first. you should put your country first. the citizens of those countries have heard our president say that i have talked to those people in many of those countries yeah, i wish my president or my prime minister whoever is in charge would put us first. griff: step back just a bit and realize he is a businessman that got into politics because he felt a calling to lead the nation and so, you know, while the left has associated a really racist, you know, tie to the nationalism title some trade deals started to fight back with china and fight back with people in all of these pacs, he said i m going to do what s best for me. you know what? those countries are going to do the best thing for them. why wouldn t they? they would be stupid not to. more out of an economic position to give us economic strengthening. if you think of your own citizens as your own children, you want to work as hard as you can to give them the best future they have gout. that s the comparison is he making with regard
pled to at federal court will help and that will be a whole new level of hell for him. and as you have been pointing out this week, donald trump can t pardon his way out of new york state charges with any of these people, including himself. exactly, exactly. thank you, rachel. thanks, lawrence. here is something you have never heard a president say before: if i ever got impeached. the word impeach has not crossed the minds of most presidents. there is no reason to even mention the word during most presidencies, and there has been much media debate this year about whether it is too soon to discuss impeachment in the trump presidency. that debate ended today when the president of the united states discussed his own impeachment when he was asked about it on fox news. hard to believe. if the democrats take back power, do you believe they will try to impeach you? well, you know, i guess it
intelligence, you know, manipulate many people in my career, and i never would have thought the u.s. president would be one of them. so it s disappointing. i mean, also, that press conference showed why vladimir putin is so formidable when it comes to disinformation, because i actually believe that press conference was disinformation. well, that s a brief sampling. take a look at this list of republican senators and house members who mentioned president trump in tweets or in statements, all of them critical in one way or another, not supporting how the president handled this today. here are the republican lawmakers who have defended the intelligence community for its assessment that russia meddled in the 2016 election. joining me now is democratic senator jack reed, a member of the senate intelligence committee. senator, thanks very much for joining us. thank you. you know, so much has been said already about what happened today, but i d like to just hear your perspective on what
the heritage foundation reported that in just the first 500 days of our presidency not my presidency, it s our president say. let s face it. you re the one that did it. you re the one that did it. although i have been a good student. i told john and the whole group, and you know, some of them have been congressmen for like 25 or 30 years. they are asking me questions about politics. they said, i ve only been doing this for two and a half years, don t ask me a question like that. but we ve been good students, haven t we? the heritage foundation came out with a report and this was as of two months ago, we ve already implemented 64% of our top agenda items, and that is at a much faster pace than even
it s a very top down approach to this issue which the problem here is that the saudis aren t clamping down or the gulf states aren t clamping down, but he didn t really appeal at all to the 6 billion muslims around the world to suggest that he doesn t really hate muslims like he s said for the last two years. i think it s little on substance. we re not hearing anything new. this isn t a departure on american policy. i can t remember how many times the u.s. has said we re going to combat terrorism with the gulf countries. if you re looking for substantive policy, clear vision, anything that is going to be definitive, i would say i did not see anything particularly new about this. it s the same tone we have heard from subsequent american administrations. i think it s ironic you had a president say we re not going to lecture other countries about how they do business, but then they got a government they didn t deserve. it sounds like a regime change in iran. so i think there is a loft i