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Taking a swipe on joe biden in a tweet praising kim jong-un. drawing a swift response from elizabeth warren. >> foreign policy by tweet does not work. >> and beto orourke, who called on trump to end the love affairs with dictators and strongmen. but biden calling the presidents tweet unhinged and erratic. >> kim jong-un is a murderous dictator, and joe biden served this country honorably. >> i was speeding up the line there. >> reporter: senator bernie sanders, cooling off with three ice cream s...

George bush? this is the latest in a record of all kinds of support, rhetorical and otherwise, for strongmen and dictators. take a look at trump siding with kim jong-un and against his own national security advisers over whether north korea has broken u.n. security resolutions which is a much more significant version of perhaps the same tendency. the whole issue is over these new missile tests. >> my people think it could have been a violation, as you know. i view it differently. i view it as a ...

Issue at the top of the show, well do it now. lead with the evidence. anthony, you heard bill kristol lay out what i think to a lot of viewers is a persuasive case. bill added he was personally physically nauseous with the presidents conduct, you can disagree with that. what he laid out and what we showed was a pattern of cozying up to authoritarians, to strongmen, to dictators in a way that bill argues is contrary to the national security interests, to say nothing of what a cheap shot it was at...

From senator elizabeth warren -- >> foreign policy by tweet does not work. >> reporter: and beto orourke who called on trump to end these love affairs with dictators and strongmen. a biden aid responding to cnn, calling the presidents tweet unhinged and erratic, while bidens rivals jumped in to defend him. >> kim jong-un is a murderous dictator and vice president biden served this country honorably. >> reporter: the former vice president was off the trail this weekend, but that isnt stopping ano...

Calls demanding freedom and change, and the strongmen loyal to president nicolas maduro roaming on bikes, firing tear gas into the crowd. hundreds racing to safety. tens of thousands of people have come out onto the streets today. its been largely peaceful, but theres also been violence and earlier, we heard the sound of gunshots. opposition leader juan guaido, strongly backed by the trump administration, continued his daring call to action. just yesterday, guaido calling for the military to rev...

Tower, who was with him during the campaign, is someone who was engaged with autocrats throughout the world, likes strongmen just like president trump likes strong autocratic leaders throughout the world, and he sees paul manafort in that sympathetic light. not through the sentencing memo that we saw today. and congressional republicans are privately telling the white house, we are already in containment mode with this mueller report on the horizon. were going to have to probably spend the rest ...

The campaign, is someone who was engaged with autocrats throughout the world, likes strongmen just like president trump likes strong autocratic leaders throughout the world, and he sees paul manafort in that sympathetic light. not through the sentencing memo that we saw today. and congressional republicans are privately telling the white house, we are already in containment mode with this mueller report on the horizon. were going to have to probably spend the rest of the year talking about the p...

A book that youre ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! as president trump declared a national emergency over fortifying u.s. borders, a critical relationship with our allies overseas may be deteriorating. the munich conference report concluded that, quote, u.s. efforts would be far more credible if president trump and his administration did not display an irritating enthusiasm for strongmen across the globe, and the disdain for the internati...

Perhaps a reflection that global norms still do not celebrate strongmen. putin and erdogan hold a much weaker hand than people realize. they, too, along with the saudi crown prince, stayed home. the one area of consistent optimism among the attendees remained technology and the next greater opportunity, leveraging artificial intelligence to make companies far more efficient and productive. business executives were more openly pessimistic about trade. they worried that a u.s./china trade war coul...

Who donated money to the 2012 inauguration for barack obama. is this scrutiny warranted? is this a clear-cut case of a double standard? >> on the surface it certainly seems to be a double standard. the investigation of hillary was never a real investigation of her and that is troubling. i dont like to draw conclusions like that about justice and i was raised to believe justice is blind but we havent heard from justice. these were leaks into the newspaper, its not yet confirmed. if the focus is o...