he was a better leader than president obama. he called a nato ally nasty. a woman, of course. he threatened to unleash isis fight orders two others. he offered russia back into the g-7, or g-8, if they wanted. he repeated that voting for a democrat would be disloyal of jewish people and he called himself the chosen one, discussing the china trade deal. and remember, he's the one who pro stroked tariff that's are suffocating our farmers. that's just foreign policy. that's about assessing just one day in the life of a leader who is asking to you keep anymore power. a taste of the walk and talk of a man who gets only 40% approval in foreign policy in the most recent polling. how did he fare today in your eyes? let me know. thank you for watching. cnn with d-lemon right now. >> it's only wednesday and i'm exhaust. i can't believe we have to sit here and discuss it as if it is a normal thing because it is not. and i wonder how many times he was in front of the mirror going, i'm the chosen one.

i'm -- when i get out there, i'll going to say time chosen one. i am the chosen one. he looked up when he said it. >> yeah. what frustrates me -- >> it's laughable. >> it's a laugh or cry thing, right? >> people who defend him say he's not a typical politician. he's just telling you how he feels. i don't believe that that is a good excuse. i think that it is a damning statement about the man who is the president of the united states. i do believe he's telling you what he thinks. i think he believes that jews are disloyal if they don't vote for him. i believe that he thinks only they should count his money as emin the past. he believes these things that feed division and bigotry. i think people are right. but i don't think that makes him a good a-political type of person. i think it makes him something you have to long at very

carefully and scrutinize through lens of, is this what you want to be your face to the world? >> two things. number one, that's a strategy. one that is not thought out. i think he's going to the fringes of whatever group to try the appeal to them talking about what happened with israel, moving the capital to jerusalem, on and on. i think he is appealing to the fringes and quite frankly, forward to 2020 and he's trying on build pup support. >> the way he's talking about them would not be helpful. fair full of ride and conviction. >> the other thing is that even among, except for the people out there on social media, who make up a very small group of people who go vote. they're just the louded voices out there. i think most people are exhausted. even his staunchest supporters are exhausted by his behavior.

and so you get out there. i've been calling it. you have chopper talk. you have that and he goe in front of the chopper and it's loud. if he doesn't want to follow up, he doesn't have to. he likes the sound of the chopper. it makes him feel more important and more urgent because the marine one is running behind him and he's off to some important business. it's so obvious. i got him down. i know exactly what he's doing. it is just transparent. i'm exhausted by this. even the people who supported him were among his staunkest supporters and by the way, people don't realize, you and i know people and have friends who are trump supporters. >> my family. >> sure. as much as we're tired of talking about it, and we have to because it is our job, we have to point out the absurdity. they are just as exhausted.

>> i have to tell you, it matters too much. and i don't find anything exhausting. i believe you have to be indefatiguable in this business. the idea that his defenders, what is getting tired is their rationale of trying to escape what he says and why he says it. i'm happy to have him on the show. the head of news max. >> i get it. i didn't want to hold this guy over his head. i'm here to get insights about the president. he took it on. the mode for a trump defender is, whatever you say is also true about you, or somebody else. and it is an unfair thing that isn't really true. it is fake news. he wound up getting himself into a bind saying that what this guy has said, this conspiracy theorist, i guess he's paying at news max, doesn't say those things but he does. that's what a trump defender does.

he didn't say it or mean it. it is true about you too. >> the internets, digital, video, it's all out there. >> i'm well aware. >> thank you, sir. fantastic show. see you soon. >> always a pleasure, d lemon. >> you as well, c lemon. this is cnn tonight. this is not politics as usual. this is not normal. it is not normal, people. i hope you don't think that it is normal. if you're frustrated and exhausted, most people are. how many times have i said this. this is the president of the united states running amok. it is constant. everything. all of it. everything. raising serious questions about his fitness for office. all of it. the volume of what this president has said and tweeted just in the past 24 hours puts us in danger of being

overwhelmed. in danger of forgetting just how wrong. how bad for the country a lot of this is. it start this morning with a retweet of a conservative conspiracy theorist. who said trump was, and i'm quoting here, like the kick of israel and the second coming of god. and this president who never heard praise that he didn't like, retweets that saying thank you for the very nice words. the king of israel. the second coming of god. that's from wayne allen root who has a history of promoting dangerous conspiracy theories like falsely claiming the deadly mass shooting in las vegas was, these are his words, clearly a coordinated muslim terror attack. falsely claiming that deadly violence in charlottesville was likely staged by paid actors, hired by george soros.

