not talking about donald trump's ideology and whether i like it or not. i'm talking about how he has served by his white house chief of staff and if i were a donald trump voter i would be frustrated that he hasn't been able to get more done. obama was criticized by republicans and presumably by you for governing by executive order. well, that is the only thing that trumpo has been able to do. he hasn't been able to pass any legislation. the only bill that has gone through of any consequence was tax reform and only because he stayed 100 miles away from it. legislatively this white house has beenac the least accomplishd in modern history. if you look at bill clinton's first term or even jimmy carter's first term there is not even any comparison. they vastly are performed this way. so if i were a trump supporter i'd be looking at the white house and looking at the chief of staff and i'd be asking myself why isn't he delivering more? would you write in this new chapter ofs your book based on your interviews with the band and about to repeal and replace efforts

like i know donald trump. believe me, i have experienced working for state service for four years. -- 40 years. this guy is not going to accomplish anything because he does not have a clue on how it's done. it used to be that people who worked with state services moved up and then they went to the higher tier of government. today it's anybody. it doesn't depend on what experience they have or don't have. you are right on the money. host: mr. whipple, what do you think? guest: let me just say that one of the things that is not just donald trump -- one of the things that i've learned in researching this book is that you know how in hollywood they say, nobody knows anything. in washington, nobody learns anything. donald trump is not the first president to come in to office thinking that he was the smartest guy in the room and had all the answers. it has taken him longer than most presidents to figure out, if you ever figures out, that you have to do certain things to be able to govern effectively. it has happened

there is a huge change coming in this country, and many people, and i believe donald trump and many of followers believe that, many people want to change what is happening. i think donald trump has a nostalgic view of the united states. he wants to go back to 1965 were almost 85% of all people in this country were not hispanic whites. but we cannot go back to that nostalgic view of this country. there were 85% of the population non-hispanic whites. right now there are about 62%. in just about 30 years there's going to be less than 50%. so there's a fear i believe among many people in this country that what they understand is their country is being transformed. and the anti-immigrant sentiment that we are seeing right now has to do precisely with trying to change, to revert the we believe in the united states and revert that demographic change. with that kind of negotiation, as you know, , at some point donald trump has the possibility to take the daca for the dream act for a few most of his wall. i use small but would because as i said many times, almost 40% of all the undocumented imm

i have a judge who is a hater of donald trump. the judge who happens to be mexican which is great. >> let me try to be very honest with you. i don't know if donald trump is for races. but i know it's coming out of his mouth and this is what is coming out of his mouth. now that's what i'm saying these are not normal times. so here's a question for each one of you. if this happens, what should we do what should we do? and as a journalist it's been a dilemma force because we have a candidate making these remarks and how do we respond as journalists. my first responsibility is to report reality. if something is read i say it's red 17 people diocese 17. this most basic responsibility. if you watch the newscast and read what i write than that means we need to look at what i'm saying. there's another more important responsibility and that is to question those who are in power who give voice to the voices. if we don't do that is going to do it. sometimes you have to look at this and this is not easy to digest you looking at the violation o

the only way tax reform got through was keeping donald trump 100 miles away from it. i think that by any measure, this white house has been the most dysfunctional, least accomplished in modern history. donald trump is not the first president to come in to office full of hubris, thinking he had all the answers. most presidents get over that. most presidents figure out that there's a difference between campaigning, demonizing, and divided, and governing. donald trump still has a figure that out and i'm afraid general kelly has reinforced all of his worst partisan instincts. i think a lot of people expected more from general kelly frankly. host: larry in petersburg, illinois, independent. caller: good morning. good morning, mr. whipple. makei would just like to a comment. it seems that you are looking at this from a negative point of view and i would just like to let you know that people out here -- i know it's turned flyover states -- we elected president trump because we knew he would be different. we overlook some of his things that we might consider negative, but we're

