Roller coaster ride known as the Trump Administration. 200 days. Three words that sum them up is dug himself deeper. First 100 days he averaged about five generally untruths. Today is President Trumps 200th day in office, and he has been touting his successes on twitter. So he is marking his 200th day in office by taking a day off, sort of. He is in new jersey for 17 days in what he billed as a work vacation. Despite the new promise that new chief of staff john kelly would restore order and discipline to the Trump Administration, one thing has not changed. A big rsurprise here, trump stil loves twitter. He was up firing off more defensive tweets. He lashed out at the media, talked up his presidency, and set his sights on richard blumenthal. Also this, reports that prominent republicans are running Shadow Campaigns jock jockeying for 2020. Could the Vice President be chief among them . No according to mike pence. Pence called the story of his 2020 aspirations disgraceful and offensive to me, my family, and my family. Lets find out the truth behind all of this. Not far from where the president is vacations. Phil rucker, an msnbc political analyst, and a National Reporter for the New York Times and msnbc contributor. Be peter, let me start with you. He is spending his 200th day at a golf resort in new jersey. Rainy day, unlikely he is playing a lot of golf today. The army used to say we do more before 9 00 a. M. Than most people do in a full day. Nine tweets before 8 00 a. M. This morning, lets walk you through some of it. The trump base is far bigger and stronger than ever before, despite phoney fake news polling. Rallies in pennsylvania, ohio, west virginia. The fake news, stock market, border security, job, Supreme Court pick, economic enthusiasm. It comes as there have been questions about how firm that trump base is with numbers beginning to fall a bit. Here is what else he wrote, reigniting a feud with richard blumenthal. He told stories of his battles an conquests and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness. How he judges collusion. Blumenthal did misrespepresent service. He was in the marine reserves, but the suggestion that he cried is simply untrue. Lets look over at mike pence, and could the Vice President be trying to shorten his title, maybe drop the vice from his name and go for president pence in 2020. He insists that is not the case. The Vice President in an extraordinary statement that he released, basically said that this whole suggestion was laughable and absurd. He said it is disgraceful and offensive to me. He said he was looking to build a potential Shadow Campaign of sorts, eyeing a 2020 house bid. This follows reporting that even his own spokesperson does not dispute he made a trip to a big republican event in iowa this year. He is meeting privately at the president s residence with donors and Business Leaders and more broadly that he set up a leadership pack that he would be able to raise money that he needs for political investments. He says all of that was done with the support of the trump family, specifically the president s own children, to support the president s reelection in 2020. The other republicans who are, who now have an eye on 2020, what is going on in the Republican Party that so many people are starting to test the waters . Essentially, the Republican Party is looking at President Trump saying he may have a weakness. He may not run in 2020 or the party wont back him and he doesnt feel like he wants to continue in the job, or two that republicans will see him as someone that cant pass legislation, that he has not gotten the Health Care Bill passed, infrastructure passed, tax reform. If he has not gotten big wins, the Republican Party is saying look we can put up people with proven records that will maybe be more appealing to not just his base but other republicans. What youre seeing is a Republican Party that is not united. While President Trump was able to beat Hillary Clinton by having his base and having the Republican Party get behind him at the last minute, at the end of the day he has not really had the loyalty from the Republican Party ever. Phil, it is not just that the republicans think he might not have done enough in order to run for 2020, but republicans think maybe he will not want to run in 2020. And theyre looking at him as someone that made volatile decisions. He will not do the traditional path of obviously running for reelection. He has not made that decision or announcement yet. He talked about it. People think maybe he will pull a surprise and be tired of it and go out declaring a win. Not enjoying his time in office it seems like. He seems to at least enjoy it now. Talking more about what he has been able to get done so far. He is on a 17day vacation. He is saying its a working vacation, but congress has not gotten any major legislation passed. The major legislation they have done has been bipartisan sanctions on russia and the president only very be grudgingly signed that. How can he call for senators to not talk off an august recess, and then himself go on a vacation. He used to attack president obama every time he took a vacation. So there is hypocrisy there. They dont have a legislative achievement yet. The confirmation of neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court