>> let me know if part three changes -- >> let's see what you say, karoun. i'll let you know. >> look, the rally trump held in west virginia last week was in a way an answer to the approval ratings or disapproval ratings that came out that were not in his favor. he has throughout the campaign pointed to his large rallies and say forget what the polls say. no one believed it then, and it turned out he was right, he won the presidency although not the popular vote. this is what he takes stock in, pointing to the rallies and saying the report is support is strong out there. the quinnipiac poll, i believe it was last week, that showed not only his support among republicans had gone down but also among non-college educated white people had gone down. these are key parts of his base that everyone was tracking during the election as being as strong. if they're not as strong anymore, that's a problem for the president. also, you can see he's on the offensive when he puts that list out there, the job numbers are strong, and the military is strong, although some peopl

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. >> let's bring in cnn political analyst john avlon and karoun demirjian and cnn political commentatorouis. let's put up the graphic. here are the republicans who have called out the president by name, and by name matters, and calling this what it is matters. you see them there. john mccain started it going with marco rubio. senator graham came out yesterday about this. but the bigger number are those who are remaining silent. we contacted all 52 republican gop people, invited them on the show -- >> senators all of them. >> nothing. they didn't want to do it, even though the ceos have come out -- the irony that ceo have come out as the first line of moral rectitude. karoun demirjian, the president seems content to say i stand by my words and it's just the media that's coming after me. that's demonstrab strabbly falst we have seen a shyness to come out and exert leadership. >> those who have come out and call the president by name haven't been shy about it at all and they say there's a moral compulsion for everybody to do the same. you have not seen the rest of the party in droves do it

karoun, the russian efforts are of primary importance.ueller has his own jurisdiction to look into nefarious ties with trump staff and campaign people. these questions matter and that's why we keep watching the investigation. something else that matters is what's going on between the president and the gop, specifically the leadership. mcconnell came out yesterday and said no, no, no, the president and i are talking all the time, in constant communication. we're always working on the big shared agenda that we have and anybody else who says otherwise is clearly not part of the conversation. is that it? we were wrong, they're fine, everything is good? >> i think keeping up appearances has been a very big thing to for the gop right now with the president. there certainly are many frustrations bubbling under the surface. sometimes they come up to the surface. we've seen that play out. there is -- there is tension. there's tension we've seen between trump and the gop explode over things like the health care bill, certainly over the russia inves

we bring in cnn political an his karoun demirjian and todd gilman. karoun, you remember the president saying at the cabinet meeting north korea best not threaten the u.s. or fire and fury will rain down, so now this missile launch over japan, is that what threatens the u.s.? has that crossed some sort of red line? >> well it certainly is north korea expressing it will not be cowed by the president's warnings basically. trump has been saying that he thinks that north korea's been hearing him loud and clear and respecting the fact the united states will act fiercely and won't back down but we've seen north korea with the missile test launches and with the launches basically saying okay, it may not be one of those missiles, may not be inching close to the united states but it's scaring our allies right now and that is a significant thing, and then in addition to what will was reporting about where they launched this from it's a warning that basically this is not going to be clean and easy for the united states and they're not scared. so it doesn't neces

. >> also, remember what we're talking about here, karoun. when we talk about health care, there are millions and millions of people who are affected by these policy things that's going to get people angry on different sides. you're talking about tax structure, talking about foreign affairs they matter. there are a few things that are as uniquely dangerous as playing with hate. i'll tell you last night when i was considering the situation what we're seeing from gop lawmakers, thousands of people including people who voted for president trump, who were just aghast at what he didn't say when the moment demanded it and i went back to this book from david mccullough, one of our famous historians. during the mccarthy period in this country the senator who stepped up doesn't get a lot of credit. it was a female republican senator named margaret chase smith and she said something i think that bears reminding today, that she didn't want to see her party falling prey to the four horses of columnae, disparageme disparagement, fear, ignorance, bigotry a

let's bring back john avlon, karo karoun demirjian and cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. >> got phil smiling. you know it's a good line if you get that sour puss smiling. >> as funny as the john lovitz retake is, phone call in person, who cares? what's the distinction? >> i think the distinction is the white house got to admit things out of the president's mouth are not true. if he's lying about something small, that's an indication of where we are with this presidency. it's the canary in the coal mine. these comments line up with a pattern the president has which is saying people have been coming up to me and saying at very high levels that it was the gl greatest speech ever given. of course, that strains cred utility. people are coming and talking about personal angers. everyone talking about john podesta's e-mails. the greatest speech ever given. you've got lying about small things and a fluff rate that doesn't rise to the level of reality. >> what the president used to refer to, karoun, a truth. hyperbole. in "the art of the deal" he wrote or somebody wrote with him, people

let's bring in cnn political analyst john avlon and karoun demirjian, and cnn's ron brownstein. we learned the president will speak about charlottesville later today. if he does choose to call out the racists, even like his own vice president has and his daughter has, white supremacists, kkk, neo nazis, is it too late? do you judge someone by what they say first? >> i'd say it's better late than never. >> you just heard the mayor say he had his moment and he whiffed. >> and he did. to not call out neo nazis and the kkk and instead to try to broaden the criticism with a moral equivalence that even neo nazi sites took as validation of their perspective. there's a larger problem here that i think the president needs to take ownership of the he wants to be leader of the nation rather than leader of a political faction, normally the way we've seen these works, we saw it the militia movement gets energy from democrats when they feel in opposition. what's stunning about what's hang now is these numbers are rising now with a republican president who some of them feel have empowered them

what karoun said is 100% right about john kelly.e does have relative full authority at the moment. the issue is that the one person who is his boss, the one person that he reports to is named donald trump, and if past is prologue, donald trump will go along, listen to his advice, might be a week, a month, might be six months but donald trump will return to being donald trump. he's a 71-year-old man. he's had a lot of success in his life. he is into chaos. he is into the infighting. he is into managing his own message and his own brand. if someone exists, if john kelly can manage donald trump, that would make the first person in donald trump's entire life, who has been able to do that. it is possible. >> 25 minutes into the show, no tweets from the president and maybe that's an early indication that the general made a suggestion and it's being upheld thus far. >> chris, i remember when the president was on his european trip that this last one, and he was relatively calm twitter wise, basically tweeting out hey, i gave the speech toda