. - and this book would have appeared without donald trump. - this book indeed would have appeared without donald trump, and as i say, donald trump being nominated and elected president became the poster boy for my argument about 500 years of american history. - but, inevitably kurt, you know that people will say well, this is a trump book. but trump is incidental. - and i'm happy to take advantage of that. - the road rose to meet you, as they say. - exactly, the mountain came to mohammed. - something. - perhaps that's an unfortunate trope in the case of donald trump. - he might not want mohammed, right. (laughing) - it was providence. - it was providence. and really what this book is about, and we'll talk in some specifics in a second about it, generally speaking, it is about our culture of delusion and self delusion which goes back many years. - right. - right. - and the americans defining a desire to believe and an insistence on believing in the unprovable and untrue of every variety. - yeah, the things that i took away from this book i kept trying to categorize, well, there's this piece of it, there's that p

i said mr. trump what you're saying is a lie. i did what any other journalist would have done. >> nobody would dunn so i wrote a letter to donald trump and then we send it to trump tower. the next day i was in my office and somebody came to my office and my phone started ringing. i started getting taxed and i thought something was wrong with the phone or the phone company. somebody told me trump published your cell phone number on instagram, my cell phone number. and many things happened. first i had to change my number which by the way i love my number. 1212 was so easy and when you're an immigrant like me whenever you call the phone company or the gas company or the water company or the cable company first you say jorge and it's a problem. if you are jorge you are in trouble because no one can pronounce it. or worse. i ended up being george and then after you go through these explanations that you are really jorge you end up with 1212. that number i really loved it and i got hundreds of tax and messages. some of them offending me and telling me to go back to my country and others asking, sending me songs and poems and asking for a

trump? >> i think that they are still with donald trump. i have a chapter about the bargain and they weren the merchant bankers who funded the varioushe projects. the family is still very much on board. everything you've read about me, don't believe, this is what i stand for a. they've supported to some of the radical ideas and you have other journalists at the new yorker and a factory who i've worked with on bloomberg who eliminated some of the very unusual far y right and crank candidates that they have supported. whether it was breitbart news, there was such a platform for pro- trump journalists and the propaganda during the campaign and helped hims win the electio. giving speeches and what he would call nationalists i really see as coming up the have and have-nots and using the racist base platform to excite people i would like to get your comment about is that a surprise and if it is and how do you see that having an effect within europe university liberal democracies and also impact on the united id states particularly in the run-up to

trump. i love donald trump but now that trump was on everybody's happy that guns are not going to go away and i don't want to buying anything so. we want to hear the traffickers side and the law enforcement officer has put us in touch with the mexican police informer this man used to work for the gulf cartel can you describe to me how the cartels operating the weapons trafficking from the us into mexico it's almost. you know sort of. you. know. what about the mexican security forces do they make a big effort to stop all of it. so. it was that was going to cause the world you know. and u.s. security simply has a different. as american border forces are more focused on drugs coming in than weapons going out traffickers have adapted their business model. official data about trafficking is hard to come by but some u.s. gun sellers have come to attention such as this super store chain called academies . it keeps coming up as a purchasing point of weapons that have been trafficked to mexico u.s. agencies are limited by law as to what data they can publish but in two thousand and eleven a spreadshee

>> i honestly believe that donald trump has a nostalgic view of the united states. wants to go back to 1965, where about 85% of the people were white. i think donald trump and his advisers and his followers, they are afraid of the direction that the u.s. is taking. there's a huge demographic revolution. in 2044, christiane, for instance, everyone is going to be a minority, whites, latinos, many people will be minorities and people don't want that. donald trump is promoting official racism from the white house. and what this means is that he wants to stop immigrants from latin america. he wants to have chain migration. it is really family reunification. here's my question. if melania trump was able to bring her parents through chain migration or family reunification, why not the rest of america? that's concerning to me. >> it's a question to us, there's no doubt. i want to ask you about the democrats as well who have also failed to do the constructive and right thing, or come up with some kind of immigration reform, as everybody's asking. you know, president trump ha

doesn't want more normal when i mean my son donald trump the behavior of all my family and my parents. because of pressure i left my village for college and afghan couple who names their son donald trump say they've been forced to move away from their hometown because of their fears backlash from neighbors and relatives. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me the king air and now our top story russia's defense ministry says rebel groups have been armed with chemical weapons in syria and are planning to stage false flag attacks as a pretext for the u.s. to carry out strikes. representatives of the russian armed forces have said they have intonation reason to believe that the united states it it's as based in syria has been preparing squads of rebels fighters to stage a chemical provocation a chemical weapons attack in the south of syria in doubt which borders jordan and israel they've been provided allegedly as when years twenty tons of nori this one is dead today this disguised as disguise this cigarette packs and this attack is imminent defense officials have said