and falsely claiming that former president barack obama was, quote, sent here to destroy this country. none of that is true. none of it. he retweeted it. none of it is true. all of it is outrageous. yet that's who this president retweets. because king of israel, second coming of god. and remember, it was then press secretary sean spicer who told us, remember, he will us that the president's tweets are official statements. all this president seems to care about is knocking down critics who said his statement yesterday, questioning the loyalty of jewish voters who support democrats was anti-semitic. the old anti-semitic charge of dual loyalty. and the president speaking on the south lawn doubled down today, making it very clear for anybody who was 100% certain,

that's exactly what he needs. he thinks american jewish voters who support democrats are disloyal to israel. >> in my opinion, you vote for a democrat. you're being very disloyal to jewish people and you're being very disloyal to israel. and only weak people would say anything other than that. >> i haven't heard anybody say that. just the opposite. i think if you vote for a democrat, you're very, very disloyal to israel and the jewish people. >> the president doubling down today on his feud with our nato ally. denmark. a feud that started with the country's prime minister, when the country's prime minister refused to sell greenland to him calling the idea absurd. the president abruptly canceling his vote to denmark. the "washington post" saying that he was using back to back

trips to europe and used the feud to get out of the denmark trip. in any case, the president blamed prime minister fredericksen for calling his idea absurd. >> i thought that the prime minister's statement that it was absurd, that it was an absurd idea, was nasty. i'm sorry. he called it absurd. >> he is refusing to go i know what the plan that he said was not number one on the burner. the president of the united states damaging our relationship with an ally over a petty slight. stig this. >> this is offensive. it is a slap in the face. and it is just not how you treat an ally that has been as good to us as denmark has been.

>> well, it's a way this president treats an ally. and in case you think he's not taking it all personally, he is. >> i thought it was not a nice statement. the way she blew me off. she's blowing off the united states and we've done a lot for denmark. we've done a lot. i know denmark well. i have many friends from denmark. many people from denmark that live in the united states. and we treat countries with respectful she shouldn't treat the united states that way by saying, what an, she said, absurd. that's not the right word to use. absurd. >> absurd. absurd. mr. president, absurd. she blew me off. i have friends from denmark. ♪ me, me, me it's all about me.

she blew me off. it's absurd. absurd. but back to what the president called the prime minister. nasty. where have we heard that before? >> what we want to do -- >> such a nasty -- >> nasty. >> it's his favorite insult. for anybody who crosses him. the former secretary of state hillary clinton, senators kamala harris, nancy pelosi, san juan mayor cruz. not to mention marco rubio, ted cruz, jeb bush. i only have two hours tonight so i won't go on. the list goes on and on. listen to what the president said about his feud with denmark. >> we can't treat the united states of america the way they treated us under president obama. >> interesting that he mentioned former president barack obama.

because guess who is going to denmark? president obama. a source telling cnn that he'll be traving there next month. maybe it is a coincidence that president trump canceled his trip. though he sure does seem to have his predecessor on his mind a lot. even repeating his nonsensical claim the 44th president was somehow outsmarted by vladimir putin. >> russia outsmarted president obama. they took over during his turn. not during mine. crimea. they took over crimea. we spend a lot of time talking about russia at those meetings. and they're not there. i think it would be a good thing if russia were there so we can speak directly. >> did you their reporter say, they're still there. why let them in now? didn't answer that. he kept going. he doesn't have an answer for it. outsmarted obama?

