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Presidential candidates says this is really no way to govern, it s impulsive and erratic. we have been through this before, talking tough and backing down here s what the president told chuck about iran on meet th i m not looking for war, and if there is it will be obliteration like you have never seen before. but i m not looking to do that. you can t havelo a nuclear weap. you want to talk good, otherwise you re going to have a bad economy for the next three years. obliteration like you have never seen blbefore. remember when hene threatened fe and fury against north korea, and thenst he said that he was love with kim jong un. i mean, empty threats, shah rude bargaining tool, what s going on here because it s not just one thing here. we re looking at mexico tariffs, something in the last several weeks, thing after thing after thing, threats, back down, threat back down. this early, my response has ....
Walk back the statements. i think the fact that his own party pushed back on this, he might see this is a step too far. it s important to note, of course, that next to mexico tariffs, another couple weeks, a week ago now, that those were also republicans speaking out against the president and saying, look, you ve gone a step too far. you re endangering the live i hoods of farmers and americans all over the country. you re endangering the democracy of america. we can t have foreign governments invited into the 2020 campaign, which is how a lot of people read the president s comments. i think it is telling, the white house, even though they re not saying he made a mistake here, it s something important to note that the president is walking it backwards. not something he does often. almost never. outside the immediate political sphere, what are you hearing? my national security sources, ....
The mexico tariffs. he is very much, you know, doing this sort of thing in how he was able to broker this deal with mexico with this big tariff threat saying this wouldn t have been done without me. yeah. i mean, it is classic trump. this is not going to change. he s going to keep saying it. it is still not entirely clear how how much the united states government actually got, that it wasn t already getting. he insists it happened. and he even insisted he had a secret deal on the piece of paper that he was referring to that he was impressed that the washington post could talk about it. got it and used the technology to figure out what he said on it. but, look, this is classic. actually it is classic politics to have a dispute and then claim victory. but this is the trumpy an ....
To any kind of promise he might have made about testing nukes. and so i think what the president is trying to do is play the good guy here to kim jong-un. so, look, this is the way spy craft works if. you ask me and i don t work for the cia but if you ask anybody who does, the fact that you could recruit kim jong-un s half brother is a big deal. as an asset. and for a president of the united states so say, no, i would never do that and i m that would never happen under me is kind of stunning. because one wishes it could. so i think today was confusing. and he didn t want to go into it. it is clear. he just said we re doing very well and he kind of smoothed that one right over, or tried to. right. waiting to see maybe perhaps what was in the letter and if there are guarantees for a third summit or not. dana bash, bringing you in in washington there to join this conversation. another piece of what he was asked about or he brought up, ....
Immigration, top of mind at the white house this weekend after reaching a deal to avert mexico tariffs. the president is pushing back against the new york times report titled mexico agreed to take border actions months before trump announced tariff deal. in a series of tweets, he s called it a false report. nbc news confirming most actions were previously agreed to in principle by t principle while the final details were expanded and solidified last week. meanwhile, house speaker nancy pelosi blasting the president in a statement saying threats and temper tantrums are no way to negotiate foreign policy. let s bring in democratic strategist don calloway, msnbc contributor adrie nne elrod, an amy tarkanian. amy, you re a long ways away, aren t you? not in your usual spot of las vegas. yes, i am. i m actually in tel aviv. pretty great. so don, to you first. how are americans going to ....