I mean, he could sign his name to bills that pass the congress and im sure he could veto bills. Its not clear what else he would actually know how to do as president of the United States. But what he proved last night, proved beyond a reasonable doubt, proved on a decommissioned aircraft carrier, which is the closest he has ever been to military experience, what it proved there is that he absolutely could not assume the duties of being commander in chief of the armed forces of the United Statesf america. Last night was yet another test and donald trump failed. Shes got to get her act together. I dont think the guy is qualified to be president of the United States. The generals have been reduced to rubble. Every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed. He praised russians strong man. Republicans are just in a terrible delima trying to support totally unqualified nominee. Im not going to be the election commenting on all these little things. I have no sympathy for them. This is not your fath es eer republican party. What would Ronald Reagan say about a republican nominee who attacks americans generals and hes praised on russians president. Somehow the behavior at normal times we would consider completely normalized, people start thinking that we should be grading on a curve. It should never be forgotten that donald trump launched his political career with a lie. A lie about president obama. Theres a real question about the birth certificate. Theres a real question about the his own citizenship. That was a double lie. He lied about president obama being born outside the United States. And then he went on to tell more lies. He lied about sending people to hawaii to investigate them. Donald trump never sent anyone to hawaii because he knew there was nothing to investigate. No matter how many times donald trump was asked about what his investigators found in hawaii, he never ever answered that question. I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what theyre finding it. You have people now absolutely. In hawaii . Absolutely. And they cannot believe what theyre finding. Thats it. Thats the most that the pathological liar ever said. They cannot believe what theyre finding. Donald trump knows how not to answer a question, as he just showed you, for five years now hes refused to say a word about what his mythical detectives found in hawaii. And now that hes a president ial candidate, he refuses to say anything any more about president obamas birth. You dont talk about the birth certificate any more. Do you regret even bringing it up. I dont talk about it any more. Do you regret bringing it up back then . I told you, i dont talk about it any more. That was friday. Dont talk about it any more. Last nielght where the president matt lower asked donald trump about the only thing thats happened to donald trump in his 70 years on his earth that in any way resembles even a moment of the work of the commander in chief. You recently received two Intelligence Briefings. Yes, i did. Those two Intelligence Briefings are the only things that have ever occurred in Donald Trumps life that resemble what happens in the workday of a president. And what you just heard is all donald trump should have said publicly about those Intelligence Briefings. He should have said something to the effect, that yes i received those briefings but im not going to comment in any way on anything that was discussed in those briefings. He knows how not to comment, just ask him about the birth certificate these days and see what happens. He should have just shut matt off right there, but matt wasnt finished and donald trump foolishly followed where matt led him. Now, there are two things that can happen at a commander in chief forum. You can demonstrate that youre fit for the role of commander in chief, or you can demonstrate that you are unfit. And so matt, without angrily beating the candidate. In effect got the republican nominee to admit what to points have been saying about him, to plead guilty as charged by president obama and Hillary Clinton and the Republican Never Trump Movement and the long list of former republican Foreign Policy and defense officials who have accused donald trump of being unfit to be commander in chief. Donald trump didnt even struggle here. He just confessed. He just confessed that he cant be trusted with Intelligence Briefings, he cannot perform the role of commander in chief. Did anything in that briefing, without going into specifics, shock or alarm you . Yes very much so. Did you learn new things. First of all i have Great Respect for the people that gave us the briefings. They were terrible people. They were experts on different iraq, iran, russia. Yes, there was one thing that shocked me and it just seems to me that what they said, president obama and Hillary Clinton and john kerry, who was another total disaster, did exactly the opposite. Did you learn anything in that briefing, again, not going to specifics makes you reconsider some of the things you say you can handle . No. I did not learn anything from that standpoint. What i learned our leadership, barack obama, did not follow and our experts and when they call it intelligence, what our experts said to do. How . And i was very, very surprised in every instance. I have pretty good body language, i could tell they were not happy. Our leaders did not follow what they were recommending. As many of you saw last night at this hour, my first reaction to what donald trump said that he had crossed the line. But im not an intelligence professional. Hes the only person to have served as the head of e cia and nsa. He said i did intelligence off and on for almost four decades and i have never seen anything like this before, a political candidate has used professional Intelligence Officers briefing him in a totally not political setting to props to but tresz an argument and his Political Campaign and actually his political point was imputed to them. The i can read body Language Line was quite remarkable and there by mr. Trump created an alleged fakct that was useful fr him in the moment. I am confident director clapper sent senior professionals to this meeting and so i am equal michael, a former acting director was in charge of the daily briefings of the president during george w. Bushs administration he said this today. This is the first time i can remember a candidate for president doing a read out from an intelligence briefing, and its the first time a candidate has politicized their intelligence briefing, both of those are highly inappropriate and crossed a longstanding red line, respected by both parties. To me, this is just the most resent example that under scores that this guy is unfit to be commander in chief. Brief press conference this morning, Hillary Clinton said this. I think what he said was totally inappropriate and undisciplined. I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing that i receive. And today, president obama kept it simple on the other side of the Pacific Ocean in laos when he was asked about donald trump. I dont think the guy is qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he spea speaks, that opinion is confirmed. Joining us now, howard dean, former governor of vermont. Hes also msnbc political analyst. Senior editor from the atlantic. Howard dean, the forum was about, are you ready to be commander in chief . What i got on donald trump was a clear and convincing verdict that he is not. I think thats true. And i think thats widely shared. Michael haden is a pretty conservative hardline guy who served republican president s. For him to say what he said is pretty stunning. But its true. I actually think donald trump is just a crack pot, at this point. Hes a guy, hes very entertaining. He says outrageous things. The media loves him because he drives the ratings