is he going to be able to do any of this . He has not been able to do is so far. The first 200 days of your presidency you have the most political capital. His Approval Rating is in the 30s. It hit 33 last week which is a record low. Is it fair to start putting out the term that he is lame duck this early on . It seems early, but you have to look at the senate where there are a number of republicans now who feel totally free to block him, so speak out against him. They dont fear him at all. Look at what senator je atanasijevic kjeff collins. I ran out of time and i didnt get to ask you about trump tv, which just debuted. It didnt just debut, but the Washington Post is calling it real pin but it feels like real propaganda or state tv. Thank you to my guests for joining me on this monday. And republican congressman buddy carter represents the state of georgia. He joins me now. Congressman, so great to see you. I want to talk about the president s first 200 days. Are you happy with the legislative accomplishments that your party has been able to get done . Absolutely. Really . Like what. Look at the employment numbers that came out for the month of july. We added over 209,000 jobs. I think that is significant. Look at, we have a 16 year high in consumer confidence. A 16 year low in unemployment. Those are significant numbers. Look at what the Stock Exchange is doing. Over 22,000. That is not anything to just dismiss. These are significant numbers of what is happening in our economy. Certainly not. And theyre on a upward trend and they have been for quite some time now, even before the president got into office, but i asked about legislative accomplishments. Well, and you know contrary to what you may have heard in the news, we have done a lot of work in the house. And significant work as well. We passed over 400 bills, 34 landed on the president s desk and 29 have been signed into law. Including that is the v. A. Accountability act. The whistleblower act that helped us get rid of poor performing employees in the v. A. , and the choice act that was killing Community Banks and hurting small businesses. You have not entirely repealed dodd frank though, thats not fair to say. No, but it was a significant repeal. Not entire, but significant. It will save our Community Banks which in the state of georgia, we have taken a big hit in and this and it hurt very much. What about what the g. O. P. Laid out for the goals for the year. Repeal and replace obama care, funding the wall, dodd frank partially as you said. Theyre trying to move on to tax reform. Thats still up in the air, and we were talking initially about some sort of infrastructure reform or starting that in august. There has been no word about that, so are you happy that none of those things have gotten done . Well, obviously im personally very disappointed that we didnt get the repeal and replacement done of obama care. We continue to work on that and we are not giving up. Pharma care is imploding as we speak. We have to resuscitate the Health Care System in our country. Were moving on to tax reform. Tax reform is everything we all know we need. An an kuwaited system that needs to be updated is and this will help our economy even more, and infrastructure is another area where the president is expressed an interest and we have in congress that were going to do something about the infrastructure in our country. If this was a president pence in charge, do you think more of that would have gotten done or does it need to be a different Republican Party in charge of congress, more of those legislative accomplishments getting done . Listen, donald trump is our president and he will be for the next four and eight wayears. Health care is tough, i get it, i know is personal, it is a sixth of our economy, it is a very difficult subject. We took it on like responsible people do and were still working on it and we will get it right. We continue on, we continue on track with this president and we continue on track with what were doing in the house of representatives. You know we cant control the senate. The senate is a different body and it was intended to be, but what we do in the house of representatives i would submit to you that the house of representatives right now is functioning well. We have done our job. We delivered on health care. We gave americans an affordable, Accessible Health centers, patient centered health care. Buddy carter of georgia, thank you very much. The president called your version of the House Health Care mean. There was that. Well leave it there congressman, thank you so much. Appreciate your time. I love your state down there in georgia, great place, great restaurants. Thank you, we love to eat. Thank you very much. Next north korea pledges thousandfold revenge on the u. S. After voting unanimously to add more sanctions. And Rex Tillerson is in the philippines for the asiapacific summit. Hey, is this our turn . Honey. Our turn . Yeah, we go left right here. woman vo Great Adventures are still out there. Well find them in our Subaru Outback. avo love. 