jonathan powell was i'm a negotiator of the process that eventually led to peace the will i fear be more violence as a result of this if you put the hard border back in again you haven't installations you have to have border posts you have to have guards on the border and they will of course be targets for the dissidents powell says the deal with the e.u. will eventually unravel because prime minister to resign may enter government promised too many things to too many different people and the protection of the belfast agreement said to the irish that there would be no hard border they guaranteed it they said to the d.p. unionists that there would be no border in the r.e.c. they said to the brics a tears in their own policy that we would leave the customs union single market and they said to the that there would be regulatory alignments if there was no over agreement those four things are not compatible. some people like these protesters in london don't want to leave the e.u.
critically i think the the nature of the agreement that was reached last week between the british government and the european commission on how to avoid the border has somewhat narrow the room for maneuver for treason may because they will have to there will have to be regulatory alignments between northern ireland and the republic of ireland and between northern ireland and the u.k. so it kind of binds the u.k. closer to the european model of regulation this is somewhat complicated but i think this is where the focus is at the moment and when i want to pick up on the issue of the ireland the irish board in just a moment but i want to get your take on what we saw tonight in london in parliament in this vote basically a slap in the face to theresa may is her hand now significantly weakened when she returns to the negotiating table with the e.u. . i mean on the surface you would think so but she has been through so many crises
a lot of the experts are worrying about whether there's a potential emp effect, electromagnetic pulse. it depends on where the devices detonated. would it take out satellites in orbit? could it take out electrical grids and communication systems? land areas where the detonation takes place? this is more serious than just setting off a big firecracker. it shows fundamentally why the president is properly concerned about how irrational this is. wars can start, not simply because people intend they start but from miscalculation. you see a dictatorship like this -- miscalculation should be much on our mind. >> jeanine: earlier, i read that what kim jong un did with regard to that icbm that was headed toward japan, you know, his alignments are not that
pacific is the radiation that would come from it. a lot of the experts are worrying about whether there's a potential emp effect, electromagnetic pulse. it depends on where the devices detonated. would it take out satellites in orbit? if it were lower. could it take out electrical grids and communication systems? land areas where the detonation takes place? this is more serious than just setting off a big firecracker.? it shows fundamentally, why the president is properly concerned about how irrational this regime is. wars can start, not simplynt because people intend they start but from miscalculation. you see a dictatorshipip like this -- miscalculation should be much on our mind. >> jeanine: earlier, i read that what kim jong un did with regard to that icbm that was headed toward japan, you know, his alignments are not that specific. it could just as easily have hit
his alignments are not that specific. it could just as easily have hit japan. the concern is if it's not that sophisticated -- the targeting -- everyone is in trouble. >> we don't really have that good an idea of how sophisticated the capabilities are. everybody has been surprised the past three have been for months at the range of some of the missiles launched. frankly, it's a thermo nuclear detonation. the sixth test. what has troubled me is in the two that have overflown japanese territory, there was no attempt to engage with missile defense systems. our response was we did not think it threatened japanese territory but as you rightly pointed out, these weapons can fail. their trajectory can go off. or north koreans might be more sophisticated and have maneuverable capabilities.
in the hirnt lands there's still a lot of support for the president. we have alignments, realign wants going in these parties, and i think the west virginia governor has picked up where the winds are going in west virginia. >> do you think we're in the middle of one? there's nobody i know living that could tell me what county voted which way going back to 1948. that's you, tom davis. you've seen plenty of reauto line wants, are we in the milled, beginning, end of one? >> we've been in an alignment. the republican party base has moved from the country club to the country. this has been going on. part of it is social issues, environmental issues and the oil patch and the coal patch. and we see the opposite taking place in places like my old county of fair fax. so we're in a realignment. we don't know where it ends up. i think if president trump lost it might have been an asterisk, but this has moved the align linement further. >> and if your -- do we start seeing the same week that we have jeff flake sort of not comfortable with the direction of the republican party, you
someoninto isis is incredibly hard to begin with, think that it shows -- it sends a message not just -- forget about what he did with the russians but it sends a message to the rest of the world that perhaps questions where his judgments and alignments are and the rest of the world does not look towards russia with a kind eye. most of our allies certainly don't. so it won't help the israelis, when he goes back to europe, the saudis as well, it won't help things in terms of whether they want to share information or how they'll deal with president trump. i think it adds a lot of question. >> noel, andrew mccarthy writing for the national review saying the problem is what president trump said to the russians, comey is one of us, there is no excuse for a president of the united states to run down an american for the consumption of our russian adversaries, particularly an american fighting against russian operations against our country. it is indefensible. do you think the speech we're about to see coming up is in any way going to help the president
isis. and recognizing the threat that poses. but in terms of kind of the role of the global community verse shifting power and back toward individual nations, toward global integration and the economy, toward the free flow of people and products and ideas, they are on very different pages. as we said, even in his victory speech, he talked about maintaining action on climate where the president may be days away from removing the u.s. from one of the biggest diplomatic achievements of the obama administration, which is the global agreement for a paris climate treaty. as i said before, you are seeing politics being kind of shaken from the axis because we have a new divide. we have a new fault line that doesn't entirely trap with the existing political alignments in many countries where essentially politics is being slit along the lines of transformation versus restoration. you have voters who are fundamentally comfortable with a more globalized world, more
these are two groups who -- or who countries aligned very much against assad. now, iran, the assad regime and russia have condemned the attack. we have yet to hear from hezbollah here in lebanon. hezbollah being the shia-aligned iranian group which is very much in favor of assad and they have proven to be a decisive factor in this conflict. we'll start to hear more reaction. right now what we're hearing is basically the same alignments, the usual suspects aligned against each other in this region. they've been active and they've been making the kind of statements you'd expect to hear. ayman? >> it's alex again. is there any group outside of those you mentioned, hezbollah, iran, russia, that you would expect to condemn this attack from the united states? is there anyone you think is percolating who will come out and say, bad move? . >> reporter: we -- i wouldn't necessarily expect anyone to come out -- any of the
i like people to be able to speak up. it shouldn't be partisanship, maybe there's not just two options, i like the more radical -- >> tom: it becomes left and right, everything is democrat and republican. >> i think donald trump is hideously unfit for the presidency. however, i think many people think that to say that is to dis- republicans. which it isn't, donald trump, i think we do need to discuss politics more now than we would have in say 2007. the idea is that we need to talk about what our political alignments are. doing that cannot be discussing various shades of the left. >> tom: he's saying stop going after trump supporters you lousy