. >> and karoun if president trump were a traditional, conventional president, we could expect all thatomorrow. of course, he's not and doesn't often speak from the same script we've heard over the decades in situations like this what are we expecting to hear from him tomorrow? >> we'll see if he speaks. we'll see what he does in terms of his actions and how close he can even get to the flooding we've seen, pictures you've been showing of houston and other parts of texas. if he speaks off the cuff we may hear him say various pithy things. i think he will keep the subject matter to the flooding, to the hurricane as he is there. as we've seen on twitter the last few days it's not the only thing on his mind right now. he has other events scheduled where he will be talking about other issues. when he speaks about things like the wall in mexico or, you know, hocking a book of one hifs campaign supporters, it makes it look less focused and he needs to maintain the focus on this issue, especially while he's there. all eyes will be on him and what he's going to do and say. and it's a serious mo

we bring by chris cillizza, john avlon, karoun demirjian.re's no question the top of that speech was not necessarily to sell the plan in afghanistan. >> not at all. >> obviously somebody's gotten to the president and say we know you doubled and tripled down but you are wrong and people aren't with you and you can't draw moral equivalence between the kkk and people fighting against them so let's do this, and he did it last night. what is its net effect? >> look, donald trump is a believer mostly in polling, and a poll came out yesterday "the washington post"/abc news that had his approval in the way he handled charlottesville at 28% and the disapproval at 56%. man, your graphics people are good. so the point here being, it is pretty clear how it went over, no matter what donald trump thinks. these were words that he said. now, are they words that he believes? his candidacy in the first six months of his presidency would not bear out that donald trump is the what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding candidate, right? he is someone w

. >> so, karoun, you are so wired down there in d.c. the question that's plaguing is why did the president arrive at the conclusion to soft pedal what happened there and avoid the names? who told him that? we keep hearing he met with a lot of advisers. we had another conversation that was not a demonstration of us at our best. simone sanders coming after ken cucinelli, painting people around the president, specifically steve bannon, with a brush of sympathy for these people. we make choices about what we emphasize and what we don't. how did the president arrive at this conclusion to -- this was intentional. >> we reported that early on, you know, before the president had fully seen what had happened he had been told that a lot of different groups were coming to charlottesville and some of his advisers were speculating maybe that colored his thinking. the thing is that he spoke after these things happened, after what he had seen had happened, the violence that occurred, this driver, somebody is dead. also, remember, this isn't really hap

. >>> cnn political analyst karoun demirjian. great to have all of you here with us. karuon, let's talk about this apparent tragedy, ten missing u.s. sailors off the waters of singapore. last night, he was asked about this. questions were shouted at him from journalists and it seems as though he wasn't fully briefed. though, frankly, president trump never engaged in the political speak. i will take this under advisement. we're watching this very closely. he doesn't say things like that. is it conceivable that -- he repeatedly said that's too bad. that's too bad. is it conceivable that his advisers wouldn't have briefed him by 8:30 at that point last night? >> it doesn't necessarily mean that he knew what his response was going to be. as we've seen trump in various other situations, he says i like to have all the facts. granted he tweets before he has all the facts very often. in situations where he's expected to act presidential, we've seen this before, a dear in the headlights kind of thing and innocuous enough to him that end up not being innocuous to us because the

let's bring in cnn political director david chalian, cnn political analyst karoun demirjian and davidregory is back with us. david, we thought paul manafort was cooperating, and the news they raided his home looking for things now. >> look, this is an aggressive sign that's coming to light about who they're interested in and perhaps what they're interested in. we know who paul manafort is in this story, someone who had a financial relationship with russia because of the nature of the political work he was doing. so, if you're investigating financial contacts, potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia, you're going to be looking at paul manafort, looking at documents that may prove that relationship, and it may be an indication that these were documents that were not forthcoming, that he was not cooperating on some aspects of this. it always gets difficult to try to piece together these investigative elements and put it into a larger frame, but that's all we have to go on at the moment, that provides a strong indication of the financial nature of the investigation. >> a

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. >> karoun, as the storm was crashing into houston and rockport, the president was pardoning sheriff joe arpaio, this lightning rod of a figure. some of that obviously was eclipsed by the storm disaster. what's the fallout from this? >> he's been criticized be many critics for saying this is proof that he doesn't have respect for the judicial process, the constitution, et cetera. but it was a play for his base. the question is going to be, though, what errol and alex were just talking about, when looking back at the optics of all of this, because the optics do matter for the president, somewhat the time lean of events he's pursuing. is it going to look like he was using the impending hurricane as cover to make this move late on a friday night at a time when everyone is worried about preparation for the disaster response. i think that will help instruct whether the criticism which he's facing which is comprehensive and significant is wider and gets into the parts of his base that would scare him a little bit, from doing things like this again, repeating these sort of things in the fut