Thank you for being with us. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in last night was yet another test, and donald trump failed yet again. Clinton and trump trade blows the day after. The whole country saw how unfit she was at the town hall last night. Tonight, from the combo plan on isis if i like maybe a combination of my plan and the generals plan, or the generals plan. To lauding a russian strong man. He does have an 82 Approval Rating. To top secret body language. Im pretty good with the body language. What did america learn about Donald Trumps fitness to be president . And why donald trump is doubling down on its putin praise. I think its inarguable that putin has been a stronger leader in his country than president obama has been in this country. The clinton response to being told to smile more, by the head
of the rnc, and move over usa freedom kids. Theres been another defection from team trump. I cant handle this when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. In the 24 hours since last night commander in chief forum, perhaps the most memorable moment of the day came from someone who wasnt even on that stage. The returning candidate, gary johnson. What would you do if you were elected about aleppo. . About . And what is aleppo . Youre kidding. No. Aleppo is in syria. Its the epicenter of the refugee crisis. Okay, got it. Got it. Well, with regard to syria, i do think that its a mess. That is true. Amid the resulting surprise and ridicule, johnson explained to the daily beast, i was thinking about an acronym, not the syrian conflict, i blanked. Never for any politician admit what you do not know. Just bluff and bluster your way through. A lesson donald trump seems to have grasped a long time ago. His mastery was on display last night. Moderator matt lauer asked the gop nominee about his new proposal to give military brass 30 days after he takes office to come up with a plan to defeat isis. A proposal that seems to contradict earlier statements from the candidate about already having a plan, he just cant reveal. Is the plan youve been hiding this whole time asking someone else for their plan . No. But when i do come up with a plan that i like and that perhaps agrees with mine or maybe doesnt, i may love what the generals come back with. I will but you have your own plan . I have a plan, but i want to
be look, i dont want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is. And let me tell you, if i like maybe a combination of my plan and the generals plan, or the generals plan. If i like their plan, im not going to call you up and say, we have a great plan. This is what obama does. Were going to leave iraq on a certain day. But youre going to convene a panel of generals and youve already said you know more about isis than those generals. Theyd probably be different generals, to be honest. He was asked about his controversial praise for russian president Vladimir Putin. He does have an 82 Approval Rating according to pollsters who some are right here. He annexed crimea, invaded ukraine, supports assad in syria, iran, and is trying undermine us, and is probably
the source of the hacking of the dnc computers . But nobody knows that. But want me to start naming some of the things that prob does . But do you want to be complimented by that guy . Ill take the compliment. If he says great things about me, im going to say great things about him. Ive already said, you can say hes a leader. He has strong control of a country. Its a different system and i dont like the system. But certainly in that system, hes been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader. This was trumps response about securing the middle east from terrorism even after u. S. Military involvement ends. If we would have taken the oil, you wouldnt have isis. Because isis formed with the power and the wealth of that oil. How were we going to take the oil . We would leave a Certain Group behind and you would take various sections where they have the oil. People dont know this about iraq, but they have among the
largest oil reserves in the world, in the entire world. Back on the campaign trail today, trump repeated the much debunked claim that he opposed the iraq war from the beginning, even after Hillary Clinton directly went after it last night. I opposed doing in, and i did oppose it, despite the media saying, no, yes, no, i opposed going in. I made a detailed statement in an interview to esquire magazine. Absolute quote. Look at the war in iraq and the mess that were in. Right after the war started. That was actually in 2004. Esquire has appended an editors note to point out that trump is wrong with the timing. At a tarmac press conference this morning, Hillary Clinton savaged her opponents appearance at the commander in chief forum. Last night was yet another test and donald trump failed yet again. He trashtalked american generals, saying theyve been, quote, reduced to rubble. He suggested he would fire them, and replace them with his handpicked generals. Thats how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. He praised russias strong man, Vladimir Putin. Even taking the astonishing step of suggesting that he prefers the russian president to our american president. Now that is not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country, as well as to our commander in chief, it is scary. What would Ronald Reagan say about a republican nominee who attacks americas generals and heaps praise on russias president . On the other side of the world, the g20 summit in laos, president obama was asked about trumps performance last night. I dont think the guys qualified to be president of the United States. And every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed. And i think the most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what he says and follow up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright whacky ideas. Joining me now, christopher hill, u. S. Ambassador to iraq 20092010. Ambassador, first just your broad reaction to what you saw last night . You know, i watched it very carefully. Just fundamentally, this is not a serious person discussing serious issues. He simply doesnt understand what hes talking about. I mean, where to begin. I mean, to talk about this idea that we should take the oil,