huh? i've said it before but if putin has outsmarted anybody, it is probably not president obama. the fact is, russia was kicked out of the then g-8. for annexing crime dlaflt russia is out to this day. he didn't answer the question. so if this president wants to answer russia back, even though russia hasn't done anything to deserve it, who got outsmarted? and then there is the president, what the president said today about his trade war with china. you know, the one hitting american farmers so hard the administration is paying them some $14.5 billion in aid? >> tim chosen one. somebody had to do it. so i'm taking on china. i'm taking on china on trade. and you know what? we're winning. >> well, the president might be joking there about being the

chosen one. how can we really tell? given he's already established for himself anyway that i alone can fix it. you have to wonder whether he forgot that. just last week, he backed down on new tariffs on china, pushing they will back until december. one of his economic advisers called that a christmas present to the nation. after his joke about being the chosen one, the president made another joke. he joked that an audience some of 25, to an audience some of 2,500 military veterans in louisville, kentucky, that he wanted to give himself a medal of honor. >> nothing like the medal of honor. i wanted one but they told me i don't qualify for it. i said can i give to it myself anyway? they said i don't think that's a good idea. >> now, look, that clearly was a joke. that was a joke. but let's remember, the medal of

honor is the united states highest military decoration. awarded to a member of the armed forces for gal anory and bravery and combat beyond the call of duty. gallantry and bravery. nothing for this president who never served in the military to joke about. that's just a sampling of what the president of the united states said today, everyone. you're caught up. joking about giving him a medal of honor, feuding with nato over a perceived slight, calling jewish american voters who support democrats disloyal to israel, retweeting the supporter who compared him to the king of israel and the second coming of god. like i said, there is nothing wrong with you. this is not normal. and it has to make you wonder about this president's fitness for office. john kasich is the former governor of ohio.

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look who is here. the former ohio governor, mr. john kasich. good evening, sir. >> you saw that the president is boasting he is the chosen one. he tweed comments, comparing a retweet and comparing him to the second coming of god. does it seem like he's may have gone more erratically than usual? >> i think it is why i didn't support him. back, you know, i sound like a broken record. maybe some times he's like a broken record. maybe we're all broken records. but the thing is, i didn't support him, and i didn't go to the convention. i didn't vote for him. and there were so many people upset with me. i'm looking at this poll. 84% of republicans support him. we're up to 14%. so i have 14% of people who may think that he was right in what i did. think about this thing with

greenland. at least he should have gone for iceland. nothing against greenland but iceland is a really great place to visit. my family went there. but think about this. they didn't want him to fight greenland. it is like something on saturday night live. >> if he isn't, what should happen? >> well, you know, what this gets down to is, i think, frankly, are the democrats going to pick somebody who can win? because it will probably be tough. maybe. they've got to pick somebody that will be for all this free stuff. people don't like that. they're going to lose their health insurance. they have to be very cognizant of that. these voters, many of whom voted for him over hillary. these are gettable people for the democrats. but they can't be out there going too hard on the left. because i think it hurts them. as people might say, look, i

don't like trump. i don't like what he's doing. i'm not for all that free stuff. that's what i hear. >> i'm hearing the same thing. i think it is a dilemma for the democrats. they want to animate the younger part of their base and maybe the people who are more on the progressive side. and the worries that they go with someone who is too safe. maybe a moderate. that they won't do that. the moderates won't come out if they pick someone too far left. and the people they can win over, the trump voters, people who voted for obama and then voted for trump, they're concerned. they won't vote for someone that they think, or has been cast as a socialist. i'm hearing the same thing. i think it is very smart. >> there are republicans. >> there are republicans, yes. >> who could go for a democrat in this case. >> this is a revision of something that happen. the labor department announcing that half a million fewer jobs

were created than originally reported in 2018 and early 2019. it has been a pretty good economy. but that will also have people taking a closer look at where things stand right now. don't you think? >> there a lot of talk. i guess we won't have a tax cut. no. we won't have one. then this trade thing is really hurting the country. hurting all the world. and you know, they know if the economy goes south, they have a huge problem. and i think they're very concerned about it. the revisions are typical when people are beginning to say, there's weakness in this economy. and when you take a look at the bond market and all that, these are signs that get people saying, you know, it's not great. now, we don't know when that

