with a very solid criticism a very pretty big one as usual coming from bill kristol it kikuyus is the idea of the quincy institute of is a promoting isolationism if so i mean i find that just absolutely absurd rethinking a failed foreign policy is not isolationism it's always the 1930s for bill kristol go ahead in oxford in oxford. here it's a case of same stuff different day from crystal i'm sorry to say. hey look this is a necessary point of view being put forward it has been put forward individually by a number of people and when you find people as disparate as rand paul and bernie sanders agreeing on american military foreign policy needed to take a backseat to american diplomatic foreign policy and i say that as a diplomat of 26 years experience with the u.s. foreign service then i think something good is blossoming here now if we're still worried about the koch brothers and show us you know half a 1000000 each that's that's a rounding error on their petty cash account sure they they're not deeply invested here but they're certainly making a point of investing and i think there's

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max max boot bill kristol george conway are no longer part of this party as we know it but i would say that nettie pelosi said very clearly in the midterm election run in your district run the values in your district and a lot of people won because they've they represented the values of their district there are people across this country who ran and who won in arizona and ohio and elsewhere because they represented their constituents so i don't i don't buy this that there's that everyone looks like the squad in the democratic party ok but let's go back go back to when something or i just whatever and jump in go ahead go ahead yeah. well one point remington made is you know people have been pushed out right max boot and george will for people who know them chose to leave the party and they're now independents people like bill kristol george conway who is married to cali and conway who is a white house adviser and myself people like us we spoke out against president trump when he was a candidate and we have not formally left the party we remain in the party and we remain republicans and

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bill kristol, is this a story about foreign policy or is this a story about donald trump? >> i think it's very unfortunate that the prime minister of israel buckled to donald trump. there are israeli members of the zril knesset. a lot of their views are not that different from these representatives. israel has a long tradition of welcoming such people when they don't agree with particular policies or what hostile to the state as a whole. i'm not saying whether these people are or not. it's an unfortunate thing for israel and the u.s./israel relationship. i think netanyahu in my opinion shouldn't have buckled. the interesting question is why did he. ron dermer is the ambassador to israel and very close to the prime minister of. he was his chief of staff and sent by here, the most sensitive diplomatic post for an israeli to occupy. he said a week or two ago look, we're going to welcome them. they're members of congress. it's important for us to do that. what happened? i don't think it was just a tweet. netanyahu is a very tough and savvy politician. if he watches trump, he's

i'm joined by bill kristol, a man with some republican experience. how are you? bill?od. what do you think about that scene in ohioen at con taft to washington? >> well, they're in recess here in washington which is yet another problem, right? there's various national crises and a sense of we need leadership and we're not going to get it from the president. seems to me if i was running either branch, i might try to reconvene for at least a few days to at least suggest that our representatives are trying to deal with these problems. i understand that at the pel doesn't think mcconnell will wi look a little futile. it is a real breakdown of the democratic process. we've taken it for granted now. we heard from chuck schum area cosmetic of minutes ago, i'm calling on leader mcconnell to bring up the bill. what kind of democracy is this? if one house passes a bill, the other house should put it through committee, bring it up. it can defeat it. it can amend it. it might not become law. there might be the votes to override. that's fine. but both on gun control, election secur

maybe it works now, but in a way it didn't work then. >> bill kristol, you thought character was goingcount in the republican primary in 2016. you thought character might count in the general election, and i think people had a problem with the character of both candidates and so everything was relative there. a character election or not? >> i think it's a trump election. i think democrats think, let's talk about trump for a minute, but then we're going to pivot to our wonderful new ideas about very complicated this much expansion of medicaid but not too much expansion. i mean, that's fine, but at the end of the day, all presidential incumbent re-elections are referenda on the incumbent. with trump it's ten times more that way. so i think they have to be responsible. they have to show that they're in touch with new issues and that they're not simply creatures of the backward looking, and so forth. i think a younger candidate honestly would be a stronger candidate than biden. if you could have a 20 year younger biden who was also moderate. but it is going to be about trump. they need to

bill kristol, i will ask you. you've worked inside a white house before. how would george h.w.h or george w. bush have dealt with a hurricane heading towards puerto rico? would they have said when will it ever end? >> they would have thought they were president of the united states and they would have made sure that the different parts of the government were well organized as much as they could. obviously george w. bush paid a price when some people thought fema was not well prepared for katrina in new orleans. so most presidents take governing seriously. most presidents take natural disasters seriously. they don't try to make political points out of it. they hope they'll get credit they handled it well. but in this case president trump is using it -- you know, he doesn't like puerto rico or puerto ricans. it's a little bit of an attempt to play to his base who think puerto rico is free loading off the rest of us and so forth. on twitter, revealing in a trump/pence email where they attack aoc and the usual suspects. there's something along the lines of, we need to -- we have to

