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I mean, listen, the europeans are trying to be the bigger party to this dispute. they are trying to do the right thing and hold together the trans-atlantic alliance. all theyre trying to do i think is just survive donald trump so that 2 1/2 years from now maybe nato still exists. so of course theyre going to try to say that the alliance is still strong. but the fact of the matter is europe is just making other plans right now. right now the europeans are creating a parallel defense structure ins...

>> i dont think that the chancellor came out of the meeting today with the american president feeling belittled. >> so let me just be precise, madam ambassador. despite these angry words by the president of the united states, the outcome of the meeting with chancellor merkel today was positive? >> they had a very good meeting, and i believe the nato summit was a very good summit. >> change your read? >> no. i mean, listen, the europeans are trying to be the bigger party to this dispute. they are...

End goal and looking into syria. the syrian outpost, the iranian l posed by international law, they are not supposed to be there. creating a crescent that would reach all the way to the mediterranean, they are doing with hezbollah in lebanon. i think the focus on iran needs to be very crystal-clear. to say france has not been naive, i beg to differ. i think they have been naive about iran, which led to the jcp 08, with hundreds of billions of dollars. most of which has gone to empowering their d...

And that ice a significant increase to the defense structure. built on as much as a 30% cut to the state department budget is that a fair trade-off in your view? >> well, again, you and i have not seen the details, jim, i know theyre not out there because i asked for those last night so i could make an informed desoigs an that. i can tell you i see the value in the state department and a number of the issues there but i also understand where the issues are with the state department and not provi...

In "the arizona." those are the emotional moments that you have to combine with policy-making decisions. and when president-elect trump is talking about dealing with other countries, he has to understand why japan is in the condition they are in today with their defense structure, why the u.s. supports that defense structure, what strategic advantage it gives us to have bases in japan and to deal with other japanese -- not only the japanese nation but other pacific nations. so all of these thing...

Bigger than a seth rogen movie and i know you know this. when they say a 9-11 style attack, if it opens up on december 25 and its taken serious enough to affect our economy to the point where every major screen says were not taking the risk and just saying this is just sony, considering the other private companies and how they can affect us and how they changed our behavior, absolutely take it serious. >> a movie that came out in 2004. >> theyre gog rerun it. they said no, no, we dont want part ...

Were going to help, quote, modernize the ukrainian military. were going to, quote, review our relationship with the russians. and the united kingdoms defense minister said as a reality, the europeans do not have the defense structure in place to take any kind of significant action. >> this is also a reminder of just how misconceived the pivot is and the idea that our main security crisis was likely to come in asia. we had no idea that we would be facing such a security crisis right in the heart ...

Sails here. the head of nato said what are we going to do? we going to help modernize the ukrainian military. we are going to review our relationship with the russias. the united kingdoms defense minister said as a reality, the europeans do not have the defense structure in place to take any kind of significant position. >> this is how misconceived the pivot was. the security crisis was likely to come to asia. we had no idea we would face such a security crisis in the heart of europe. nato under...

Columnist for "the washington post." and david corn is the washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine and an msnbc political analyst. i read your column this morning. i was impressed. but it does raise a couple questions. do we know that the chief, the boss, assad -- i dont even know what his title is -- of syria ordered the use of chemical weapons? do we know that? >> according to "the new york times" reporting, and i dont have independent confirmation of it, we do not have that informat...

Ordered the use of chemical weapons? do we know that? >> according to "the new york times" reporting, and i dont have independent confirmation of it, we do not have that information. the u.s. intelligence officials are confident that chemical weapons were used, that it was an attack way beyond anything syria has done in the past. >> do we know his defense structure, his military chiefs approved it? >> the attack was so broad that it had -- it was well coordinated. so the command structure, it co...