will change. but we've had the longest running positive effect on this economy really i think in modern history. it doesn't go on forever. when it ends, i don't know. the trade policies are certainly contributing to the gloomy outlo outlook. >> the deficit projection is now revised up. now predicting it will reach $1 trillion in 2020. two years earlier than previously thought. two years earlier. i know republicans don't care about deficits anymore. but that is not good. >> well, in '97, i worked with democrats and republicans, and we got the first balanced budget since we walked on the moon. we paid down the largest amount of debt in modern history of the public debt. we had great economic growth and we had surpluses. now, i said this to some people the other night at dinner.

and they thought i'd been drinking. then, wait a minute. when did that ever happen? think about this. a trillion dollars a year in debt. at some point, you have to pay it. it is a claim on our -- well, a claim on our kids' futures. grandchildren's futures. it's very, very serious. at some point we'll have to pay the piper. no two ways about it. a trillion dollars a year. you're right. republicans forgot about it. the democrats forgot about it. look, the difference between republicans and democrats is the republicans don't -- they spend like the democrats. they just feel guilty about it. >> democrats are using it this time to say that republicans don't care about it. >> so listen, you understand what i'm saying. your name keeps coming up about a possible challenge to president trump. word on the street is that you might be heading to new hampshire next month. come on, brother. what's going on? >> well, word on the street,

that's a pretty good word. i'm probably going to go to new hampshire and i'll deliver a speech. a two path speech. we need to be seeing this and going down into the ditch or can we be unified and lifted? and why i am a going to new hampshire? when i go to new hampshire, everything will go with twitter. i'll get a bigger message out about this is not the direction we should go. we don't have to settle for this. in terms of whether i'm running or not, that is a whole different issue. i just read these statistics. 84% of republicans support trump. if you don't have a path, you can't chime the mountain. we'll see. there is a way to go. at some point i'll have to make a final decision. but of course i'm going to new hampshire and i hope people had hear what i have to say. >> if there is a big announcement, or something, i'm sure you'll do it right on the show. john kasich. >> well, yeah. why don't you come to new hampshire. we can talk up there.

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what a today for this president. unloading on the reporters on the south lawn, calling for indefinite detention for undocumented parent and their

children and more i have some specific questions for you. overall, what is your response from this president? >> just more cruelty from someone who has visited so much of it on the american people. so these attacks on immigrants, the warnings of invasions, the krooflt putting kids in cages, separating from their parents, to learn today that they are changing the agreement which was intended to ensure that we have the welfare of those kids. first and foremost. to change it so they will be indefinitely detained with their parents. it is part of this larger attack on immigrants and hispanics.

one of the worst attacks we've seen in el paso, texas, 22 people killed. the conversations about buying greenland i think are to distract us from the horror show that is his presidency. from the farms lost in the midwest, thanks to his trade policy and tariffs when it comes to china. the u.s. steel jobs being lost and the fact that this economy is not working for millions of americans. it is that cruelty and it is the bizarre side hoe that is the real challenge. i'm confident the american people will replace donald trump so we can bring this divided country back together again and meet the real challenges that we have. >> first, guns. after backing away from background checks in recent days, the president made a number of conflicting statements about whether he supports him. let's listen and then you can respond. >> oh, i have an appetite for

background checks. we're working with republicans, with democrats. we have very strong background checks. we're dealing with republicans, with the nra, we're dealing with gun owners, we're dealing with everybody. and i think we'll have something hopefully meaningful. >> so he went on to say that he had sboen the nra's wayne lapierre, expressing concern that background would be a slippery slope. what do you think would happen? >> i think the president has been bought and paid for by the nra. if you really wanted to put an end to gun violence, he would have called the leaders of march for our lives who put out a very bold, ambitious, life saving proposal in addition to background checks. he calls for the ak-47 that was used and buying those weapons where they exist in our communities so they cannot be

used against us. that's where the real leadership is right now. when we get these passed into law, it will be these students. the moms who demand action. everybody but the nra and the politicians the president will not be saving any lives. we cannot count on him for leadership. it is the students and moms showing that leadership that we need. >> he spoke about el paso. your town, close to your heart. and the shooting that took 22 lives. >> when i went into the hospitals, the love for me, and me maybe is a representative of the country.