what on earth does he have in mind . That we literally take it . That we keep it by putting guards around it, so the iraqis or anyone else cant use it . Does he want us to get rid of it to prevent isis what is he talking about . I dont know and he doesnt know. Then when he talks about this secret plan, lets say he has a plan, which i think is a dubious proposition, but lets say he has a plan. Could he at least tell us . Is there a diplomatic part . An intelligence part . What are the elements of this socalled secret plan . Frankly speaking, theres just nothing there. I understand were in an election, there needs to be a notion that both sides have different points of view, but this is just so unserious, it just boggles the mind. I think part of the issue is that we are dealing with an historically anomalous situation in that the nominee of one party
has never held office. The nominee of the other party has held various points in government life. On the issue of iraq, Hillary Clinton voted on iraq, she was a supporter of that war. She has a Public Record on that. Fairly Public Record on libya. Donald trump has a howard stern interview, iphone video on libya. Theres a certain kind of asymmetry built into this in terms of how you even evaluate what Donald Trumps positions are when hes a Real Estate Developer and reality show star . Well, hes a Real Estate Developer and a reality show host. Hes not a representative of corporate america. Any Large Corporation have assistants, Vice President s, all kinds of different people working on things. So you could perhaps say theres some analogy to how government would work. Youd have staff meetings, papers being written. But clearly thats not what goes
on in trump world. Theres himself, theres some family, theres some interest in making money on real estate deals, but basically it has nothing to do with corporate america. It has nothing to do with anything that the rest of us can really relate to. So we have a person who is just so fundamentally unqualified, its just difficult to get across the sort of basic concept. He should not be where he is. And yet he is. And i think it speaks to problems within our society, problems of our ability to work within our institutions, the lack of respect for institutions, the great frustrations Many Americans have in their daily lives. So i think after trump, we need to make sure that trumpism does not succeed. Yeah, i wouldnt get ahead of ourselves, ambassador. Thank you very much for your time tonight. Appreciate it. Im joined now by phil clay, marine corps veteran, author of the awardwinning book,
redeployment. This is one of the most spectacular works that ive read in the last decade. Pick up this book. Phil asked a question at the forum last night. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Your question was the one that led to the just take the Oil Discussion in which he said, ive lost blood, sweat, tears, treasure, be spent to try to secure areas in iraq, to see it being taken back, to fall into the hands of groups like isis. What would you do . Were you satisfied there was a real plan, details . No. And look, we already defeated isis back when they were called al qaeda in iraq. 20072008. Because of a variety of factors in the region, they came back. Its not enough to send troops for a short amount of time. You need to have a more thoughtful plan for what youre going to do in a region, if you want to send people to fight and die for our country. You know, there was no substance to what he said. I think it was distressing. You would hope, because he has a chance of being responsible for young men and women who might be sent into harms way, there are real people. I know its abstract to a lot of americans, but they are real people whose lives might be on the line depending on the choices that the next commander in chief makes. Probably the most charitable of interpreting his take the oil comment is that he doesnt know what hes talking about and that its not serious. If we take it serious, what that would look like, us, sending troops its not like going to the bank. Sending troops to an area in iraq, that would make everyone hate us, it would shatter our alliances. Im guessing we would have those troops, you know, being i. D. d
and snipered to secure oil fields. And you know this is the cia map of iraqi oil and infrastructure, light and dark green represent oil fields. Just to give people a sense of the scope. Just so people understand. If you were to think seriously about what that would entail, and also, the backlash that it would bring about, and the idea that that would create less terrorism in the world, less extremist groups in the world is i mean, its just not worth taking seriously. Youve said in the introduction. Hallie jackson was introducing you as a democrat. My sense is that your politics align with Hillary Clinton more so than donald trump. What do you think about this argument that shes too quick to use intervention, that she doesnt learn from iraq, libya, that shes the one that would put american troops in danger. Ive written critically about