remember sam nun berg is a man who has been hired, fired, rehired, refired and finally sued by donald trump. as i said, twilight zone. the truth. a lawsuit that was settled supposedly amicably in 2016. this man has a long history with donald trump and his campaign. you have to wonder, what does sam nun berg really know and what will he tell robert mueller? maybe he will cooperate and maybe he won't. let's discuss now. i want to bring in senior political analyst mark preston and kirstin powers of "usa today" and frank broony of the "new york times." frank, stunning. welcome, everyone, by the way. this is stunning. i don't think i'm far off by saying this is the twilight zone. this is bizarre. it's out of the ordinary. >> it's a spectacle i cannot recall. you said you are talking about the talk-a-thon. you have something longer than the godfather sag a but not as cohere coherent. you played those things that are extremely intriguing and you think what's behind them, but he contradicted himself. he said there was no collusion and this campaign was incapable of collusion because it's too incompetent

i don't expect, as i've said many times, any core believes in donald trump. the question is what are the core believes in the evangelicals. and even if they're saying that we're doing this as i agree with them, that for our bigger picture culture wars, which are based on their interpretation of morality, you know, right to choose, how do you then excuse what you call immortality? it's a walking contradiction. >> go ahead, real quick. >> i think nicolle is right on this. if this begins to be an embarrassment to melania who most people see as an innocent bystander, if she has the hillary clinton moment where she's wearing sunglasses and people think there is something puffy, she may have -- if she ever looks like she's been hurt, i think even some evangelicals, they like to tell themselves for all of these outside things he has been a relatively good husband and all these women are degraded women trying to bring him down. that may cause him some trouble. it may not cause him trouble at the ballot box, but it will cause republicans a problem if they're seen as an

i have done a lot of business with the russians. >> the most expensive home ever sold in america. >> back in 2008, trump made a record breaking deal with the russian oligarchs. >> he bought from donaldf a mansion two miles from palm beach florida. >> i sold it to a russian. >> mr. donald trump j. trump. >> he would reappear during the 2016 election. when according to mcclactchy news, his private plane was spotted in las vegas, nevada and north carolina. >> it looks suspicious that we have this oligarch bird dogging our president on the campaign trail. >> the pair never met. but, we still don't understand that until this day. >> what remains however is that this oligarch is hardly the only russian to have bolstered trump's bottom line. >> after his catastrophic collapse in 1991 that threatened his empire for good. trump spent most of the decades from

remember, sam nunberg is a man who has been hired, fired, rehired, refired and finally sued by donald trump. as i said, twilight zone, it's the truth. a lawsuit that was settled reportedly amicably in august of 2016. this is a man who has a long history with donald trump and his campaign. so, you have to wonder, what is sam nunberg really know and what will he tell robert mueller? maybe he'll cooperate, maybe he won't. let's discuss now. i want to bring in senior political analyst mark preston, powe powers, and "the new york times." >>> stunning. welcome, everyone. this is stunning. i don't think i'm far afield saying this is the twilight zone. this is bizarre and out of the ordinary. >> it's a kind of spectacle that i can't recall in recent politics, certainly in recent presidential administrations. i mean, you said you were talking about the talk-a-thon today. you string those together, you have something longer than the godfather but not as coherent. he said some things. you played them, that are extremely intriguing and you think what's behind them. but he also contradicted could be no collus

i didn't think donald trump was going to win until 10:00 p.m. on election night and it hit you like a vendor bolt. i think in reassessing how that happened what is most important to know about donald trump is he is an incredibly intuitive politician. when i was out on the campaign trail at stadium events when you experience them through the medium of cable television often the focus is on violent crowds and where they are racists they are i. what i saw these events was somebody who brought to mind almost one of these great american rhetoricians of the 1890s, william jennings bryan who could go out there day after day and you can see him testing things out seeing what resonate with the audience. i tell the story about the wall. it was an idea given to him by some of hiss advisers. he tried it out at an iowa event. has anyone heard of sam nunberg? he suddenly very famous. if he just gets himself out of jail. so sam came up with this idea and trump was initially cool to a buddy tried it out in iowa event and it brought down the house and trump reall