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The military unit was in australian as part of a joint military exercise. North korea lashes out at the u. N. Today for new sanctions. North koreans foreign minister says they are ready to give the United States a severe lesson with Nuclear Force if military action is taken president they also blamed it on a heinous u. S. Plot to isolate and stifle north korea. Rex tillerson at that summit says the new sanctions shows that the world is united in condemning the worlds recent missile test and laid out what they must do for the u. S. To agree to talks. The best signal that north korea could give to us is to stop the missile launches and they can demonstrate theyre willing to stit with a spirit of finding a way forward in these talks by no longer conducting these missile tests. Since the beginning of the year, kim jongun and his regime have conducted 14 missile tests, so is this latest round of sanctio sanctions what will stop them. North korea had an Unusual International stage at this summit to parade some of its usual threats. But obviously the crisis growing in intensity, not just with north koreas long range missile tests, but also with that package of sanctions that the u. N. Agreed unanimously at the weekend hitting north koreas economy. The north Korean Foreign minister had a group of 25 other Foreign Ministers here from russia, from china, from japan, and from south korea to make those threats. Threatening retaliation against the united nations. He made the very direct threats against the United States saying north korea is ready to give the usa a severe lesson if they take military action. There is always an if there in that threat. He also said we will never put our Nuclear Missiles or long range missiles on the negotiabling table. That is what these talks, this summit, has been all about. President trump had a very lengthy one hour telephone call with south koreas president moon. They agree to put maximum pressure on the north, and president moon saying it is important to keep the door open for dialogue, katie. Bill, thank you very much. For more on north korea and the new u. N. Sanctions, lets go to wendy sherman, former under secretary of state for political affairs, also an nbc Global Affairs contributor. Start with the sanctions, how exactly are they different and how fast will we see an impact with them . This is a very serious and good accomplishment by the u. N. Security council driven by the United States of america. These are serious sanctions of north koreas 3 billion in exports. This attacks about a billion of that. A third of their export economy, they are very serious in sectors that are important like coal and iron ore. But it will take time because one, it always does, and two, these have to be enforced worldwide. The United States is always key to getting that enforcement by sending teams around the world to ensure they get enforced. By having our ambassadors going in at the highest level, to each of the countries in which they serve. To push for that enforcement, and the state department as you know does not have a full compliment of ambassadors or state departments. And that will slow down the process a little more. This was a serious accomplishment by ambassador nikki hailey. The sanctions are meant to strangle the financing going into their military operations and capabilities. Will they have a quick enough effect to stop the north koreros to potentially put a Nuclear Warhead over one of their icbms. Everything we can do to slow down their process is a positive thing. They made substantial process much to the surprise of some of the analysts over the world, and quite frankly, sanctions are not enough. We need to be using all of the tools in our tool box to move this forward. That is missile defense, military exercises, intelligence and cyber in ways that are appropriate. Public diplomacy. We have to use everything we have and as presidewas suggeste President Trump, we need a channel open so when they get serious about having real talks they can come to the table. Sanctions alone will not stop their program. Sanctions dont accomplish that. What sanctions are meant to do is sharpen the choice that north korea has. It can have Nuclear Weapons or have its regime. Hard to see how they can have both and survive. And i think what we heard from secretary tillerson is there is a path to serious conversation and to Economic Prosperity and security for your country, but its not this path. How essential are china and russia. There is questions how long they will abide by these sanctions. I think this is quite important. The comments at the foreign meeting were important. He basically said that north korea should not violate the norms set out here. They should not do further missile tests or launches. He said dialogue was important to have on the table as well. But this was a stern comment from the chinese, but well have to follow through and make sure the sanctions are enforced, like wise with russia. Russia does not want to see more with the korean peninsula. Diplomacy works best when there is a threat of force, but i urge the Trump Administration that we cant look ready to go to war, but that were willing to take is seriously when south korea and japan are already threatened by north korea and have been. We have hundreds of thousands of americans in south korea and japan, so we need to be very careful about the language and inadvertently finding ourselves at war. I want to ask you very quickly about Rex Tillerson. The New York Times