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New sheriff in town. but it also must be pointed out the break hes done from his predecessors on other things. like he did not shine the presidential spotlight on human rights abuses. yesterday he met with the philippine president, duterte, who of course is overseeing a bloody drug war that features extrajudicial killings. previous presidents may have used that moment to publicly call that out. this president didnt. and even behind the scenes theres conflicting messages as to what happened. the ...

Out. other than the moment where the president singled out three patriots, part of the national security apparatus, who kept our nation safe for years in siding with vladimir putin on foreign soil, has the trip largely been a success? >> reporter: i blame the 3000% humidity i think that caused that problem. the white house is happy with the trip. look, the president leaves here in just a few hours back for washington. he goes there without a lot of concrete accomplishments, without deliverables ...

. for our "what in the world segment," republicans worship at the altar of ronald reagan and admire him more than anything else, perhaps because he presided over a massive tax reform in 1986. even donald trump who doesnt often praise his republican predecessors says hes a fan of reagans and wants to follow his plan on taxes. >> we need a tax code that is simple, fair and easy to understand. >> trump is right. american taxpayers and businesses spent $8.9 billion a year, billion, doing taxes, co...

>> we carry ourselves dimp differently. im not the president of the united states. i appreciate he is approaching problems differently than his predecessors and so many of us are glad to see that that we havent seen in a long time. >> brent, the president, its been said that he is a detrorio face-to-face meetings behind closed doors. when you hear what president duterte has said, lay off, dont ask me about this, its not your business, how does the president -- do you think the president has the ...

The skill of chinese negotiator. in the room he was set up to scold the president, and he didnt. he said he didnt blame china, he blamed the u.s. predecessors. white house aides have said this was deliberate, the i dont blame line was not in the presidents prepared remarks. the sentiment was they feel like better off with the chinese to flatter them, not embarrass them publicly, but to work behind closed doors towards the issues, not just of trade, but also north korea. >> so, ken, theres all th...

So the president is seeming to throw a little bit of shade on the predecessors to who who were in office but at the same time accepting their assessment here. thats not the only bit of news coming out of this, too. remember that the summit in the philippines, the president just is about to be entering is related specifically to trade and the economy when it comes to for example that trans-pacific partnership, tpp eleven as its now called. president trump pulled out of the original trans-pacific ...

Actually. >> let me ask you though, from the perspective of many voters in the u.s. who elected donald trump to do just that, to take a different approach, which weve seen and now seen president trump make an offer that did seem out of the norms for what weve seen from predecessors. do you get a sense that this could be something that would be a welcome or open to world leaders? or is this something as you point out is just out of the norm? >> well, its difficult for me to make sense of his stat...

He didnt. instead, he said he didnt blame china, he blamed the u.s. predecessors. white house aides said this was deliberate. that though the, i dont blame line wasnt in the presidents prepared remarks, the sentiment was. they feel they are better off to flatter the chinese, as to not embarrass them publicly, but to work behind closed doors toward the issues, not just of trade, but also north korea. >> so ken, theres all the evidence that this was intentional and theyre willing to live with how ...

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Pence that they have their vp club, and biden and pence do speak maybe once a months. this is very interesting. >> yeah. and its great reporting from our nbc investigative team. i think there are a couple of takeaways. one pence is doing something that president trump is not doing, which is consulting with his predecessors, we know know relationship between trump and obama. the fact that pence is reaching out to them, smart, its a great bipartisan effort. my reaction to the report something why ...