People at the time as the countrys number one problem in the gallup poll. In a mindexploding interview on a broadcast morning show, the president made a number of claims ending with his dismissal of Climate Change which we will get to later. The stand out moment came when trump was pressed by piers morgan about whether he would have liked i love that word liked to serve his country. Stumbling through the excuses, he offered up alibis, each more absurd than the one before. First he suggested he didnt serve because he was not a fan. That was his word. He was not a fan of the vietnam war and he claimed no one heard of vietnam at the time. He said he is now atoned for dodging the war, dodging the draft by increasing the military budget as president. You were not able to serve in vietnam because of a bone spur condition in your feet. Do you wish you have been able to serve . I was never a fan that was war. I will be honest. It was a terrible war that was very far away. You are talking about vietnam and at that time nobody ever heard of the country. Would you like to have served . I would not have minded and i would have been honored. I made up for it right now. 700 billion and this year 716 billion and im making up for it rapidly because we are rebuilding at a level the military has never seen before. Before the ridiculousness with piers morgan, the previous excuse is he avoided sexually transmitted diseases. Thats what he said before. He admitted he needed to make up for dodging the war because he served up money to the military as president. Its his sdwrob propose the military budget and his National Service as a citizen is simply being president. According to the New York Times, he avoided the war with a medical deferment for bone spurs. Contrary to the claim that nobody ever heard of vietnam, the polling shows vietnam was at the top issue. The article in the l. A. Times, the top issue in the country at the time he was skipping the draft. Anyway, for medical deferment that didnt exist. We found out one of his fathers tenants had given the draft excuse. In the same interview, he was asked about his attacks on the late senator, john mccain. Heres what he said last week that one of his aides asked to hide the uss john mccain during his trip to japan. Im not sure about that. I didnt know anything about it. Im not sure it happened. Someone said they are painting the ship. I have no idea if it happened or not. I hear its fake news. Maybe it is and maybe it isnt. I dont talk about john mccain unless somebody asks me about him. He said it didnt happen, but the Navy Confirmed that a request was indeed made from the white house to hide the ship from trumps view. Its all on the record. His acting chief of staff and head of the omb said it happened. You confident that it was nobody in the white house or the white house advanced person that made the request to the navy to cover up the uss john mccain . I believe it was someone on the advanced team. A 23 or 24yearold person went to the site and said there is the john mccain. We know how the president feels. Maybe thats not the best backdrop. Thats not an unreasonable thing to ask. Seriously . Its not. There is a man concerned about his reputation, unlike the president of the United States. Clair mccaskill and White House Correspondent from pbs news hour in london. The columnist from the Washington Post and what a list. We start with the senator. I dont know about being embarrassed is the right word, but what do you make of the loony tunes. Do you wish you had served in vietnam . A lot of people my age were asked if you wishd you had played a role. He said he got out of it because nobody ever heard of the country. Isnt that the most ridiculous. Vietnam was in everybodys hearts, minds, and souls in the late 1950s. It was embarrassing. He never said i dodged the draft because i didnt want to fight for my country. Thats the reality what he did. He dodged the draft because he had money in power and there were a lot of young men that died in vietnam that were drafted that department feel great about going to vietnam, but they went. Thats what we do in this country. We have a war and a draft, people must go. He never admitted that he was a draft dodger and one of the most ridiculous things he said that was beyond embarrassing is it was so far away. Like that has something to do with it. Im sorry. Its ludicrous. Im lavine i laughing. Its unbelievable. Mommy, its so far away. I dont want to go that far. We should remember a lot of young men dodged the draft including bill clinton. If you asked bill clinton this question, he came up with a different answer about objections to the war and about his honor to those who served, not equating whatever budgetary measures he took. Here told them at the university of arkansas he was going to join and he didnt. The fact that trump tried to get out of the draft is not what is offensive about what he said. Equating the service who put their lives in peril and give their lives for people like the vietnam war. He went to a cheesy doctor who was a tenant in his fathers building. They cooked it up. He was a concierge doctor. As a young man, i was a couple of years young. I had a draft number and everybody has a story about their vietnam time. Had the escalation phase gone on a couple of years later, i probably would have had to go. I didnt have bone spurs. Thats my honest story. A lot of us had high draft numbers and you have huge draft numbers. A 