Donny Deutsch: ‘The President Is Tone Deaf’ on ISIS and Terrorism

SCARBOROUGH: “... for a week or so about how out of touch this president is with America, earlier on the issue of ISIS. Earlier I talked about how out of touch the Trump wing of the Republican party was with America. The numbers were 36 percent supported banning Muslims, even temporarily from the country. Sixty percent opposed it. Ask if Americans support the president’s handling of ISIS, this is just something for the White House to consider, the numbers are even lower. Thirty-four percent support the president’s handling of ISIS, 60 percent oppose the president’s handling of ISIS. And then only 28 percent think he’s clearly stated how we’re going to beat ISIS, 68 percent oppose.”
DEUTSCH: “I want to stay with those numbers and just throw a hypothesis out there. We’ve talked about the danger of Trump as far as he’s playing right into ISIS’ hands, correct?”
SCARBOROUGH: “Right.”
DEUTSCH: “As far as divisiveness in this country. We know that every time there’s an terrorist attack his numbers go up. If you’re ISIS what does that tell you. Tells you that you’re almost [indecipherable] right way — they want Trump in there. I want somebody to do some math. They want Trump in there.”
SCARBOROUGH: “But — but — what does that have to do with Barack Obama?”
DEUTSCH: “OK, I’m just, I’m drifting off because it’s kind of scary that the more terrorist attacks the better Trump does. They want him in there. You do your math.” [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “We’re talking about president of the United States not Donald Trump right now. We don’t have to talk about Donald Trump all the time. Let’s talk about the president.”
DEUTSCH: “OK. You’re correct. The president — look, the president —“ [crosstalk]”
SCARBOROUGH: “We talked about Donald Trump before, saying that the Muslims — that this ban Muslim deal was unpopular. I’m asking you, what does it say about a White House that the president’s handling of ISIS is more out of touch with Americans than Donald Trump wanting to ban Muslims.”
DEUTSCH: “It says, as somebody who’s been a supporter of the White House, they couldn’t be more off base here. And we all know that. I don’t think there is American —“ [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “Boy that was hard.”
DEUTSCH: “No. Both in terms of substance and style. [crosstalk] And that’s — once again, that’s where we need this.“
SCARBOROUGH: “Don’t you feel better now? Don’t you feel [indecipherable] that you spoke the truth?”
DEUTSCH: “No. I was not trying to [indecipherable] that, I was getting — [crosstalk] — it something hit me how scary it is that if I’m a terrorist —“ [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “You took a 25 minutes —“
DEUTSCH: “— and I’m watching that —“
SCARBOROUGH: “Maybe that’s way you’re on scripted television now.”
BRZEZINSKI : “Take the 25 minutes to make a point.”