trump has been criticized for not visiting a war zone like his predecessors had by this point in their presidencies. here to discuss, margaret taleb and elise labott. elise, the president has it and some heat because of the decision to pull troops out of syria, not just from democrats but from republicans as well. today he broke a little bit of news becaus...