think is like a vague sense of toughness is what i think donald trump. we need to be tough. john bolton knows we need to be tough. i think we overthink when we say jeff is right in bolton versus trump. it's all feel. he's tough. i like tough. he's good on tv. i like good on tv. donald trump is not going through a checklist of his sr r various past policy decisions. >> and john dowd, his leading attorney, as a matter of practice, did not appear on television. trump didn't like that and he brings in joe digenova. whether that's good enough for a criminal defense operation, we'll see. >> look, he knows that we're talking about bolton this morning, about what his credentials are, so what does he tweet about? something else. here's what he just said. >> house intelligence committee votes to release final report findings. nobody one, no evidence of collusion. two, the post election response was in sufficient. three, clapper provided inconsistent testimony on media contacts. >> i love the attacking on obama administration for not responding forcefully enough to

i don't expect, as i've said many times, any core believes in donald trump. the question is what are the core believes in the evangelicals. and even if they're saying that we're doing this as i agree with them, that for our bigger picture culture wars, which are based on their interpretation of morality, you know, right to choose. how do you then excuse what you call immorality? it's a walking contradiction. >> go ahead, real quick. >> i think nicolle is right on this. if this begins to be an embarrassment to melania who most people see as an innocent bystander, if she has the hillary clinton moment where she's wearing sunglasses and people think there is something puffy, she may have -- if she ever looks like she's been hurt, i think even some evangelicals, they like to tell themselves for all of these outside things he has been a relatively good husband and all these women are degraded women trying to bring him down. that may cause him some trouble. it may not cause him trouble at the ballot box, but it will cause republicans a problem if it seems leak they

i campaigned with donald trump. i went to him in the mid western states.t's possible that it was his trade position that helped him crack through that blue win and win the states. a willed op -- a lot of voters a agree with donald trump. bernie sanders is in favor of the policy. responsible leadership is resisting the base impulses of your base and standing up to the horrible ideas people have instead of catering to them. and, you know, playing to their emotions in the face of all economic opinions of the contrary >>well, max, i'm saying this. you know, you and i people who understand the value of trade and the benefits of trade to workers, we better make a better choice than the american people. right now i don't think a lot of americans are with us. i saw paul the other day, the majority of americans support these. we have a sales job to do. >> i'm sure that's true. it doesn't let donald trump off the hook. >> yeah. let's leave it there. we saw the record low. it and now we've imposed steel tariffs. we're not losing jobs in manufacturing. we're gaining t

but last night karen mcdougal said that donald trump said, i love you, to her many, many times. donald trump was saying i love you to karen mcdougal just months after his third and current wife gave birth to his fifth child. and karen mcdougal says he often mentioned his first daughter, who was born to his first wife. >> did he ever compare you to any of his kids? >> you know, he -- he's very proud of ivanka. as he should be. i mean, she's a brilliant woman, she's beautiful. that's his daughter and he should be proud of her. he said i was beautiful like her. and, you know, you're a smart girl. there wasn't a lot of comparing, but there was some. i heard a lot about her, yeah. >> in a report in the wall street journal tonight, one white house official said, quote, never been this wild. don mcgahn is 49 going on 100. he gets home late every night as white house counsels do. he doesn't spend as much time as he should with his children, which is always true of white house counsels who have young children. but every other white house counsel has taken time away from their kids, in the

>> first i don't think anyone can out donald trump. t i think we are sitting here in 2018 and not 2020. and this is not about the president's ratings. this is about 2018 he may lose the house. i hope david would agree it's a tough slog. they can't put every one of these races, millions of dollars in time. you played that clip about chuck todd about what the president said. the president in 1999 was not a republican. he was part of the reform party. that gets to a big problem the republican party is having. he's almost running against his own party as much as anything else. we were watching in the green room, one television was on fox business news. i was watching lou dobbs. the graphic at the bottom said speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell are trying to get donald trump to change his position on tariffs. jesse: that's an interesting pints. david, the president was running against his own party to a certain extent. he did not have 100% support from his own party. he said negative things about bush and clinton and ronald reagan on trade. do

