Short and fat. We can still be friends. Just a little bit worse. Not so much physical comedy but some other comments will be coming later. We begin with those controversial remarks from President Trump over whether russia meddled in the 2016 election. He sparked confusion and criticism to comments he made to reporters following a private meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin at the apex summit saturday. When asked if russias attempt to meddle in the 2016 election, President Trump said every time he sees me he says, i didnt do that. And i really believe that. On the u. S. Intelligence community, he says i mean, give me a break. They are political hacks. So you look at that and you see president putin who says he had nothing to do with that. Facing sharp criticism from republicans and democrats alike. Clarifying his remarks during a press conference with the vietnamese president sunday trump said, quote, as to whether i believe it or not, im with our agencies, especially as currently constituted. Not leaving it there, the president took to twitter to respond to his critics writing, quote, when will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a Good Relationship with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing . Theyre always playing politics. Bad for our country. I want to solve north korea. Syria, ukraine, terrorism and russia can greatly help. And then does the Fake News Media when crooked Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, was begging russia to be our friend with the misspelled reset button . Obama tried also but he had zero chemistry with putin. Richard haas, go. Theres so much to unpack there. I followed you on twitter. I sort of feel like i read your i wont call it a nervous breakdown but your exas pich piration in real time. He continues to give russia a pass. A pass would be the benefit of the death. This is i believe them. Two years of essentially not seeing russia as the international spoiler, as the International Problem that they are. Second of all, he continues to overpersonalize relationships wlrks its with the leader with north korea, putin. Somehow personal chemistry matters. No. Country also follow their own national interests, which is what he should be doing. Third, he introduces american politics to trash professionals overseas, bringing up Hillary Clinton and so forth. No. You leave that stuff behind. If you ever go there, and the answer is you shouldnt, you just deal with the issues. Meantime, all of this is obscuring so much of what happened in this trip. The president of the United States goes to asia, takes the United States out of the principle dynamic in that part of the world, which is a global regional trading agreement. 40 of the worlds economy should be there. Weve taken ourselves out. Who is benefiting . China. China is the strategic beneficiary of this latest bout of american isolationism and protectionism. Thats what historians are going to write. Ind why everyone is focused on how inappropriate this was about american politics and kim jongun. It wont help to deal with north korea. The real story will be the United States abdicating its position. We will pay an economic and strategic price literally for decades to come. Making china great. I sense that you may have comments you would like to make on these matters. The president of the United States has been on this trip. Almost every day he has managed to take some kind of shot at his predecessors or people involved in his current government in some cases, certainly in past governments. In this case i thought the most shocking thing about this on some level was to wake up over the weekend and have him take ong clapper, comey and brennan and essentially feel like, again, once again his instinct is to side with Vladimir Putin over his entire Intelligence Community. Not just to do it but on foreign soil. Speak a bit to that. Could you imagine if barack obama had done this, the outcry that there would be in conservative media just for obama when he campaigned and he was in europe and the large crowds. And that was used by the Mccain Campaign back in 2008. The standards used to be so different. Big pictures so disturbing about this trip is, you know, President Trump is semi wellbehaved for a couple of days and not having as many outbursts and everyone is like this is a great trip. Our standards have gotten so low for what we expect of a president that if hes not causing some Major International incident, we assume thats a success. There was a change in his phrasing. I think thats important. After making a few calls over the weekend. Currently constituted, talking about the Intelligence Community, because white house officials and others said to the president you like director mike pompeo at the cia are. Reminding him. President trump, you appointed that guy. You picked them. Hes your guy. Not only is he his guy, most days he gives the president the president ial daily briefing. They have a real rapport. Because when bannon and so many people that were there, whispering in his ear, because he is at war with former leaders of the Foreign Policy. You do stand with pompeo. Yes, i do, he said privately. Thats why he switched it around a little bit. That doesnt mean that these comments about comey and