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Be an american. you have your choice a bunch of democrats who seem confused what country they want to be president of. a guy in a place like ohio, i was born in pennsylvania, my wife from wisconsin. you get into classic america, get out of new york city, get out of los angeles, and to some extent get out of washington and the rest of the country people are still very proud of america and they actually want a president who is proud of america. they are also watching and saying look what he is doing to the chinese on tariffs. he might like president xi but tougher than any president in modern ti...

The lens of an american politician and what an american politician would say about this president, not just democrats, but republicans as well privately have expressed similar angst over the president's policies and the way he conducts himself on the world stage. i mentioned iran and the tariffs before. even republicans have tried to rein in the president on tariffs and sort of constrain his authority to union laterally impose tariffs on our allies. >> we'll leave it there. hans nichols, we appreciate you hanging out. we expect the president to leave bedminster any moment for the white house. ...

That if you read it, it could really come from any democratic member of congress, for example. but i think what's notable in this context is not just that it's from a diplomat from our closest ally, the united kingdom, but it really reflects the international angst over the president's so-called america-first agenda. the two things that stood out to me were, of course, issues over iran. we saw this morning that iran said that they're going to start boosting their uranium enrichment. and the second thing are these tariffs and trade wars. there has before international angst over that as well, a...

That were mentioned in these cables, especially regarding tariffs and trade and how the united states is conducting diplomacy. one thing that reportedly the ambassador said was that this is like a disfunctional family when it comes to having an unpredictable trade decision. that's something members of congress are very concerned about privately and publicly more so with the democrats. >> there were so many things to glean from the memos, if you can believe them. molly mentioned one nugget right there, but also there are the parts about why the president decided not to bomb iran after all. do w...

I guess trump is always trump. he can never not be trump. he goes into this fraught situation, we're all on pins and needles, with no credibility, no knowledge of the region, applies he's not sure. >> and my overarching point, we have no idea what will happen next. in a weird way often trump's unpredictability or trumpiness of trump, leads you to firm conclusions, like on tariffs. you had the sense the tariff thing would all be kabuki and in the end he would not impose the tariff because he understood the economic costs of that. so he would threaten and claim victory when there was not a victo...