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Don't be our emissary in moscow. how do we process what we're seeing here or not seeing and hearing from the attorney general? >> the problem he creates for himself when he does this is a little bit of a credibility gap. on the one hand there's really this almost boyishly appealing i didn't lie to you, i wouldn't lie to you piece that he puts forth to his former colleagues and there has to be a part of you that wants to believe that he at least thinks that that's true. on the other hand, he engages in this sort of shifting story. there's really very little possibility of reconciling it. i like...

Clear is that donald trump does not speak the language of empathy. and, you know, we weren't in that car. we didn't hear the conversation, but obviously -- and by the way, i think the initial account should have been treated perhaps with some skepticism s. here you have the enter ak of the credibility gap and the empathy gap for this president particularly now that the mother is speaking out. it is incomprehensible that the president would have gone 12 days without commenting on this at a time when he was tweeting endlessel about the nfl. it's incomprehensible except in trump world for him the...

Lead if in fact that moral authority remains compromised. his comments on tuesday that erased his positive comments on monday started to compromise that moral authority that bee need the president to have for this nation to be the beacon of light to all mankind. >> we call upon you as a political analyst but as a historian. historically speaking, how do these factors like charlottesville impact how a country takes in a message from a president at times like this? >> it's very important. if you look at someone like lyndon johnson, by the end of his presidency, by 1967 and '68, he's having probl...

But it's clear the u.s. president is also facing a credibility gap, with 60% of americans saying they don't believe trump is trustworthy. they believe all or most of the official communications in the white house, compared to 30% who say they don't understand anything they hear by north korea. this proposal to drop the words climate change and call them weather extremes. this comes from a president who has consistently questioned the impact on rising global temperatures. but trump has also scrutinized them. it declared, u.s. by satellites

Policy issues but dealing with foreign leaders and dealing with our allies and enemies. >> i want to ask you, when you had just that number, david chalian, just believing, you know, what's coming out of the white house, you have it in the wall now, what does that say? mark says you could say we are in a crisis now but it's not like a big terrorist attack or something going on where we're in imminent danger, so to speak. if that does happen, god forbid it does, who is going to believe him? will the white house -- will he have any credibility? >> that's a huge danger. there's no doubt about that...