us now from los angeles for analysis of this weekend's political news is special correspondent jeff greenfield. .>> jeff good to see you. >> h >> thompson: so earlier this week thett ter sphere exploded with kanye westhi said nices about the president. you say there is a connection with that and what's happening with north korea. exain. >> it m not sound at first blush to make sense but it is parti think of the whole overhang that that is dominated our political atmo reengt which is -- recently. try ballism. here is what i meanwe. now the pict two koreas doesn't mean it's a done deale we know in ast we have had deals where the united states has been actuarial -- charlie brown and north korea has been lucy with the footbapr. thident talking about fire and fewer -- fury had this thats got to be part ofhe president by his unconventional approach to bluster and diplo is there anyone on the antitrump side of the spectrum whos willing to say on this one, i think the president deserves some credit? the connection between celebrities you mentioned was,f any wordraise for the president draws this absol

newshour weekend special correspondent jeff greenfield is here with some perspecve. >> yes, i think you particularly see when it you see the changes in the personnel around the use.e ho one thing trump has been totally consistent about for decad is being ripped, we are being ripped off by foreigners, they archeitherring our lunn every trade deal and they are sending marauding bands of immigrants across our borders to do terrible things. w that is policy. so you have the idea of a trade war, which he says he can win easily coupled with the extremely hear tshc rheto about immigrants and now they are voting illegally all over cali threat is when you look at now who is surrounding the president, gary 0 cone, a free trader is gone as a key economic provider, replaced by larry kudlow who thinks tariffs are particularly, nationalists like rex tillerson as secretary of state, they are gone, replaced by john bolton and probably mike pompeo much more national lis stick in their approach, so the idea that we heard a couple of years ago at well the gwnups will restrain trump and put him on a more c

but, newshour weekend special correspondent jeff greenfield wonders if today's politicians haven't gone into more dangerous territory. >> repor r: it was just one line from senator bob dole's acceptance speech, more than 20 years ago, but it speaks volumes about where our politics is today. he was talking about the rentrast between himself and his rival,dent bill clinton. >> this is not the outlook of my opponent-- and he is my opponent, not my enemy. >> reporter: think about that for a minute. an "opponent" is someone you battle-- in an election, on a mmball field-- but with a understanding of the rules of the game, and a mutual willingness to abide by the outcome. >> he is my opponent, not my enemy. >> re"ter: but an "enemy" that's very different. an enemy is someone who poses a threat to your survival, someone to be fought "by any means necessary." and that's increasingly how americans have come to view those on the other side of the political divide. for instance, if your competitor is an "enemy," it makes perfect sense for you to not just defeat her, but to imprison her. >> lock he

jeff greenfield, am i wrong about this being what's so wrong about the trump era? >> i think i would add maybe a layer of complexity. remember that trump's belief about immigration, trump's belief about foreigners taking advantage of us and ripping us off and killing our buffalo or whatever he's into, that is at the core of trump's world set of beliefs. he has believed this for 30 years. so it's not just that "fox & friends" are sending out false information about anything in particular, they're hitting the note that most is likely to get trump riled up. there are those at fox that wouldn't come near this. it's not that he's just listening to fox, he's listening to the very source of misinformation that comes unmediated. it's not like any of those fox. so he may be the right or wrong person to respond to it viscerally. >> fox news' newsroom could have sent people to the border to find out what's really going on. instead they make it really scary and we see days and days of coverage. >> i think the rest of that headline, there was an episode stil of what are the peo

joining me now, emmy winner jeff greenfield. this was another of those topsy tur vy weeks.hing stunning, six months a year ago we wouldn't have believed to happen. >> it reminds us once again that the visceral power of visual images can sometimes just dominate what we think about the news. when we see president carter and sadat shaking hands. when ronald reagan and gorbechev. and those pictures, that picture of the two leaders of the koreas stepping over that concrete barrier, immediately, makes you think wow, something has changed. what has to happen is a kind of more sober remembrance that the presidents or leaders of the two koreas met 18 years ago. in some sense, what i'm saying is we do have to remember that in the past, american presidents have been been charlie brown and north korea has been lucy with the football. that picture should both encourage us, given what we thought might be happening a few months ago but remind us there's some serious stuff before we can actually celebrate a genuine change of -- permanent change in that peninsula. >> okay. and the biggest o