barack obama, about george bush. Its your job to be critical of not just people of the other party, but especially of your own. And i think there are a lot of questions to be had about Hillary Clintons Foreign Policy. You know, unfortunately, i think theres a way in which a serious discussion about there are plans right now, the military has a plan to defeat isis. We could be talking about the specifics of whether its working and and yet, were talking about whether or not we should take the oil. Whatever that means. And so there are plenty of questions to be had about Hillary Clinton and debate, she defended the intervention in libya which i thought was very interesting. She said if we hadnt done that, it could have turned into syria and been worse than it is now. Theres a lot of substance. But you can talk about that as
actual policies that are conceivable that a president might have. Thats well said. Phil klay, you should get that book. Thank you. Im joined by the chief strategist to the Romney Campaign in 2012. I thought it was interesting today, we know that donald trump has expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin numerous times. He seems to like leaders that he perceives as strong. Hes talked admiringly of the tiananmen square, putting down the dissidents there. But i thought it was interesting to hear mike pence back him up today. I think its inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than barack obama has been in this country. And thats going to change the day that donald trump becomes president of the United States of america. The one thing i know about Vladimir Putin, hes doing whats right for russia. Theres no question about that. When i listen to the obama administration, im not sure if theyre doing whats right for this country, or whats right for our enemies. There are times i dont even know. Don jr there. Whats your response to that, stewart . Look, four years ago, we had a nominee who rightly called out the threat that russia and putin posed to american values. Frankly, its heartbreaking to see that the position of the leaders of the Republican Party are going to be proputin. The very idea that you could say a russian president , who wasnt really elected, is a better president than the american president , who was elected by the American People is mindboggling. Imagine if someone said, i admire hitler, he has control of his people. It would just be incredibly
unamerican. I just dont understand it. I just want to say for myself, my own view on this, that im somewhere in the space of i do not believe russia is americas greatest geopolitical foe, which i think is the phrase that mitt romney used in 2012. Nor do i think that Vladimir Putin is a better president than president obama. Heres what i want to know. Is donald trump executing some sort of transformation of the Republican Party now, the way that he talks about Foreign Policy, which is quite different than the way republicans before him have talked about Foreign Policy . Its muddled in selfcontradiction, but has a number of impulses that have not been impulses celebrated or shared by the republican establishment . Look, i think theres a Donald Trump Party and theres a Republican Party, and i am i have difficulty seeing where the two overlap. Donald trump is a proputin
candidate. Hes for a 45 tariff. Thats to the left of bernie sanders. These are he wants to dismantle nato or destabilize nato. Hes the antiRonald Reagan. Everhing that Ronald Reagan stood for, Ronald Reagan stood for freedom. He stood in front of the berlin wall and said, tear down this wall. Now we have a nominee who is praising a thug who killed americans. I dont see how that exists within the values that the Republican Party has said its stood for in our modern era. When you say killed americans, youre referring to the Malaysian Airlines flight that was shot down that had americans . Yeah. Hes lost a ground war against his neighbors, kills journalists. If these values are not antiamerica, what does america stand for . And to have leaders of a party praising this person as a strong
leader, because hes basically a quasi elected dictator, its just astonishing. I mean, if barack obama had said this in 2008, senator obama, in a debate with john mccain, that he preferred the russian president over the american president , republicans would have called for him to withdraw from the race. Stuart stevens, appreciate your time tonight. Thank you very much. Still to come, donald trump stands by his deeply troubling comments on Sexual Assault in the military. Congresswoman tammy duck worth joins me to talk about that ahead. Plus, trump makes claims about his classified Intelligence Briefings, renewing concern over him receiving Intelligence Briefings. What he said after this twominute break. Hmmmmm. [ dreams by beck ] hmmmmm. The turbocharged dream machine. The Volkswagen Golf gti. Named one of car and drivers 10best, 10 years in a row. But my back pain was making it hard to sleep and open up on time. Then i found aleve pm. The only one to combine a sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. Now im back. Aleve pm for a better am. Sorry, captain obvious. Dont be. Ive got the hotels. Com app, which makes it simple to book a room for 500. Or 25, but it wont be here. You can stay with me. Thanks. Ive already lost enough today. If youre approaching 65, nows the time to get your ducks in a row. To learn about medicare, and the options you have. You see, medicare doesnt cover everything only about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. So if 65 is around the corner, think about an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by un