304, you are home free. Thats the way it works. Whats it smell like having our president making up the cockamamy excuses. He doesnt say the clinton people did, nobody wanted to go. Ua your thoughts . The president is trying to get credit for the fact that hes the president and considered the commander in chief and he is trying to prioritize the military, but here in london, i talked to so many people, mostly protesters of the president who put donald trump in a global window. They said he is not just someone who problematic for the United States. Hes a symbol for fascism and far right extreme thoughts. Fascism . They look at our president elected in this country two or three years ago as a fascist . Yeah. People, the protesters who were not happy with donald trump and came out to the streets said they were worried about the fact that he was talking to Boris Johnson and talking to these people that they hope are characters in their own country and they want the president here spreading his ideology. That might take people aback. They dont think democracy and freedom, but they think racism and a person who is the symbol of everything wrong in the world. When are asked about americas problem with gun violence. He said Assault Rifles is a form of entertainment. Lets listen. I never have understood why anyone in America Needs an ar 15 Assault Rifle at home. Why do they need . I lot of them use it for entertainment. Guns are entertainment . For some people its entertainment. They go out and shoot. This guy had 13 ar 15 Assault Rifles. He bought 51 guns in one year. If it wasnt guns he would have done bombs. He was a successful gambler. There is almost no such thing. What he did was incredible. He sounds like he is praising his abilities. And discounting the threat within the last few days from the arsenals citizens have. The question is he is getting is from one of the friendliest interviewers he had. Someone he thinks of as a friend. Why did he say the guy is incredible and successful. He killed 50 something people. He probably looks at john gotti as a successful guy. He knew what he was doing. A motherous mobster. There was a part of trump that takes any success field in any direction as success. On the merits. That says a lot about trump. That leaks out. Hes a leader in his field. He went for it. Its incredible. And also the word choice. Entertainment . Its just a bizarre word choice. This guy won an election you lost. We picked him. This is dday 75 years later. One of the wonderful things that i did and think most of us agree, he wrote a letter explaining the failure of normandy if it failed. He was ready to take the blame. He said, you know, its my fault. I made the decision on the day, the strategy and everything. It was my alliance and blame me. Maybe the American People have to have that ability in 2020. We made a mistake. We just made a mits tastake, including in missouri. You have to understand, chris, there is such angst and frustration with the dysfunction of our government right now. The middle has disappeared. Everyone has gone to their respective corners. When that happens in a democracy, nothing gets done. When nothing gets done, people get cynical. To use a metaphor here that may not be appropriate, they pull the pin on the grenade and toss it into the swamp. That was what donald trump was to the people who supported him. We need change and maybe this guy because he is so different. Barack Hussein Obama didnt get us change. Did they expect this jack in the box to blow open . Did they expect the performance we saw . A lot of disillusioned and a lot of them are defensive of this president. They feel like the only reason he is not succeeding is because the media is lying about him and the swamp is getting in his way. Thats the reality on the ground in places that support donald trump. Thats why our candidate, whoever that might be needs to stay firmly focused on the entire group of people that are potentially going to vote for them, not just the folks that are active in a democratic primary. Also the people who are proud to call themselves moderates. I saw George Mcgovern lose more than 40 states. This president ial performance over there, how do you feel as a reporter watching this spectacle . In some ways we are watching history, the president came here and he was throwing insults from before he landed and picking fights with the mayor and saying Meghan Markle was nasty even though he said thats not what he meant. As a reporter, i see in a global sense, everyones reaction to the p. Evresident. When you go out into the world, people in britain are beside themselves when they look at the president. They are thinking how is this what america became. We looked to you to be leaders on Climate Change and leaders on how to be a president and how to really fulfill the democratic values. What we are seeing for people who dont like President Trump, a total collapse of american values. Maybe they will see him some day as a aberration like cromwell. Thank you very much. Coming up, the battle for the democrats progressive left. Elizabeth warren may be gaining momentum. Chris hayes joining me after this with senator warren. Plus, more from Trumps International road show, Prince Charles tried in vain to convince trump that Climate Change is a crisis. He had this to say. Hes not doing for him. Hes doing it for future generations. This is real. He believes that. He wants to have a world thats good for future generations and i do, too. Hes Prince Charles. He doesnt have to worry about future generations unless hes a good person who cares about people. Its like an 8yearold with crayons. Bill nye the science guy who is a leading voice on Climate Change joins us live. Stick with us on this loony tunes day. Stick with us. Ony tunes day. Stick with us. Pnc bank has technology to help make banking easier, like. Pnc easy lock, so you can easily lock your credit card when its maximum limit differs from its vertical limit. 