May tell the world about the current state of affairs in the west wing. The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant. Democrats are still stuck in an identity crisis. I think i was theville of a very broad assumption i was going to win. And neat candidates thoufl battle for the soul of the Democratic Party in virginia is taking center stage with the gubernatorial race. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd. Folks, its not a good sign when a yogi berra quote sums up the white house. What else can you say rather than its deja vu all over again . The chief of staffs job is on the line. Again. The russia probe is wreaking havoc. Again. The preds is tweeting absurdities and the white house is defending them. Again. Who the heck is steering this ship . Who knows . Where is the ship headed . We dont know. The president is literally tweeting jibberish about vfefe in the middle of the night a no one takes it down. Do you think people should be concern that had the president posted somewhat of an incoherent tweet last flight and the it then stayed up for hours . No. Why did it stay up so long . Is no one watching this . The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant. Blake. Blake. Blake. What is it . The defense is arguably just as lucid as the tweet itself and it dmenl straits the high wire staff apparently thinks they have to walk when it comes to defending this president. Seemingly no matter. What i mean, can you not just say, it was a typo . Who cares . And if its wednesday, theres another shoe about to drop on russia. Sources close the james comey say hes been cleared by special counsel next week. There is more staff chaos swirling. Multiple sources close to the administration have been saying that the president is seeking advice about potentially ousting chief of staff Reince Priebus. Weve been down this path before. He has emerged among insiders vying for the job. Co i kw what h. R. Mcmaster, penned this op ed today. It articulates a view of Foreign Policy you might call, some might call hunger games diplomacy. Check out this paragraph. Quote, the world is not a Global Community but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage. We bring to this forum unmaxed military, political, economic, cultural and moral strength. We embrace it. Whether he is the chief of staff or priebus or whoever, a staff change wont change trump. We could be stuck in did a gentlem, in deja vu over and over again. The author of the new book, a world in disarray. Does it get any more fitting than that . Welcome back to the show, sir. Good to take a break from my covfefe and join you. I want to start with that, i was struck by quote. I wasnt alone. I was struck by it for a number of reasons. The first being, i cannot believe either mcmaster or cohn would have articulated that individually a year ago. That comes across to me, the entire thing comes across as a break of american Foreign Policy and american views of the last 70 years. Is it not . To a large extent. It is fair enough to say theres not a great deal of International Community yet. That ought to be our goal build one. It is the only day well deal successfully with an array of global challenges, from terrorism to nonproliferation to climate change. Plus we have a large degree of community with our allies and the nature of an alliance is not hunger games day to day competition. We have some common interests when it comes the trade and dealing with common threats. The articulation of a world view, which quite honestly i have never heard before from anybody, its strange. Ill be generous. Speaking of generous, you have been very slow, a lot of other alums from republican administrations have been tougher on this president. Youve been, you have given him a lot of rope. And ive noticed you seem to lose patience as you were watching. Is that a fair analysis of watching it . I dont know if ive been slow but i feel every administration deserves some time to get up to speed. Ploorly the one because you had an awful lot of people who have never been involved in governing. They inherited an awfully tough inbox which is why i wrote the book i wrote. Ey began unilaterally yanking they will out of Pacific Partnership which is a mistake. The handling of this trip, particularly if europe, reinforced the idea what ought to be unconditional american support for allies had somehow grown conditional. Most recently, the United States basically saying, going to get out of paris climate agreement. These guys ought to love it. We can decide how much money we give to others. If this isnt the perfect model of what you might call sovereign multilateralism, i dont know what is. I dont understand it. I feel they are causing real cumulative cost to the world and to americas reputation in the world. And this is going to be lasting. I want to dive in on two topic thats you brought in. One is paris. What is the difference between sxars kyoto . What is the difference . Kyoto is where the world agreed what would be the overall targets. Individual countries were told what they had to do. This is a bottom up agreement. Each country sets its own goals. It would be if you said i want to give myself a b plus. You set your own goals for carbon emissions, how much money youll give. The world adds it up and thats the total effort. Each country decides what it will do. So you think it is easy to be in this agreement because you control so many facets of it. Other handle the trying to make a symbolic point, there is no reason to get out of this agreement. I would say the link between putting limits, what we do on emissions and economic growth, that limit has increasingly been busted. The United States