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Countries were not great friends with but share information. and they view that has having more creed eps than a phone call or five calls with a foreign leader or something he saw on fox news. >> thats just it. you hit the keywords there. fox news. thats often -- the president seems to value what he sees on television from a cable news broadcast, particularly his favorite one, more so than, at least as much as what he gets from the classified intelligence reports. he doesnt get the rigorous brie...

>> no, thats exactly right. what you played earlier on the program talking to the coast guard officer about how much trade is going on, this is getting a little surreal. its the same time the last couple of days. hes been breaking down basic institutions of our government. the supreme court. the pentagon, spend sending armed forces to the border, talking about a political opportunity. our intelligence services, this is something we do not see with other presidents. i think we have to begin expec...

War zone as his other predecessors have done. but it was the comments he made about saudi arabia, perhaps tripling down from earlier in the week, siding with saudi arabia over his own intelligence community over the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi. listen to what the president said about that. >> the cia doesnt say they did it. they do point out certain things, and in pointing out those things you can conclude that maybe he did or maybe he didnt. that was another part of the false reporting bec...

Judicial philosophy, and i think thats why we see different judges appointed by democratic and republican presidents. what i would say is this isnt the first president to criticize judicial decisions. i think what makes this different and why roberts felt compelled to speak out and because the presidents criticism of the judiciary has been sustained and aggressive more so than his predecessors. you can only imagine judge roberts, whose obamacare decision was seen by many as a way to keep the cou...

Painting it as starkly political has been sustained and aggressive more so than his predecessors and you can only imagine, judge roberts, whose obamacare decision was seen by many as a way to keep the court out of a highly political issue, had to know, was a savvy player, if hes going to go after the president on the eve of thanksgiving that the president was not only going to respond but that a lot of people were going to see this so he must have felt either compelled or heard a lot of pressure...

Extravagance to why i was the first one who was criticized by all this previous us were never criticised for it this was because i was a political figure and people and trying to make the european parliament more influential more powerful and then you earn also such a tax i didnt invent it i earned it and by the way my predecessor have more people in the stuff than me i would use that when i started in two thousand and twelve are reduced the size of my stop the shows a year never never by the wa...

Still, in stark contrast to his predecessors. president bush paid a surprise visit to u.s. troops in iraq over the thanksgiving holiday in 2003. president obama met with troops, both in 2010 and again in 2014. mr. trumps comparative absence has drawn sharp criticism from some, even sparking speculation that he simply doesnt want to go. defense secretary jim mattis rejected that notion, adding that security is always a concern. the president is the commander in chief and he decides where he needs...

First major accomplishment on the supreme court, very early on in his supreme court tenure, ruled against the president on an immigration issue. you often see this, where these judges rule against them. the president seemed to take it too personally. >> mike: your thoughts? >> i think this president has upset so many norms and expectations that we had for the presidency before he took office, and one of those is in challenging institutions that his predecessors but never have so publicly challen...

Destroy it. we need to find a way to inject greater balance, greater symmetry, reciprocity, and rationality into this. frankly thats going to be a real heavy lift in coming weeks and months. >> are they so key to our plans for the middle east and stability in the region? >> i mean i think theres a lot of magical thinking in the administration on this point. i think the president, he went to saudi arabia and jerusalem, riyadh and jerusalem, chris, first foreign foray. most of his predecessors wen...

Reverseless, shes clearly very effective of this. this is not thing her republican predecessors were good at, getting recalcitrant members to come into the tent with carrots and sticks, incentives and fear. shes good at that. the objections to her are mostly about the other parts of the job, the political parts of the job, the image parts of the job. shes not good at that part. what she is good at is legislating and keeping her caucus together. >> to that point, what shes good at, what shes been...