challenging task for any president, even one who really had his stuff together, donald trump has not shown much sign of that, so isk you, what do you think on the tweet that donald trump just sent out, you look at his behavior over the last nine months towards north korea and towards china, do you look at that and you say, hey, i see the grand chess strategy here or do you think, this guy is just completely winging it and god knows where we're going to end up? >> it's been all over the map. like you said, there's no coherent strategy here. we thought prior to him appointing john bolton with the north koreans possibly showing some concessions, wanting to sit down and meet, extending the offer of a meeting that maybe there was some hope here, that is the big wild card now. john bolton is on the record. he's got a lot of academic research, newspaper articles showing that he has such a hawkish stance here and has called for pre-emptively bombing the north koreans that there is really going to be an all or nothing demand most likely on our side of the table and how are the north koreans going to reabout to that especi

trump's background and he's policy i thought his policies the best and this made me call my son of. theirs i want to model for when i name my son donald trump the behavior of all my family and my parents because of pressure i left my village for a couple of my close friends also distanced those of us from the us they asked why did you name your son donald trump wasn't there any other name. but him or her horse honest and we are very happy to name our child after the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like donald trump as well i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i hope to see him as smart in mindful as doing and i will never change and i'm . moving on now to spain where protesters across the country have been out in force this saturday demanding better pensions one of the biggest marches you can see here took place in catalonia around thirty thousand there according to some estimates made their way through the streets of basra lona they're criticizing spain's ruling party for insufficient pension rises many have complained their low point two five percent increase last year isn't in line with the rate of i

i say that because donald trump campaigned saying, nobody else has figured out this korea problem so try different things and he's doing it. >> and i think many are surprised and encouraged and on both sides we've seen positive comments. regardless of the communication issues and with this administration we'll always have them. >> it is the normal. >> and i think it is a validation of trump putting pressure on north korea and leverage to -- to see if they change their mind. and the south korean national security visor said this is happening because of the leadership of trump and being tough on north korea. >> and the south koreans wants this and we have underplayed this. they are pushing this. >> i would like to take issue with the validation point. >> but i think the south koreans are pushing. >> sure. but -- president trump agreed if it happens to give north korea some -- something that north korea has long sought in exchange for what? in exchange for -- after they did conducted a whole bunch of tests that were alarming that they weren't supposed to conduct after they violated prev

women won't like donald trump. have i had that kind of a problem? i don't think so. night for a rough donald trump because the women won't come out. we got 52%. [applause] and i'm running against a woman.

trump landscape? >> no. i think it's pretty well understood even when donald trump was just running his organization and donald trump jr. was helping him do that, there was no decision made without donald trump's approval. >> i was just kidding. i mean, come on. >> can we make one other point? ivanka trump has the same problem that jared kushner has. she has -- she actually had a meeting in april, back in april with the president of china and the exact same day she had that meeting she had -- her company got three trademark approvals from china. >> right. thank you both. this was very interesting. >>> up next this nbc report with vladimir putin talking about the 13 russians indicted in the mueller probe. how does putin respond? and he is in it or is he out of it? we're going to try to figure out where donald trump actually landed after all the flip flops on the important issue of gun control. don't we need that cable box to watch tv? nope. don't we need to run? nope. it just explodes in a high pitched 'yeahhh.' yeahhh! try directv now for $10 a month for 3 months. no satellite needed. are you reluctant to eat

donald trump selling today. >> that's exactly right, nicolle. i think this is president trump trying to make a political play to the people he sees as his voters out in the country. he's been talking about this, trump has, for decades now, since well before that p presidential campaign about protectionism, about a really sort of nationalist, populist approach to trade. and he's finally enforcing it here as president. but there is strong opposition among republican leaders on capitol hill, even advisors in his own administration, including gary cohn who announced the other day he would be resigning as the top national economic advisor in the white house. and i don't know if you were watching the cabinet meeting earlier today, nicolle, but i was so struck by how president trump talked about how flexible this plan would be, how he would be able to add countries or drop countries or shift the number on the countries based on how he feels about that country at that moment. and it's just, you know, businesses like to have certain tiff. they like to have

