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Decided he wanted to do that anyway to smack her back about the state of the union or something. and because he wanted to make as big a deal as possible about him cancelling that military transportation, the president also today publicly disclosed for the if ifirst time that tha trip was supposed to happen, which means even if nancy pelosi and other members of congress did find alternative means of transportation to go take that congressional delegation to go visit troops in afghanistan, they no...

Something. and because he wanted to make as big a deal as possible about him cancelling that military transportation, the president also today publicly disclosed for the first time that that trip was supposed to happen. which means even if nancy pelosi and other members of congress did find alternative means of transportation to go take that congressional delegation to go visit troops in afghanistan, they now of course cannot for security reasons because the president blew that up. there is a re...

Message. which is im not afraid to go visit troops. this was starting to be a real question after two years without a presidential visit anywhere. secondly, he has damaged his political base. by firing secretary of defense jim mattis. i think he felt the need to show some port fsupport for the mili broadly speaking. hes trying to justify this withdraw from syria. which i and others continue is a bad move because it tactically opens up a lot of battle space for the islamic state. it opens up the ...

To explain the change in course. >> lets bring in elise labott. from a diplomatic perspective, how does this play out to choose iraq, how do you think our partners and our enemies in this region will respond? >> well, i mean, as weve talked about, it customary for a president to go visit troops. usually theyll meet with some iraqi commanders or iraqi leaders and talk to them about the situation on the ground. we havent talked that much about whats going on in iraq right now. yes, isis has been, ...

His voters about isis and has not been able to deliver on. whether or not its the best decision or the most well informed decision, he wants to double down because he can lean in on that, just like the wall. something he campaigned on and has to push through despite being no support for or significant support from the base. >> im not even sure -- i understand he wants to be out of there but theres not a clamor from the base to withdraw the troops. its a small number of troops. you dont have to g...

Wrong about foreign money coming into the u.s., samuel alito started mouthing not true. now the president at the time did not rebuke samuel alito. its just that samuel alito got a lot of criticism for that comment. and about eight, nine weeks later, the chief justice was at the university of alabama and asked about that setting, and he actually did criticize the setting. he said that there they were, as president obama got to have the -- his lectern up there speaking out against the justices rig...

Presidents have done, including visit troops and feed them thanksgiving dinner, you look at what hes doing with these crazy tweets on that weekend. >> well, and this business the white house today where it was designed to honor the navajo people who helped break the code in world war ii, supposed to be about them and instead used a child-like and derogatory term to describe a political opponent, senator warren. we are better than this in. >> theres a vast majority disapproval for the things we a...

Country as a whole. the tone and tenor of this presidency is -- theres no other word for it. awful. i think the publics aching for, even people opposed to president trump for his political affiliation and his policy matters would say, we are looking for a president, we expect a president to be sensitive, to be knowledgeable, to be caring. you dont get that. you call this the worst weekend for any president in the history of the country. and i havent checked all the way back -- >> worst thanksgiv...

His instinct is not in align with the past presidents, so why does he do it? i dont know. it may be part of the fabric of who donald trump is, and thats disappointing when thats the person sitting in the oval office. >> he talked about how it is for him, and how hard the phone calls are for him. he did say that. >> thats something every past president has felt. there are things that are the right thing to do and the right way to handle the men and women who have served. i would love to see him w...