'As THIN SKINNED and narcissistic as they come': Nicolle CALLS OUT Trump for tirade against press

[0:01] we knocked out everything now some of the fake news would say oh we didn't do it fast enough [0:06] you're from abc you're fake news go ahead the fake news media treats me very very badly look at all [0:11] the fake news back there watch that's a lot of fake news the news the fake news has no credibility [0:17] you know who's joking a big game the fake news media hi again everybody it's now five o'clock [0:25] in the east as long as donald trump has been in the public eye donald trump has been obsessed with [0:31] how he's seen by the public and through that he sees himself and how he's covered by the press [0:39] as thin-skinned and narcissistic as they come donald trump is taking his decades-long war with [0:44] the first amendment to new lows today a battle that started with smearing journalists as enemies [0:49] of the people culminated over the weekend with a comical but dangerous war on the truth in the same [0:55] way donald trump is going after people who exposed his no big contracts and failed refurbishments of [1:01] the reflecting pool he's doing that now with the press who dare to cover the debacle with iran [1:07] accurately last night he went on a tirade against journalists at the new york times calling out a [1:13] news analysis piece with the title quote what changed after almost four months of war analysts say not [1:19] much here's a little bit of what is in that piece of reporting quote neither the war nor the agreement [1:26] ended what u.s and israeli officials regard as the main threats emanating from iran that country's [1:32] nuclear program while heavily damaged was not eliminated its fate punted to future negotiation [1:39] the same goes for its ballistic missiles which the deal does not address by saturday even the most [1:44] significant immediate result of the deal iran's reopening of the strait of hormuz which trump had [1:50] identified as essential seemed at risk end quote trump had his usual criticisms of that piece of [1:58] analysis by saying it was fake and corrupt but then went further than that accusing the new york times [2:05] of quote treason treason is a crime punishable by death and then said he would add this reporting to [2:12] his already existing lawsuit against the new york times now nothing that they reported in that segment [2:19] i read you has been disproven by the trump administration but what's on display here [2:23] is that facts don't matter to trump he's a man who only believes good things about him to be true [2:32] and anything else that is true about him must be a lie it's an extremely dangerous trait to have in [2:39] any human being that anyone's in a relationship with but absolutely absolutely unprecedented in any sort [2:48] of leader or public official because this is not a real estate deal that you can just you know change [2:54] the numbers on our new golf course opening or a party at mar-a-lago this is a war with another nation [3:02] 13 members of the u.s military have died more lives are at stake the global economy hangs in the balance [3:10] and a country's nuclear future will be determined it's why it's such a big deal it's why it's covered the [3:16] way it's covered accurately aggressively get hold on trump cares about it's how he looks [3:23] and the stories about the war with iran and controlling the narrative to make himself look [3:28] good not even clear what that means anymore with his own coalition turning so dramatically against the [3:34] war and trump couldn't care less what is actually true we mentioned in the last hour his public [3:41] declaration to his supporters it happened in the year 2017 he told them to ignore the truth and that [3:48] statement remains as significant and frightening today as it did when he first uttered it just [3:54] remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening i think the context there was [4:07] tariffs but you could now take that and lay it over tariffs and the war in iran and the reflecting pool [4:13] and the dead duck and on and on and on donald trump's ongoing war against the truth and why it matters to [4:19] every one of us is where we begin the hour some of our favorite experts and friends staff writer at [4:24] the atlantic tom nichols is here he's a professor emeritus of national security affairs at the u.s [4:30] naval college naval war college also joining us military analyst lieutenant general mark hurtling's [4:35] back he served as the commanding general of the u.s army in europe also joining us political analyst [4:41] former senator claire mccaskill is here claire i want to start with you and the political pushback [4:47] to someone so addicted to lies we've talked a lot about his coalition but i want to talk about the [4:53] other side uh for once because what seems interesting to me is that you have high level defections [5:00] from trump that show that this this strategy had a ceiling and a floor and i wonder what you think that [5:10] presents in terms of opportunities for the other side democrats and pro-democracy advocates and [5:15] independents and literally everybody else the 69 percent of americans who aren't approving of the [5:21] job trump's doing as president well it it all is very you know first of all it's exhausting um for [5:29] everyone and especially people who are paying close attention it's very exhausting uh the polling numbers [5:36] show that the majority of the country is rejecting his stilted version of the world his falsy false [5:44] information that he puts out on a daily basis and he is like in a hole and he can't quit digging so really [5:53] the democrats just need to keep stressing the things that people really care about and trump is kind of [6:00] making it worse every day um and i i i listen i read mark's article in the bulwark about the iran war and it is [6:12] so insightful uh and he's right we talk about asymmetrical warfare all the time and nobody knows [6:18] what it means this is a classic example of asymmetrical warfare and what he stresses in that article that's [6:25] so important that trump has done and what most americans don't realize he has done is the permanent damage [6:32] he has that iran the iran war has done to our relationships to our relationships with the good [6:39] guys and the way he has handled himself with putin and chi and kim jong-un this is all about hurting our [6:48] relationships with the good guys in the world hurting our standing that is where the most damage has been [6:55] done is mark did a brilliant job of pointing out in his article today and i certainly hope i know you guys [7:00] are going to talk about it but i had to get jump in there and praise it because i want everybody to [7:05] read it that is paying attention because it's incredibly important the things he talks about [7:11] it is a new world when it comes to military success because of the success of asymmetrical warfare [7:17] by putin in ukraine and interfering in elections and now with this debacle in iran um general hartling i'll [7:26] read from from um your piece which claire has set up perfectly for us um quote one thing is clear [7:31] most of america's adversaries have largely concluded that defeating the united states militarily is [7:37] unlikely because of that decades ago they began shifting the competition toward the very things [7:42] that make american power effective the defining lesson of modern asymmetric warfare may be that [7:48] america's adversaries have stopped trying to defeat us where we're strongest instead they seek to [7:53] weaken the relationships confidence cohesion institutions and even the government that amplifies american [8:00] power explain it's interesting i got my first uh swipe at this nicole back in 1998 when i was in the war [8:10] college the kind of place that tom teaches at and first i ought to say thank you to my uh to my missouri [8:17] former missouri senator and form and uh current only cardinal fan on ms now but we're the only two holding up [8:24] that particular banner but uh what i'd say is i got my first taste of this in china uh i was there in 1998 [8:32] we were at the chinese war college in nanjing and we asked them about what their operational exercise was [8:40] in the war college and the answer we got was they were uh portraying a re a brief take of desert storm [8:50] but they were playing the iraqis to defeat the americans and they were using methods uh that the [8:56] iraqis had not used uh in that particular conflict and what we've since come to know those as are [9:03] asymmetric approaches and it's the application of strategy tactics capabilities and methods to negate [9:10] an opponent's strength while exposing his weaknesses this is what we're seeing going on in iran right now [9:17] you know some people think asymmetric attacks are like the planes on 9 11 or the ieds in iraq and [9:24] afghanistan but this is a pretty large example of asymmetric warfare and it seems like people like [9:31] secretary hegseth the president don't value places like the war college where tom's taught for so many [9:38] years to talk about how military operations are evolving for the future and if we don't get it right [9:46] it's going to come back to haunt us you can have the greatest military in the world but if you don't [9:51] do the other things that our government needs to do you're going to be evaluated on how poor you are [9:58] as a nation and how you're not coming together and other nations are going to threaten you and [10:03] and in a world of complex threats it puts us in a really bad position