i don't know. i'm not a lawyer myself. donald trump isn't either. nk this is just like the staffing changes that we're seeing. he wants to be in charge now. he wants to run everything. and we heard he might not have a chief of staff soon. i don't know that he minds that he doesn't have the professional legal help. i think he's winging it like everything else as alice said in his business and the white house. >> america a start-up. thank you all very much. i really appreciate it. with the revolving door at the white house, the stormy daniels saga, how is trump country feeling with the president right now? that's next. helped put a roof over the heads of hundreds of families, he's most proud of the one he's kept over his own. brand vo: get paid twice as fast with quickbooks smart invoicing. quickbooks. backing you. at a comfort inn with a glow taround them, so people watching will be like, "wow, maybe i'll glow too if i book direct at choicehotels.com." who glows? just say, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com. if you have moderate to s

theirs i wanted more and more from when i name my son donald trump behavior all my family and my parents change because of pressure i left my village for a couple of because france also distanced their status they asked where did you name your son donald trump was in there or any other name. but him or her of course one of them we are very happy to name our child after the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like donald trump i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i hope to see him as smart and mindful as doing and i will never change. the u.s. campaign against al qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan as we don't go into the past sixteen years it started on the george w. bush as part of the so-called war on terror the latest u.n. report on the country is a sobering one documenting over ten thousand civilian casualties last year alone speaking in the afghan capital this week the u.s. defense secretary said america is no longer seeking a military solution. all work he. would keep a record will be good but equal right there will be a military victory the victory wil

>> first i don't think anyone can out donald trump. t i think we are sitting here in 2018 and not 2020. and this is not about the president's ratings. this is about 2018 he may lose the house. i hope david would agree it's a tough slog. they can't put every one of these races, millions of dollars in time. you played that clip about chuck todd about what the president said. the president in 1999 was not a republican. he was part of the reform party. that gets to a big problem the republican party is having. he's almost running against his own party as much as anything else. we were watching in the green room, one television was on fox business news. i was watching lou dobbs. the graphic at the bottom said speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell are trying to get donald trump to change his position on tariffs. jesse: that's an interesting pints. david, the president was running against his own party to a certain extent. he did not have 100% support from his own party. he said negative things about bush and clinton and ronald reagan on trade. do

i don't think donald trump wanted to do this. but i agree it's a good step, it's a good move. but donald trump has been so bizarrely unwilling to criticize putin and the russians. he's much more willing to criticize your our allies like the u.k. you hear a lot of republicans, particularly in congress who wants him to be much tougher. i don't think it's in his dna. for some reason he likes them. >> in my deportation poll i didn't have the russians as first. >> democrats will always have the line about russians. i think there is always going to be an issue that will hang over the president. whatever he does with russia. some people will think it's perfect day ploam i and some people will think it's wrong. tom: republicans in the party are cite sizes him. vladimir putin is listening to donald trump and his words because he knows donald trump runs the country, not sarah huckabee sanders. or whoever writes the statements. donald trump sometimes contradicts his you aides. if he says something favorable to putin, then putin thinks he can keep doing this. tom: there is a lot of differe

there are no penalties if donald trump violates the agreement to keep everything secret. lawrence, iewing the agreement before we went on the air again. there's a telling line that may help explain why donald trump is so determined to shut down stormy daniels. the agreement to keep quiet his sexual proclivities and any alleged children and paternity information. wonder why that's in there. >> kurt we've identified those lines in the agreement here before. so stormy daniels's lawyer has said there are no paternity issues in this case, if that's true, you go to the question to donald trump, why do you have paternity issues in a confidentiality agreement? is that just something lifted from a previous confidentiality agreement and how many of these do you have, and how many confidentiality agreements do you have about paternity with how many women? >> and stephanie clifford's lawyer, who by the way is a far more impress and i'ive and seri lawyer than donald trump has acquired, it could be boiler plate. he says at least two of the six women that approached him have similar ndas to stormy

ronald reagan was a man of soaring rhetoric and sunny optimism and donald trump is neither, but what i think he did do that was similar was place his focus from the minute he came down the escalator in trump tower on them. he said, you're americans, you've been given a raw deal by the people in power. the people in power prefer foreigners over you and i'm going to make you great again and that will make america great again, and i think that's very similar to the sort of positive focus that reagan had and that reagan's boyhood idol franklin roosevelt happened. >> what do you think happened in that pennsylvania special election? 90% white. president trump won by 20 points. >> i think two things happened. one, there was a bad candidate. rick saccone apparently was not doing the things he needed to do on the ground and fund-raising that a normal candidate would need to do. but the fact is he would have lost badly -- he would have won with a much narrower margin even if he had been a good candidate, and i think part of what's going on is that the republican party is not consistently followi