up. Hes a crack pot and he really has no business in this race at all. Lets listen to michael flynn, he was in those security briefings with donald trump. Lets listen to his reaction to what donald trump said last night. The intelligence that we receive received in the last two briefings were in stark contrast to what the policy decisions thats you coming up with that deduction, in the briefing did they look and say and look at him or this and this. They would say intelligence professionals, as they should, those are policy decisions, so donald trump, in a very very sophisticated way was asking tough questions and they would back off and say that is not our job, those are policy decisions, in this case, the white house is making. We would sit there and go, okay, we understand. David, from what did mike flynn just said, im not sure i understand it. Hes saying that they asked questions that were not at all to the purpose of of an intelligence briefing and they said those questions are not to the purpose of the briefing, going to the dentist and raising questions about the heart. The dentist is going to say, i do teeth. What is so dismaying, from the point of view of a republican and conservative, Rachel Maddow ended the last hour with reports of possible fifth north korean tests, big news today, looks like there are multiple Cash Payments to the iranians by the Obama Administration at the time of the release of release of deta deta detainees. American troops are there and it gets more grim. Theres a shooting war. Were theres a shooting war going on on the continent. The first great power shooting war since 1945. This administration is leaving behind a chaotic Foreign Policy situation. And the out party making the most of it. The idea instead of pointing to area after area of failure and being able to say this president with Vladimir Putin with strength, instead were sending him bouquets of flower, as if to say we talk about his ve rofero and cruelty. Those are not things to admire. Just to clarify, you mean the flowers that donald trump has sent to Vladimir Putin. Yes, the metaphorical flower. I dont agree with you. But i want to stay on this briefing for a moment. Nbc news has a report of what actually happened in the trump briefings, and it is as crazy as you could possibly imagine. Says a u. S. Official pointed out the Intelligence Officers dont give policy advice, so it would be inaccurate to say that obama failed to follow the advice, second u. S. Official says analysts are not to allow their body train and the report goes on to say this about what actually happened in the meeting. It said one of the advisers trump brought to the briefing, retired general mike flynn, whom we just saw, repeatedly interrupted the briefing with pointed questions, two sources said Chris Christie the new jersey governor and trump adviser verbally restrained chr christy, the other reporting he said calm down. Two other sources said Chris Christie touched his arm in an effort to get him to calm down and let the officials continue. And howard dean, eventually, Chris Christie and general flynn both denied that version of events today. But thats very strong reporting from nbc news about what was actually going on inside the briefing room. Well, i dont think mike flynn is probably playing with a full deck either. Im going to look into that i know some people who served with him. Im not going to share on msnbc or anyplace else. You know, i have e norm mouse respect for the military in this country. Their achievements have been extraordinary. Theyve served us really well. And these are adult thoughtful people who are careful about what they do and say. They have opinions, of course, but theyre really professionals and i flynn, i guess, i dont know him, but its something wrong with him and ive got to figure it out. I dont know how he served. I would like to know under what conditions he had to lead the service. Unfortunately thats not something im going to share with viewers when i do. Lets listen to something donald trump said last night. Hes said repeatedly in the iraq invasion, of course we should have gone in there to take the oil from iraq. Lets listen to this. If you really look at the aftermath of iraq, iran is going to be taking over iraq, theyve been doing it and its not a pretty picture. And i think you know because youve been watching me, i think, for a long time, ive always said, you shouldnt be there, if were going to be out, take the oil. If we would have taken the oil, you wouldnt have isis. Because isis forum with the power and wealth of that oil. How are we going to take the oil. We would leave a Certain Group behind and you would take various sections where they have the oil. David, from the field american of the american, field manual, before start of world war ii said that pillaging is absolutely forbidden. The 2015 law defense war of man new yule manual says the same thing. Seizing property is absolutely prohibited. That point donald trump has no idea that thats whats there. But he doesnt comprehend the strategic issue involve, either. The oil look, these are chickens or sheep that youre taking. These arent peoples pots and pans. What is involved he said hes giving us an idea what he means by this. What hes talking about is United States will take a large territory of ground and have to patrol the perimeter and within that make the massive infrastructure that it takes to produce this commodity. You dont put a straw in the ground. Its an information you put billions of dollars of u. S. Taxpayer, investment into iraq while patrolling that with tens of thousands of troops, i mean, why not just buy it. Why not just buy it. That would be cheaper. He said you would leave a Certain Group behind, not even identifying what that would be, total isis is on the rampage. Theyre taking shots at these oil and there are multi billion dollars investment. You have to have perimeter and fencing. At that point you minus well say, im talking from canada, canada would be delighted. The price is kind of low right now. They can go ahead as much as can take away. Weve got a break coming up, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Coming up. The republican nominee for president , republican nominee for president , thinks the undemocratically position dictator in effect, in russia, is doing a better job of governing and more responsible job of governing than the democratically elected president of the United States. Coming up, two seasoned professionals will join us real pros talking about whats happening in the swing states and what it means that the donald trump policy staff has completely quit the campaign because the campaign refuses to pay them, how is that going to help going into the debates . Its easy to love your laxative. When that lax loves your body back. Only miralax hydrates, eases, and softens to unblock naturally. 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He throws all of those things at donald trump, something that other interviewer has ever done. Donald trump doesnt say one word about any of those actions of Vladimir Putin, not one word. You think that day you become president of the United States hes going to change his mind on some of these key issues . Possibly. Its possible. I dont know, matt. If hes going to say great things about me, im going to say great things about him. Thats the rule. If he says great things about me, im going to say great things about him. Hitler should have been so lucky. Lindsey graham said his attitude towards putin reminds him reminds him of the way some people awarded adoll f hitler. I think this is the biggest calculation since people thought hitler was a good guy. Hes the author of the new book the making of donald trump tom nicholas, professor of National Security affairs at the u. S. Naval war college and senior contribu