clapper are going to end. That rage about what they said publicly about him still exist. The pompeo relationship, hes in a lot of trouble. He has had two missteps where the cia has had to correct. His rhetorical behavior has affected deeply the morale at langley in the cia. They wonder if hes a politician first or dci first. But richard mentioned history. And historys judgment on all of this. And sadly i truly regret to say this, but i all weekend lo long, watching and following this trip, we cant wait for history. The judgment is being made now. World leaders are laughing at our president of the United States who stands on foreign soil, attacks two career intelligence officials, bren sben clapper, calls them hacks. Attacks a former director of the fbi, calls him a liar. All of this happening after rejects tpp that you alluded to and while he rejects it and while they roll out a red carpet and they give him a big crowd and hes thrilled, saying things like nobody has ever seen this before for any foreign leader in china, they are picking our pockets. We are the United States of america and, regretfully i regret to say this. The president of the United States is without a clue as to who we are and what this country represents. Members of the well, moving on from that. Really. Uplifting way to start the morning. Bob corker is having a hearing tomorrow to talk about these responsibilities and said what you just said. He doesnt seem to understand what were about or what the job is about. On Veterans Day Weekend, too. Add to that. Exactly. Members of the tran s of the Tr Partnership are moving ahead with that deal without the United States. They reached a deal over the weekend on the core elements of the pact, which still needs to be finalized. President trump withdrew the United States from the negotiations process back in january. Japans economic minister said that he hoped that moving ahead with the deal would be a step toward bringing the u. S. Back into the fold. But in a speech at the apec summit, President Trump said he was only interested in bilateral deals in asia that would not disadvantage the u. S. , a sentiment he echoed, speaking at the asian summit in the philippines earlier this morning. We celebrate your incredible success and we also seek economic partnerships on the basis of fairness and reciprocity. We want our partners in the region to be strong, independent and prosperous, in control of their own destinies and satellites to no one. These are the principles behind our vision for a free and open indopacific. Weve made some very big steps with respect to trade, far bigger than anything you know. In addition to 300 billion in sales to Companies Including china that was 250 billion and growing upwards substantially from that. Weve made a lot of big progress on trade and have deficits with almost everybody. Those deficits will be cut very quickly and very substantially. The president says he expects the white house to issue a full statement on trade wednesday, following his return to the u. S. Richard haas, ive never seen you about to jump over the table before. He so misunderstands trade. He literally gave a speech where he talked about agreements that tie our hands. Last i checked thats what agreements do. Good news is that they tie everybody elses hands as well and on balance youre better off. These are deals to, yes, hundreds of billions of dollars but thats over a decade or 15 years. Trade agreements on a far larger scale. They help us economically and strategically and twav these types of arrangements. The other countries in the region are entering into these multilateral arrangements. Thats what they want, gives you the opportunity to deal with issues that you cant begin to deal with in Bilateral Agreements. These arent threats to our sovereignty. Theyre ways of enhance iing or Economic Growth and strengthening our alliance. Richard, explain the difference between china in tpp with us and without us. What happens to us . China isnt in tpp. They set up its own agreement. Under trade agreement that we helped design and participate in and have all sorts of rules that are good for us, instead youll have this agreement without us, which well lose access to the markets of our friends. China has set up an alternative, which is closer to the race to the bottom. It will be good for china to approximate strengthen the role of its government, its economy and its influence. Well be shut out of that. Were doing this to ourselves and the president and those around them, i hate to say this, dont seem to understand the basics of trade that you teach in economics 101. It doesnt matter that you have a bilateral deficit with this or that country. What matters is that trade added up. And if you look at the last 70 yea years, last i checked, mike, the United States has done pretty well in the world and its been done against the backdrops of regional trade agreements. I listen to richard haas sitting here, and im sympathetic to richard in a lot of ways on the economics here. I also hear, to donald trump and to a lot of trump supporters, i hear a lot of council on Foreign Relations, blah, blah, blah. The thing that donald trump is doing on the trade front here is the stuff he promised to do when he ran for president. His economic message over