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>> donald trump is -- his instincts are not going to change. you see that on twitter. i was really struck in watch and reading more about reagan. i covered eight years of ronald reagan. the change from the man who talked about the evil empire and the man who cut deals with gorbachev and talked about the vision of a world without nuclear weapons is so extraordinary, and it was jim becamer, and george schultz and other smart advisors. i think having kelly and mattis around him has been critical. >...

President several times sent some pretty negative signals to nato and, yet, has seen over a time to move more towards a traditional american position. we have to say, again, with a cavat, that could all change in the next 15 minutes. a lot of world leaders, and david ignatious said this the other day, theyre starting to say, okay, okay, this tweet is fine. fine. thats for domestic consumption. only were looking at his policy, and were talking to mattis and tillerson and others who apparently are...

Going to be impossible to be the president he wants and to be so radical in his tweets. >> i can only hope. >> a year from now i have a feeling that were going to look at those a little differently. >> keep your eye on nikki haley, though. >> keep your eye on nikki haley. >> she was attached to donald trump. not the secretary of state. >> tom brokaw, david ignatious, andrea mitchell. thank you all. om the water, its a race against time. and keeping it in the right conditions is the best way to g...

Anything specific going on? i keep being told, no. >> we will see. its been off a week. about a week or so since north korea tested any sort of missiles. we will see what happens next. max boot, david ignatious, carol lee. guys, thanks for joining me. next, the silence from most of hollywood and democrats. they are not addressing on a large scale at least, the allegations of sexual harassment against movie mogul and party donor harvey weinstein? why? is there something with republicans calling...

The stadium. >> they knew it would be a short visit. a tell-tale sign something was up. david, you called the vice presss walk-out a ham-handed effort to isolate people brave enough to dissent in the face of the most powerful people in the world and raise issues. >> this th is this administrations m.o. distract, demonize and divert. the difference with this is this co choreography was just so terrible. i havent seen choreography this bad since elaine on seinfeld.

And the list is getting extremely long. reporting on the immigration priorities that are fairly hard lines, sort of steven millersing that the white house wants to get done. >> halle jackson and garrett hague. guys, thank you very much. im joined by washington post columnist david ignatious and carol lee. thank you for joining me. david, bob corker told the "new york times" that president lies in his tweets. and everyone knows this. everyone knows he he does it. he does tend to lie a lot. is t...

Feels that president is, you know, potentially setting the country on a path to world war iii. he says there are examples that lead him to that conclusion. which adds more hest to just what otherwise might be rhetoric. i think one. questions to ask when youre talking about whether other republicans come out and say this and not just republican lawmakers, also the foreign policy establishment types, is whether it helps people like secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, for them to talk about them...

Separate. we live in a world of united states values, institutions we shaped after 1945. a world that i think has thrived in that era of the liberal international order. trump and steve bannon and others regard it as essentially the inmy aenemy and want to tak apart. i think the democracy promotion and devaluing human rights is an issue. all part of this campaign and i think makes us weaker by the month. the standing united states and worlds eyes has plummeted since january. the numbers are stri...

What makes us different as americans. were not just about prosperity. were about values. democracy. how do we get to prosperity. we do it through democracy. every man and woman, one vote, et cetera. >> and david, what i find so striking about this is that a mission statement of the state department is kind of like a party platform. no one ever reads it or thinks about it. it never crossed my mind before until someone in the trump state department has come along and said, oh, i have an idea. lets...

Military exercise has been planned for months and is not seen as a response to the u.s. sanctions bill necessarily. today at the state department secretary of state rex tillerson said this about the united states and russia. >> the relationship as you know in russia is under considerable stress. by action by congress to put the sanctions in place and the way they did. neither the president nor i are happy about that. we were clear that we didnt think it was going to be helpful to our efforts. bu...