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As a statement. i choose to believe it was not meant as a statement. but, it does speak -- it does -- >> she cares, it's just a jacket. she's a model. she knows the power of clothes. >> she does. the important thing is it does speak to the layers of theater this president deploys. one thing they're good at, this is probably conspiratorial, a split screen presidency. one screen for different audiences and one is what we saw at the rally, the other is the first lady making nice at the border. maybe the third message is her wearing the jacket on the way to the border. we're all obsessed with it f...
So certainly there will be a backlash here as well there should be. think about the surreal situation of our president making nice with north korea and then having a war of words and setting off a trade war with of all countries, canada which has done nothing hostile to us in its history except for maybe justin bieber. at the same time you have dan coats overseeing intelligence saying just on friday that russia's goal is to interfere in the midterm elections and to split the western alliance that transatlantic alliance. what does donald trump do the next day, he does his best to split the atla...
>> north korea dictator kim jong-un making nice ahead of the meeting with the president in singapore, one month from today. the charm offensive including the latest promise to invite journalists to see the dismantling of one nuclear site really to be trusted? presidential historian, doug wheat, and we could argue, will our approach, offering economic incentives for the north koreans do just that be trusted? we have a little bit more proof of that because we've done it with the likes of the japanese and the germans, so, we have a history of keeping our word, but what is your sense of this? >> y...
Also he wanted to meet the president personally in a separate kind of -- >> so, look, this is evidence of an attempt a perhaps by the russians to make contact with the trump campaign. and it is now the second -- at least the second known contact between donald trump jr. and somebody corrected to tcorrecte to the kremlin. but does that say anything other than the russians were interested in making nice with putin? you know, what is the evidence that takes to that next step that makes it suspicious? >> well, what we learned from sources familiar with the investigation by the fbi, which is on rus...