Trump ATTACKS Kaitlan Collins and CNN in unhinged press conference

[0:00] after a security scare earlier in the day that left members of the white house press corps [0:05] locked down inside the briefing room reporters were given just two minutes warning before donald [0:10] trump and his friend ufc president and ceo dana white appeared for a bizarre press conference [0:17] later in the day at 4 40 that afternoon over the next 35 minutes the president of the united states [0:23] made one absurd statement after another including suggesting that we impeach the people who ran the [0:29] vietnam war a war that ended more than 50 years ago and whose leaders are now dead he said this [0:36] after he was asked about supporting pete hegseth even after articles of impeachment were introduced [0:42] against him what about impeaching the people that ran the vietnam war donald trump said apparently [0:48] thinking he was making a very compelling argument he also called a sitting member of congress a stone [0:53] cold loser and once again attacked cnn's kaylin collins calling her and her network losers because [1:00] he didn't like or want to answer her question he also told the journalists sitting right in front [1:04] of them that dana white would be an interesting press secretary then insinuated that there could [1:10] be one small issue white might actually beat the hell out of you he said that inside the room named [1:16] after james brady the press secretary who was seriously wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt [1:23] against ronald reagan he even went on to admit that he had lied to the american people when he posted [1:30] about wanting dana white to be his new white house press secretary in the first place he said he wasn't [1:36] seriously considering white for the job at the time he said he posted it because we were having a very bad [1:43] press day the president of the united states a position that once carried enormous weight and standing [1:50] around the world stood inside the white house and admitted that he lied to the american people [1:56] because he wanted attention and now we are all stuck living with the consequences in a world being [2:03] upended and destabilized by a president who does not seem to understand the gravity of the position [2:10] that he holds or the weight his words carry which begs the question what else would he say or do simply [2:17] because he doesn't like the news coverage he's getting while trump was spending the day with his [2:22] friend and embarrassing the country with his bizarre performance his administration and presidency were [2:28] continuing to fall apart all around him brett shoemate the head of the justice department's civil [2:34] division submitted his resignation yesterday making him the fourth senior justice department official [2:40] to resign since the crushing midterm elections according to cbs news his departure may be tied [2:47] to criticism from steven miller that shoemate was not aggressive enough in his defense of the [2:52] administration's legal agenda it is not normal to have people leave like this and his department [2:58] the civil division had already been struggling to recruit attorneys offering sign-up bonuses of [3:04] up to 25 000 just to fill positions that were emptying out faster than they could be replaced the kind [3:11] of people who would normally be in these positions have no doubt spent the last two years watching [3:17] what has been happening to those already working inside this administration as they get overruled attacked [3:23] and pushed aside it's hard to imagine anyone especially those who would normally want to work in the [3:30] civil division looking at everything happening inside this justice department and thinking this is where they [3:37] want to build their career there was even an interview released with cali means a former senior white [3:43] house advisor who worked closely with health secretary robert f kennedy jr on the make america healthy again [3:50] scam where he sat down with margaret brennan on cbs's face the nation means resigned from his position [3:57] late last month and what he described happening inside the white house makes everything we have been [4:02] watching unfold make even more sense in a very disturbing way when means was asked how decisions [4:08] were made inside the white house he said that trump often received what he called severe poor advice from [4:14] people who treated him like a baby in many respects and used him he also said that trump didn't always have [4:21] the full picture of what was happening saying they would block access to and information to him all the time [4:29] he said he wouldn't be surprised if staffers who bring trump complicated issues are having very [4:35] short conversations with him getting an okay whatever in response and then turning around and claiming [4:41] the president wants this in other words according to someone who worked inside his white house people [4:47] around the president were able to control what information reached him and then could be using his brief [4:53] responses to justify decisions that they wanted to make anyway we are seeing a further unraveling [5:00] of what political collapse often looks like from the inside the experienced officials leave and they [5:06] are replaced by unqualified loyalists for a president who went into his second term vowing not to make [5:12] the same personnel mistakes again because he blamed so many of the problems he faced during his first [5:19] presidency on the people who left his administration and later turned against him this week marks an even [5:26] larger failure and more trouble for donald trump it has been over two years since the night donald trump [5:34] was re-elected when so many of us knew this was going to get bad but maybe the thing that has been the [5:39] most surprising is maybe not the cruelty of his decisions or even the scale of the damage and how far [5:46] it has reached around the world maybe it's the mockery the sheer relentless mockery he has made of this [5:52] presidency and the white house and the spaces like what was once the rose garden or the entire east [5:59] wing that he tore down even the brady briefing room where the government is supposed to answer to the [6:04] people it serves to imagine back then that donald trump would one day use that space as a stage for a [6:10] ufc promoter to answer questions from the media while the president thought it was funny to tell a room [6:16] full of journalists that his friend might eat them up it's unimaginable we are continuing to watch a [6:24] presidency in free fall his secretary of defense facing an impeachment vote probably on veterans [6:31] day of all days department officials leaving his chief of staff abandoning him and being replaced by a [6:36] man that members of the president's own party have called the worst of all possible choices and then a [6:42] former member of his administration going on national television and telling the world that the [6:47] president is managed like a child by the people around him maybe the worst part is that this is [6:54] not going to get better desperate people do desperate things and donald trump has shown us over [6:59] and over again that he will do whatever he believes is necessary to hold on to power and possibly even [7:06] more importantly for him attention he wants to be the center of attention and will do any and all things [7:12] to get it the rallies where crowds cheered for him are gone and he is now resorting to bringing [7:18] his friends into the briefing room to recreate that feeling things never get better for trump the [7:24] people around him or the people in the country whenever he is president we have years now to fall [7:31] back on to see what he is capable of but that doesn't mean we give up as much as he has shown us [7:37] about who he is we have learned just as much about ourselves there are more people finally seeing [7:44] through all of his propaganda just this past weekend i had a conversation with a trump holdout although [7:51] they still believe much of the propaganda that he has pushed they also said that the election results [7:56] were not surprising their words were nobody likes donald trump nobody that might be an exaggeration [8:02] because clearly people still do but what they meant was that in their circle of die-hard loyalists [8:08] the tide has turned people are sick of what he is doing and how he is doing it they are done with [8:14] this love of chaos and want someone capable and less consumed with himself to be in charge this is [8:21] the time for us to buckle down and really dig in where trump has created cracks with these people [8:26] they are vulnerable to either being swept back up by trump or brought over to the right side of history [8:33] we've already been fighting and resisting for years now we can finish this fight once and [8:38] for all we have two years to do it and if there's one thing that i know for sure about us it's this [8:44] we don't give up and we are not starting now and that is why i still have hope for america [8:50] and you should too thank you for being part of the resistance thank you for never giving up to support [8:55] our work please go to heatherdelaneyreese.com to learn more that takes you directly to my sub stack [9:00] where you can sign up to get an email version of this written every single night as soon as it's [9:06] published i also include a picture of the day and additional commentary along with the sources that [9:11] i use to create this content please also take a moment make sure you subscribe to my channel give [9:15] it a thumbs up turn on notifications hit the hype button if you see it and leave a comment we'd love [9:19] to hear from you and remember no matter how dark the days get i will be here every single day and [9:25] you and together we will always have hope for america i'll see you tomorrow [9:39] you