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Elizabeth warren, here she is in indiana campaigning on her economic message and trying to win voter who is went for trump in 2016. Americas Economic Policy for decades now has been what giant corporations do whatever they want. Heres the problem. Those giant corporations, they are not loyal to america. They are not loyal to american workers. Theyre loyal to exactly one thing. Their own profits. Yep. As the New York Times writes, neither ms. Warrens campaigns or mr. Sanders will say they deliberately are eying each other even though they are the candidates out of more than 20 and most represent the partys left flank. The trip to the upper midwest is the latest example of how they are jockeying the same cohort of left leaning voters and donors. A new poll makes the point that shows warrens support is trending upwards and sanders is declining. Look at that. She was 7 to his 24 two months ago and now she is 10 to his 19. Thats a tightening race. Im joined by chris hayes, host of all in who will be holding a live town hall after hardball with senator warren in ft. Wayne, indiana. I dont know if you see it, but lets talk about it. I get the sense that its zero sum with her and bernie. She goes up and he will come down a bit. Thats probably right, but there is a lot of space in time for the dynamics to shake out. There a lot of votes on the table and i think that the most obvious formulation that people are conceiving of suspect basically biden and a few alternatives as they winnow down. There is possibly space for both of them. If you look at the polling, they are commanding marge r chunks. Ultimately if both of those candidates survived later and later which they are well poised to do, there is going to be a natural desire for one of them to overtake the other. What are do you make about bernies race . Does it have the fire . She has been going up with new ideas every couple of days. She is generating policy and places that she said i have something for everything. Bernie is selling the socialist mantle of the guy who has been here before. Stick with me. When the team conceded the race, im not sure they thought biden was going to get in and quite prepared for how much of a chunk biden would take up and how much oxygen he would take because they were the only nonHillary Clinton functionally. She and the campaign sort of had a theory and a strategy which was, we are going to make news by releasing policy and coming up with ideas. We will do a ton of town halls and take a ton of questions and be clear about our positions and that tourism, their theory has born a lot of rewards. What do you think of the wealth tax . Thats one way to grab the passion on the hard left. People are angry about inequality and they dont think all boats rise with the tide and they want someone to say that. The funniest thing about the wealth tax is it has plurality. Whether that would survive an actual election in which a huge amount of money and messaging would be brought to bear on why its a bad idea. If you talk to people even though in the terms of american political debate taxing health as opposed to income is a departure. Its broadly extremely popular when you pass it by people, not just on the left. For may not be constitutional. Good luck with the crowd. They are all attentive and ready to hear from you. Hi so quiet. Our people are much noisier. They are trying to be respectful. I like them already. Everybody watching to catch chriss live town hall. There she is. Elizabeth warren at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. The democratic strategist and host of hill tv. Republican strategist. You first. I want you to look at the field. Is there anything moving . Im looking at it and the numbers we get every couple of days. Do you see it moving up or down . People are moving, but when will it stop . We will see this for several months. We are three weeks away from the first debate on msnbc and nbc. That will be zero telling. The bright lights go up and you are going to see people really shine who we didnt expect and others have flopped, not expecting that either. We have a lot of movement and when it comes to the sanderswarren situation, its more about sanders came in and he had that support being the outsider against the establishment from 2016. He just thought he had it. He didnt realize he had to keep earning it. Elizabeth warren assumed nothing and she is grinding it out, doing her job going from town hall to town hall offering policy. Bernie seems a little mean and angry right now. Some of my kids had a lot of peoples kisseds. The young people. One woman in the primary last time said she was for bernie and i said why. She said because everybody said i shouldnt be. She wanted to be against the norm. Let my try my theory. Elizabeth warren is not eating bernies lunch, but she is gaining on him. Why . Elizabeth warren is doing something that is very keen. She is sh