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And a fair number of americans will be offended. you have nod heard a big outcry from republicans over this. mostly silence from republican members of congress from republican senators. and silence from john bolton, the national security adviser who got thrown under the bus in the japan trip. >> what's with the iq thing. you have a great sense of humor about this thing. i share it. why would he pick out certain people with iq? it seems clinical. what's the point? >> he thinks joe biden would be a strong ox ponent in crucial places like pennsylvania and he is testing what kind of criticism, wha...

Bob corker has the effect of making everybody not talk about the substance of the discussion. >> i'll give you some observations from the heartland. i think there's a lot of people in this country that the president has appealed to who feel like they're made to feel like they're not smart on any given day by some jerk boss, hollywood, media, washington people. they make them feel like you're not smart enough. you're not good enough. and sometimes the president says things that they wish they could say, but they can't. and so on this iq thing when he says, you know, i'm smart. you know, i think...

Criticisms he made was the president says things in tweets which are not true and everybody knows it and the next day the president tweets out something which is not true as if to prove senator corker's point but jim acosta. joining us now is our panel. the idea the president was joking on the iq thing, i guess it's entirely within the realm of possibility, when you look back at the number of times the president has gone to that old chestnut of his amazingly huge iq, i mean he wasn't joking before when he kept -- he talks about going to an ivy league school and talks about how smart he is how ...

Down to his level. so when he did the little marco thing, remember how marco rubio overreacted and actually kind of debased himself, right? so we already saw corker -- i mean previous to the little thing, already starting to debase himself. this is what happened. people start getting pulled tiny -- into it. it does knock them off kilter. >> it has another effect which is distracting. if you look at this interview, which goes on quite a while. they talked -- forbes talked to the president for almost an hour. at one point he said there's not much time left for diplomacy for north korea. and a st...

Administration stall and that the president will overturn what he is saying publicly at any time. he said the president is not placing a premium on diplomacy. sort of laughing off the diplomatic solution at this point on twitter. and so the fact that he puts him down all the time and undercuts him with the iq thing is another matter. it really speaks to whether or not he has a job gym that he can do. and i think at this point his sevening in this position really looks futile. he's done all he can. a lot of people want him to stay in the job. i wonder how he can continue to do the job consider ...