the course of the time that he ran, this was at the heart of it. Multilateral, all these trade deals, council on Foreign Relations, thats all for the birds and not helping the working man in america. Just think about the politics here. Is donald trump not, in fact, doing exactly, on this issue, exactly what he promised to do when he ran for president of the United States . It sounds like hes trying to do exactly what he promised to do. Here is the important distinction, even by his own measurement here. John, did you see him walk away from this summit with any kind of major big bilateral deals, even what were seeing here is that countries like china dont necessarily have to come to feel compelled to come to the negotiating table. Were moving forward without us and were seeing a president here who is walking away with very little to show at the end of the summit, even by his own standards. Were seeing that he is very thrilled, however, with the pageantry, with the rolling out of the red carpet for him. But what is the deal materially, even by his own standards, that he is walking away from this summit with in terms of bilateral trade deals . Secondly, we all remember that beat iing up on china, labeling china currency manipulator, that was the beating heart of his po populous message. Its actually our own fault. Its been the bad deals of our leaders. I could see that you would want to take advantage of us. Thats a huge come down from the language he used in the campaign trail, that china is raping us. So, to your point, yes, this is what he promised, was to take us out of these big trade deals. But at the same time, were seeing that his strategy of trying to cut these bilateral deals isnt really going to work out so well because these countries really arent compelled to negotiate them with us. Robert casa . You look at this trip, its not just about President Trump pulling away from International Agreements but him trying to reframe in a sense look at these foreign leaders. Look at abe. He can try to reimagine the relationship with china, indias rising in the region. Japan is try iing to be resurge. Theyre still a little cautious in china about this nationalist movement in the United States. They still want to deal with President Trump. They dont want to have such hostility with china, making working with him on north korea. You have them struggling to cut these bilateral deals. At the same time its interesting to watch because of this disruption, chaos caused by the United States walking away. Asian leaders are wondering how do we rebuild relationships with the United States to benefit ourselves in the region . If youre the Senior Adviser on the plane youre elated that they spent 16 minutes talking about the trade gap and not retrenching on russia. This trip, i cannot think of a time when an american president go as broad and theres absolutely no mention of american values. Nato was the last time. Yes, exactly. Its an established pattern now. He goes to the g20, talks to putin about russia, about the collusion and absolves him. Does the same thing this trip. He talks more about that on a foreign trip than he does human rights when hes in china. Standing next to a murderer, to a thug. Duterte or duterte. And putin. And putin. To give him that kind of presence, to stand up there and watch duterte attack the media and go along with it, this is a guy who he does the same thing. Thousands of killings. This guy is a thug. He likes authoritarians more than human freedom. We are now down to the point where every country where the president of the United States now goes and visits, they took the playbook of the saudi arabians when his first foreign trip occurred in saudi arabia. Here is what these countries do. They throw him a parade, roll out a red carpet, surround him with applause and they pick our pockets. Depressing final words. Still ahead on morning joe, new developments in the Alabama Senate race where roy moore is threatening legal action after being accused of molesting a teenager decades ago. Well play you his latest comments, including his answer when asked if he remembers dating girls that young. Leader of north korea ramped up again over the weekend. First, bill karins has a check on the forecast. Bill . Good morning, that cold, chilly weekend is still with us in areas of northern new england. Some areas of maine are still in the teens. Light rain is moving through. Done in d. C. Baltimore. Philadelphia, light rain over the next hour or two. Its just moving into new york city. Unfortunately theres still enough cold air in the Northern Edge of this that we have a little bit of wet snow mixing in. Careful driving through the poconos. Northern new england has a little bit of light snow. That cold temperature i told you about. 14 in caribou. Were not freezing as badly as we were in mid atlanta. Its still very chilly for the kid this is morning. Dlivent put the clothes on them as they head out the door. Huge storm coming onshore overnight. Winds today could pick up. We could see them as strong as 50 to 80mileperhour winds. Power outages are possible in the pacific northwest. Thats the biggest story on the map as far as storms go. And that will stay there over the next two days. 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