can grow economically without increasing its dependence o fossil fuels. The other issue has to do with the middle eastern portion of the president s trip. There was a q and a with a long time Foreign Service officer at the state department that has been making the rounds. Let me play it for you. How do you characterize saudi arabias commitment to democracy . Do you believe that it is a barrier against extremism . I think what we say is that at this meeting, we were able to make significant progress with saudi and gcc partners. Obviously it was an exaggerated example there of somebody struggling to defend essentially how we deal with saudi arabia and whether we are promoting democracy or not versus, say, in iran, which on the one hand does embrace more democracy than saudi arabia does. And the twists and knots that ties us up in. Yeah. Beyond how painful that was to watch, i thought the trip to saudi arabia was odd in two ways. On it seemed to blame iran for a lot of terrorism going bouflt 90 of the terrorism comes out of sunni societies, al qaeda, isis and the rest. And second, there was very little emphasis on the sudden youies and others changing the way their society is run. Otherwise theyll continue to gentle rate recruits. You have all these underemployed, undereducated young men. Thats cannon fodder for iran and isis. Essentially we let saudi arabia off the sxhook thats a big mistake. Wed better be careful. Saudis have launched what could be their vietnam in yemen. I would say we dont want to sign up to any open ended saudiled sunni campaign against iran. Iran is a real country. Yes, theyre problematic. I get it totally. But 60 of the people just voted for rouhani and we ought to figure out a way to contain iran to push back, but also to bring about some evolution in iran. I dont think it is idealistic to say that in a generation or two, iran could be a very different country. It worked the soviet union. Theres no reason to think it cant work in iran. Your book is aworld in disarray. Always a pleasure having you come on and sharing your views. Nhl hillary just looked back at the 2016 election and why she lost. How much of the blame is she taking . I take respoibility for every decision i made but thats not why i lost. And packages. And its also a story about people. People who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams theyre handing us more than mail theyre handing us their business and while we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you manaits a series of is nsmart choices. And when you replace one meal or snack a day with glucerna made with carbsteady to help minimize blood sugar spikes you can really feel it. Glucerna. Everyday progress. I count on my dell small for tech advice. With one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. The president says hell be announcing his decision in the next few days about the paris agreement. Heres White House Press secretary sean spicer. When the president has a decision to make hell let people know. Ask yourself, is this all a trump tactic . It seems this comes straight from the pages of the art of deal. His 1987 memoir referenced his style of deal making. I aim very high and then i keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what im after. Sometimes i settle for less than i sought. But in most cases i still end up with what i want. First they are going to go rip nafta up. Then they were just starting a negotiation. Eventually they would say they made it better. Maybe thats the path theyll follow on the paris accords, too. Well to have wait until the ultimate decider decides. The point isont assume anything and dont be surprised if in 48 hours, well another decision in six months and see how it goes. In what ended up being a wide ranging review, Hillary Clinton told the recode conference in california, a media and tech gathering, why she believes she lost. She took some responsibility but she found many other reasons beyond her own performance as ll i take responsibility for every decision i made. But thats not why i lost. Im now the nominee of the Democratic Party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party. What do you mean nothing . I mean it was bankrupt, it was on the verge of insolve enlsy, within one hour of the access hollywood tapes being leaked, within one hour, the russians, lets say wikileaks, same thing, dumped the jon podesta emails. You know, the comey letter which was now we know, partly based on a false memo from the russians. He dump thats on me on october 28th. And i immediately start falling. Lets put this on the table. 3 million more votes than the other guy. I never said i was a perfect candidate and i never said i ran perfect campaigns. I dont know who is or did. At some point, it sort of bleeds over into mysogyny. Mrs. Clintons comments come at a time when the Democratic Party remain in addition bit of its own disarray. Theyre still analyzing and arguing over how they manage to lose. Who they are, what they represent, how to campaign in 2018 and 2020. By saying more than were better than trump. Plenty of democrats, Hillary Clinton remains the wronged standard bearer who was essentially cheated out of presidency. For others she is the last person they want to see out there as the face of the post 2016 Democratic Party. There in lies one of the divides. Lets bring in tonights panel. The form he rnc chair, and a national pitic report we are politico. Ruth, you were giving a lot of commentary as you were hearing highlights before the cameras turned on. Look, what i found striking about this is how much in the minutiae she is on the all the technical ways she believes she lost on the digital front. She has gone