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Weaknesses, i dont think theyd want to touch it. >> the other point of entry for democrats say that our party traditionically agrees, and when it comes to human rights stuff, they can actually position themselves as tougher on china than trump. its the only sector of the china conversation. >> to go with human rikts rights. >> i think you laid it out just now. we support this effort to reign china in. but here is the limit of that. and a lack of leadership beyond that by this president is causin...

The people sing." >> thats "le mis." [ laughter ] >> this is the point where the real danger here and the president not speaking up is when that vacuum is open, then these democracy forces, they become radicalized. theyre waiting for us to come in and say, look, we have your back. you can push things a little bit farther now because were there. if you have dissidence, well step in. >> david, can you explain, you know, i dont think its an accident that mody did what he did in india with kashmir. ...

Especially today. >> david, let me do the, what some may push back on when they hear all of us arguing this sort of, well, america, whether we like it or not we are the worlds policemen. they may push back and say to what end has that worked? we lost blood and treasure in afghanistan. why should we get involved, right? that is the donald trump foreign policy philosophy. frankly, that is probably where 40% of the country sit on these issues. >> so, people are right that this is not a moment when ...

In hong kong. i didnt even bring up the democracy movements we have nothing about to say in russia. a top administration official actually said the hong kong matter is an internal matter for china. any other modern president would also be strenuously opposing missile launches or rebuking allies or trying to ease tensions in kashmir or trying to ease tensions between japan and south korea. instead, the message this american president is sending to foreign governments is its your business if you w...

Jason johnson is politics editor at theroot.com. all of them are msnbc contributors. david, i want to start with you because this has been one of those -- weve been talking about this inside our own news room for quite some time going there is this giant foreign policy problem sitting at the presidents desk. but its hard to articulate because the problem is inaction. you did a good job of articulating it in this big picture, but this isnt the easiest story to explain to the public. explain what ...