odd the last of the last phone book before my son was born i was reading about donald trump's bag round and he's policy i thought his policies the best and this made me call my son after. the amount of money for when i named my son donald trump the behavior of all my family my parents changed because of pressure i left my village for a couple of my close friends who also distanced those of us from the us where did you name your son donald trump was in there or any other name. but him or her we are very happy to name our child after the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like donald trump i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i hope to see him as smart and mindful as doing and i will never change. the. oil the picture is a bleak one for little the u.s. campaign against al qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan has been going for the past sixteen years it started under george w. bush as part of the so-called war on terror the latest un report on the country is also a sobering one documenting over ten thousand civilian casualties last year alone speaking in the af

i think it does. w we kat robert mueller has been looking at donald trump's business dealings with russia, and is lookingcountries influential -- .nfluence jane: former vice president joe bidenet i g that involve threats and violence. what was that about? [laughter] heard donald trump talking about ld te him behind the gym ldd beat him up. do trump would not let that slide, so he tweyed that cr joe biden is talking like a toughe guy, but that is weak mentally and physically, and the he would go down hard and fast in a fight. ucthere is a little bit of easeme no going on here -- there is a little bit of machoness, but it d make you wonder. jane: why would he be engaging in tha anthony: we may get joe versus the volcano in 2020. [laughter] jane: anthony, thank you very much. quic at other news. syrian rebels and their families leavingthat had begun under an evacuation deal. the agreement could mark a major vancement in government efforts to secure the nearby capital. an inquiry of the death of russian nikolai -- he fled russia after being accused of frau due td.o atteasnd he court the day his body was disc

i think donald trump liked the idea of rex tillerson, exxon chairman, titan of industry, a guy no one saw coming, sort of an outsider. i think he liked the reality of him. the idea of tillerson was clearly not what donald trump imagined. they clashed repeatedly. tillerson seemed to think he had his own portfolio, his own space to operate in. trump didn't view it that way. the plus is you get someone who broadly speaking echoes what your beliefs are as relates to foreign policy and diplomacy. the minus is you fired someone via twitter and promising more first to come. there's a lot of turmoil and chaos, and i think donald trump welcomes that, believes he thrives in it. i don't think everyone likes it and believes they thrive in it. i think it makes it hard to do the everyday work of the government and the long-term strategic planning that's required to get a president who is, at best, in the low 40s, into a better place politically speaking before november or you're going to see more results like pennsylvania 18. if you see more results like pennsylvania 18, then democrats are winning

like i know donald trump. e me, i have experienced working for state service for four years. -- 40 years. this guy is not going to accomplish anything because he does not have a clue on how it's done. it used to be that people who worked with state services moved up and then they went to the higher tier of government. today it's anybody. it doesn't depend on what experience they have or don't have. you are right on the money. host: mr. whipple, what do you think? guest: let me just say that one of the things that is not just donald trump -- one of the things that i've learned in researching this book is that you know how in hollywood they say, nobody knows anything. in washington, nobody learns anything. donald trump is not the first president to come in to office thinking that he was the smartest guy in the room and had all the answers. it has taken him longer than most presidents to figure out, if you ever figures out, that you have to do certain things to be able to govern effectively. it has happened with s

donald trump is the news. part of reason the late night shows are all about donald trump is because the news is all about donald trump. the thing that i is fascinating, they focus more about process and chaos than the achievements. friday, 313 jobs, the expectation was 300,000. americans have a job because of the tax cuts and regulations this president has done. and we are only 14 months in. at some points the press will have a hard time making excuses for not covering the accomplishments of the president. >> the "new york times" almost begrudgingly said there will be more jobs. it was like they were upset about it. they talk about chaos in the white house. right? you are in the west wing. they have say nobody knows what's going on, this one left and that one left. what's it like when donald trump is in the west wing? there is any question about who is in charge and what the agenda is? >> no. not to mention that -- the thing i find fascinate being this whole discussion, as a voter and american. here is what i care about is results. i care about whether more americans are work and whether they are getting higher wages. whether our bord