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The big opportunities and changes around the corner. >> of course, the great challenges that face this country may lead to a renaissance later. >> well, i think thats true. look, were ten years away from the first moment in the history of the world when every human being is connected in a manmade system. which is to say the internet. that changes everything. how you identify who you are. you dont do it by geography anymore. you do it by affinity, who you connect to. it changes the nature of war,...

White house amounted to an endorsement of the philippine leader. trump risks giving dee dutertes actions an american stamp of approval. the president defended his decision saying in an interview, you know, he is very popular in the philippines. he has a very high approval rating in the philippines. spicer said improved relations with the philippines were needed because of u.s. interests in the region. >> it is an opportunity for us to work with countries in that region that can help play a role ...

Strongmen. these are people who have another thing in common. virtually all of them have tried to keep down the press and the judiciary, the most important checks and balances on their own power. thats not something we want to be giving support to either. again, it comes back to this, chris. yes, we have to work with all sorts of people, including people we find distasteful but the way you do it matters. >> it took me a few rounds but i finally got it out of tony there, and now ill bring it to y...

Democrats seized on the call saying an invitation to the white house amounted to an endorsement of the philippine leader. trump risks giving dee dutertes actions an american stamp of approval. the president defended his decision saying in an interview, you know, he is very popular in the philippines. he has a very high approval rating in the philippines. spicer said improved relations with the philippines were needed because of u.s. interests in the region. >> it is an opportunity for us to work...

From their homeland. this is history in a personal record defies the statement that he would have done anything to prevent the civil war. i think that is factually inaccurate on the part of this president but it does open up a conversation that maybe its time for us to have. the conversation is wrong. >> we know this president is a lot less red than the last two presidents, bush and obama. is he ignorant about history? >> certainly in this case. the gotcha moment is not the presidents affinity w...

Presidents affinity with andrew jackson. its the latter part of that exchange with salina where he says the civil war, why? people are asking why did this happen? im paraphrasing obviously. but people are not asking that. we know why the civil war happened. it happened because of slavery. the states fought a war over slavery. its almost, don, like hes learning american history on the job. a few weeks ago he said at a speech a lot of people dont know abraham linking was a republican. yes, they do...

It. i have written a column for tomorrow in which i go through the down sides. the basic question, is it useful in a period of high tension to hold up the possibility, there could be diplomacy. we have to concede thats not a bad thing. >> in fact, diplomacy was exactly what rex tillerson was suggesting when he talked about the possibility of conflict. >> precisely. they go in every direction. if you dont like the policy, wait a half hour and it will change. i agree. >> the other thing that was r...

Philippines. the effort to -- is part of a broader push to isolate north korea, a claim that left many experts on the region scratching their heads. it may be that it comes out of the presidents often expressed affinity for the authoritarian. >> trump tower manila is going to be something special. it wont be anything like it in the philippines and actually even going beyond the philippin philippines. this is going to be something that people love and that people respect as a structure. this serv...

>> that is a great story. so fascinating to watch and hear about their courtship, love story. youre right. you did not oversell this. >> i love, melissa, i love the idea of leave aside how they met. no. why would you leave aside how they met. the idea of a student saying im going to marry you someday and then it happens. >> right. but also she looks extremely cool, wears leather, so obviously she was a catch. >> but i told you, you never heard anything like that from people running for president...

And gotten into fights wit italian prime minister malcolm turnbull, had this frosty relationship with angela merkel of germany, our closest allies, right? but he loves these guy whos are historic total foes. theyre the bad guys, axis of evil, right? all of a sudden hes theyre great, admirable, strong. >> is this a godfather thing, keep your friends close, enemies closer? is that brilliant or just an affinity? what do you make? youre his boswell? >> thats kind of you to say, chris. heres what i t...