conversation, editor in large for the news website the bulwark and msnbc dedicated analyst that would be bill kristolll, tell me, if you stripped away all of the personalities involved and the mooch and trump's reaction to it, the notion there are a bunch of trump officials who think the president is unstable would not surprise you, correct? so, therefore, do we take this seriously that scaramucci might do something with that, the trigger to get these people out or is he using his notoriety, what little there, to get on cable news? >> he did work for trump for 11 days and trump trusted him enough to try to bring him in as communications secretary or whatever it was. he's on the record saying trump shouldn't be re-elected, nominated, he's unstable and to say he's had discussions with other foreign cabinet secretaries. we've all had discussions with people in private that they don't want to say in public. the question is what if two, three serious people came out in a few months and said look, i'm not going to reveal private conversations with the president. i don't do that thing. i will not endorse an

the founding member of the party is failed magazine editor bill kristol who famously predicted this in 2003. >> whatever you can say about this war, -- >> it may be. >> it's not going to happen. >> parkhill. >> he scoffed at the notion of donald trump winning the presidency, the nomination in 2015. >> this trump thing is going on i gather and he's doing okay in the polls for a while but he's not going to be a nominee eith either. >> laura: and now he claims to be a trump mind reader. >> i think he sees bad economic news coming in bad political news coming and he's a demoralized guy. >> laura: hey bill, 19 your high for consumer confidence, you might want to revise your remarks. in case you forgot this is a guy who thought a national review columnist could be donald trump in the spring of 2016. he will do it all at the convention, it's going to be a big deal. and this was too much for tamika brezinski to take. >> >> he kept playing and this political land of make-believe. and then, there is kristol's buddy, brett stevens. he regularly dishes out the nastiest bile about the president and

the founding member of the party is failed magazine editor bill kristol who famously predicted this in 2003. >> whatever you can say aboutth, george bush is not fighting this like vietnam. whatever he fights, the whole history of vietnam. >> it may be. that's the danger of -- >> it is not going to happen. it is going to be a two-month war and not a years war. >> parkhill. >> he scoffed at the notion of donald trump winning the presidency, the nomination in 2015. >> this trump thing is going on i gather and he's doing okay in the polls for a while but he's not going to be a nominee ngeither.so we'll be fine. >> laura: and now he claims to be a trump mind reader. >> i think he sees bad economic news coming and bad political news coming and that he's a demoralized guy. >> laura: hey, bill, 19-year high for consumer confidence, you might want to revise your remarks. in case you forgot this is a guy who thought a national review columnist could beat donald trump in the spring of 2016. he will do it all at the convention, it's going to be a big deal. and this was too much for tamika brezinsk

bill kristol makes clear that you're appealing to him because you're the kind of guy who can punch thehetorically. why is that important, do you think? >> because trump's a bully and he's a coward. and the only way you beat a bully and you beat a coward is to expose them. is to punch them. donald trump's been a con man his whole life. again, for the life of me, john, i don't know why any other republican can't say this. it's got nothing to do with the debt and the deficits. that's a concern. it's got nothing to do with his bad, horrible tariffs. they are bad and horrible. he is a bad man who -- and we don't talk about this enough, john. millions and millions of american children every single day in this country are learning. they're paying attention. they're learning that it's okay to lie and be a bully and be cruel. the only way you primary donald trump and beat him is to expose him for the con man he is. and if i did it, john, that's what i'd do. i'd punch him every single day. >> you have called him a bad man among other things. he is in your words a bad man that you voted for. >> y

if only bill kristol is getting to you. can run up against someone who has that much. small but mighty. stranger things have happened in american politics. >> shannon: we have a reality start to upset the entire system as we know it. change the world, this political world here in d.c. and beyond in america. it shows that nearly four in ten people say if their candidate was to lose, they would question the fairness of the election. that is not good. when the american public is losing, and we see this with respect to congress, law enforcement, all kinds of things that have traditionally been a backbone and structure of the country. people now -- both sides saying they are worried about if their guy or gal doesn't win. they may not trust the results. >> america loves winners. if we don't win, there has to be some reason. hence why the trump administration is working with state-level secretaries to make sure ballots are secure and working and hopefully the democrats will come around and vote for voter i.d. so we actually know w

. >> i said to joe walsh i know you've been talking to bill kristol and joe conway, what advice did you only conservative who wants to run to the right who does have credentials in that conservative wing of the party. he said he's not running on issues, he's running on george -- excuse me, he's running on that donald trump is unfit to be president. >> right. >> so whether or not the economy -- >> right. >> -- goes up or down, that's not where the assessment is that you can have people listen to you about what the problem is with president trump. and that i think is what walsh when he is totally capable of giving as good as trump might get. so far, by the way, trump hasn't taken his tweet bait. >> that is interesting. although, congressman, i don't think there is any appetite really -- i mean, what is your assessment of the appetite within the republican party and republican primary voters for the determination the president is unfit for the office he holds? >> look, chris, we've seen the statistics. about 90% of republicans support this president. our politics have become extremely trib