there were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor. you couldn't even walk on it. >> this comes, of course, after he previously bragged about crowd size at his el paso rally versus your el paso rally in february. what the president is saying, does that match what you're hearing in el paso? >> he is a sick man focusing the attention that others give him on whether or not he is loved versus helping a community that saw one of the worst mass shootings in american history to heal. people were injured in harsh part because president trump by warning of invasions and killers and laughing when somebody said shoot them when referring to immigrants, was responsible for this. that just shows how depraved this president is. and i'll tell you this. we talked to the folks at both

the hospitals where patients are being treated. they're still recovering from the shooting on august 3rd. not a single patient in care and recovery at those hospitals wanted to see the president. they had to bring people who had been released and folks from outside the hospitals in the community to greet the president. to satisfy his ego. but this community, el paso, texas, did not want to see him. we understand that he was in large part to blame for the shooting. the hatred, the racism, the gun violence that we see in this country. >> the president also says that he is considering an executive order to end birth right citizenship. what do you think? would that be unconstitutional? >> you asked me at the beginning what i think of the last 24 hours. it is such a blizzard of bizarre statements. and behavior unbecoming of any president. questioning the citizenship of our fellow americans.

i guess, based on their country of national origin or ethnicity or this race. the very idea that we can realize the promise of this country. that we are all created equal. and we can all from the planet come to this country and by our very presence make it a great country in the first place, is being destroyed on a daily and i guess over the last day, an hourly basis by this president. it is a dig notion to overturn the 14th amendment. it is racist on its face. he is trying to drive us apart. make us angry. and keep your eye off the wall which is the fact this economy is beginning to crater through his gross mismanagement. the trade war with china. the hacking of pay increase. taking away health care for those who depend on it in america, that's why he's talking about greenland and the 14th

amendment and continuing to visit these cruelties on our fellow americans. he doesn't want us to be able to come together. recognize his failures and overcome them by defeating them in november of 2020. >> arrest the mass shooting, you returned to your home town and you came out with a new strategy. what do you want to do differently? our new polls show you're polling at 3%. what do you think? >> the first place that i went to after spending nearly two weeks in el paso, following the shooting was jackson, mississippi. to visit small communities in that state that have been subject to the largest single state employment ice raid in the history of this country. nearly 700 people rounded up in the workplace. most of them, chicken processing plants. they are folks who have been

here 15, 20, on more years. raising the u.s. citizen children here in our country. working some of the toughest jobs, not committing crimes. not violent. not posing any threat. i went there because i want to go everywhere this president is terrifying or terrorizing our fellow americans. whenever he is pushing down, we are lifting up. to share the stories with the country. to make the case. to rewrite the immigration laws in our own image. in the image of el paso, i the image of canton, mississippi, in every community in this country of immigrants and asylum seekers. it feels so right. to follow that up by going to arkansas as we did, then to oklahoma, then to kansas, then on missouri before coming to eye waffle we have to show in a national campaign, everyone in this nation counts. and the only way to demonstrate

that is to show up and bring people in and ensure that no one is written off and nobody is taken for granted. i feel rae good about the way we're running this campaign and feel it will be borne out in the rest of the campaign into the first caucus. >> thank you so much for your time. i appreciate it. >> we've got some breaking news. washington democratic governor jay inslee says he is dropping out. he built his campaign around the central issue of combatting the climate crisis happening around the world. now that he has dropped out, there are 22 democrats in the race now. did you notice that president trump mentioned barack obama 20 times in 30 minutes today? what he said, why he said it, and if any of it was true. that's next. chair is just a chair.