down the rabbit hole and she is still there. She is learning about bots and socks. She has been in chappaqua surrounded by folks, playmarina. She clearly is just as focused. Im not sure shes going full claire dangers out. She is backward looking and it might be therapeutic for her but i dont think it is therapeutic for the Democratic Party. The part that had me yelling at my tv was going to the mysogyny, particularly on the question, you didnt show this clip. But whether the Goldman Sachs speeches werent a problem. Men get paid for these speeches so why shouldnt a woman get paid too. The answer, fwhaus woman was about to be runng for president and it was a really d idea. You presided over a party that was also sort of fighting, frankly still fighting about who they are. Yeah. There was always a core that said, the candidates stunk. Get them out of here. And others said no, no, youre the problem. It is not an unfamiliar place for a party to be. No. In 2008, 2009. You had the mccain back lash. A lot of folks would say, this is why we lost. We didnt animal night a conservative, we did not nominate a conservative. This is where we are. So you come into this job with a new reality that you have these factions at war with each and blaming each other for what just happened. The problem is unlike mccain msnbc, lets take my leftover cash. She is still talking about it and reliving it. So it makes it harder for tom perez, the new chairman, to begin to pull those factions together. You have the whole song and dance with Bernie Sanders that went nowhere fast again. Trying pull the factions together. When she said the party was bankrupt when she took it oh. Who is she slapping . Shes slapping barack obama. Shes slapping debby wasserman schultz. It starts at the top. But you know, there is the chairman. But it also slams her campaign. When it is also her campaign. Shes not wrong snf. No. Shes not wrong. The dnc was incredibly poorly managed. Among the more destructive things that happened. I go to this mysogyny thing. How it is covered. Every conversation i think styles, are we underestimating the gender lens on how people are seeing this now in the rear view mirror . I will answer your question. I think she has two options. The first is to stop talking about it. The second would be to say i didnt campaign enough in the midwest. I didnt talk enough about domestic policy issues, economy and trade. The things donald trump happened to talk about. The issue of mysogyny. She was the most highly paid female speaker in the country, period. So i think it is misleading and, to cast herself as victim is misleading. You know, nyu did a study that put a man playing Hillary Clinton, a female playing donald trump, reentacted debates. The audience reaction demonstrated that she was perceived worse when a man reenacted her role and trump was perceived better when he was played by a woman. I think the argument doesnt wash. The one thing she never does talk about in these reviews, Bernie Sanders beat her in business business and michigan, in business business and michigan i thought it was flashing yellow. It trnld out to be flashing red light. Ty got a warning sign. They decided not to here it. They got warnings from others. Debby dingle talked about how she was twarng campaign. That attention needed to be paid here. I want to go back to mysogyny. It is impossible to tweeze out, we were talking about this earlier. Antifemale, and antiHillary Clinton, to the extent it existed. And to also feed in there people who were motivated and attracted to vote for Hillary Clinton because of her gender. So it is a really complex stew. She wants to see it thank you particular lens that i think is a little too filtered. In this case, this is a lens that the Trump Presidency is refocusing. In hindsight, there are a ton of women who viewed the 2016 election through the gender lens as strongly but maybe now do in hindsight. They probably do. I have a slightly different take. I think the mysogyny piece played a bigger sub text than people want to give it credit for. I think there are a lot of attitudes about how they view women in power and authority. And i dont think they view them very favorably. Take away her name. I think this country has very puritanical views of women. And particularly in terms of the roles they have outside the home and the roles in business and now in politics. At the end of the day, it is now peop look at a female candidate. And i think with that study about, how people kind of perceive women when you sort of neutralize it. When you put it in the full throttle gender, it is more of an issue. Chew on this and then ill to go break. She is now the Third Straight losing democratic nominee for president to not believe they truly lost. She doesnt believe she lost fair and square. John kerry to this day does not believe he lost fair and square. And we know john gore doesnt believe he lost fair and square. But the other two didnt talk about it as much. Ill go to break only. You are sticking around. Speaking of the the Democratic Party and its identity crisis, well get two views. How they should be talking on voters. New bikes arent selling guys. What are we gonna do . How about we pump more into promotions . Nah. What else . What if we hire more sales reps . Nah. What else . What if we digitize the whole supply chain . So people can customize their bike before they buy it. That worked better than expected. Ill dial it back. Yeah, dial it back. Just a little. Live business, powered by sap. When you run live, you run simple. Thithis is the new new york. E . Think again. We are building new airports all across the state. 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