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president trump addressing the media today and lashing out at his predecessor over and over and over again. watch. >> russia outsmarted president obama. russia totally outsmarted president obama. outsmarting president obama. obama was upset. totally outsamardo obama. obama was upset. obama had separation. >> president obama in 2014. so president obama. but it was president obama. >> president obama and others. >> president obama did that. joining me to discuss the many false claims today, the resident fact checker.

wow, very telling you don't talk to the united states like that, at least under me. when they treat president obama so badly in so many places. the philippines is one that comes to mind. that's different. >> so explain this. did the philippine government prevent barack obama from landing there. >>? no. this story is entirely fictional. the leader of the philippines is prone to outbursts. obama canceled a meeting with duterte. from that, somehow trump made it from duterte prevented a plane from landing that was in the air. that never happened. >> trump claimed this. >> tim one that kept the families together. you remember that, right?

now it gets even better. president obama and others brought the families apart. but i'm the one that kept the families together. >> this is false. >> this is false. there were of course some separations of parents and children under obama. but they were done under exceptional circumstances. it is trump who implemented the policy of routine separation with zero tolerance for people caught crossing the border. so yes, trump did eventually end that policy but it was his own policy. and he ended it after a furious public outcry. >> thank you for your time. i appreciate it. we'll be right back.

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cancelled his trip after the danish prime minister said it was absurd for him to want to buy grownland. he called her comments nasty and inappropriate. let's discuss. alice stewart's here as well as ana navarro. good evening to both of you. ana, welcome back. hope you had a great honeymoon. it's great to see you. so let's start. all the danish prime minister did was said the president's interests in buying greenland was absurd. why do you think the president takes that as such a personal insult? >> first of all, he loves to call women nasty, right? it's a woman he used about hillary clinton. he it's a word he used about kamala harris and now it's a word he's using about the prime minister of denmark. this is a guy who has to be in a fight with everybody. in the past 24 hours it's been the press, it's been scaramucci, it's been the squad, it's been the prime minister of denmark. i was hearing you at the beginning of the show with chris cuomo talking about how exhausting this is and talking about how this is not normal. no, don, finding a live frog in

your lettuce is not normal. what we are seeing is insane. it is lunacy. it is complete instability. alarming and it is scary. this is way beyond normal. it's nerve-racking. and i think, you know, i've been abroad for the last 17 days. you can't go to any country where somebody doesn't realize you're an american and immediately ask, have americans lost their minds? what the hell are you guys doing? this is scary. >> well, alice, i've got to ask you. listen, we don't need to play the sound bite. he has this history of calling women. we know it's there. he has this history of calling women nasty and what have you. why does the president use the word nasty when challenged by strong women? yes, he does it for men as well, but it seems he does it more for women. >> he does it equally across the board. for some reason he loves the word nasty. he's done it for many men, my

former boss ted cruz, marco rubio, lindsey graham, jeb bush, mitt romney, down the line. you remember the london mayor sadiq khan. he's used it across the board. the reality is he is one of those if someone is a challenger or confronts him and pushes back on him, he will punch back. look, i wish he would aim high. i wish he would talk nicer. i wish he would be best. that's unfortunately not his nature. we can all remember back in 2016 jeb bush said, donald trump, you cannot insult your way to the white house. well, he did and he will insult his way through the white house. he will insult his way out of the white house and the reality is people that support him, myself included, i don't like his tone and tenor. i don't like the way he talks. i don't like many of the things that he says, but his policies are the reason why he does have almost 90% approval rating from the gop. i wish he would knock it off. i wish he would be nicer. i wish he wouldn't be an equal opportunity offender with no

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this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. president trump not backing down in the face of criticism that he is pushing an anti-semitic trope. in fact, ramping up his divisive rhetoric today, claiming that jewish americans who vote for democrats are being disloyal to fellow jews and to the state of israel. much more on this just ahead. also today, the president trying to defend the state of the economy and his handling of it, especially his trade war with china. oddly insisting it's not his trade war, even though it is. also insisting that china should have been confronted years ago and saying this -- >> somebody had to do it. i am the chosen one. somebody had to do it. so i'm taking on china. i'm taking on china on trade. and you know what? we're winning. >> lots to discuss. philip bump is here, peter beinart, michael d'antonio.