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Senat senator moinahan. >> thats correct, bob. >> and chief of staff has got to be an alter ego to the becausos. has to know whats going on. its not something you can parachute on a temporary basis. and we have a governing cries in this country. yes, there are always investigations. im not quintsed where theyre going to go but theres an aroma and a smell and there is lots of evidence. but the basic oiissues of forei policy, economic policy are chaos in the white house. and that sends that messag...

Countries to in some way take on expel as president trump said the scourge of counterterrorism. >> what about human rights? >> and in some sense the shift is not as dramatic as even the trump administration is making out. obama in a sense was the real shift. president bush was the guy who was saying were going to promote democracy all over the middle east. then comes the iraq war. then comes the backlash from it. and obama himself had a kind of realist foreign policy. how he admired george bush....

Bring him a deal he can call a victory. fair? >> well, i think its fair enough, based on how president trump has acquitted himself in the first several months in office. but, you know, he has received a lot of foreign leaders at the white house. hes seen a lot of people. hes had many, many phone calls. its not as if this is his initial foray into forei policy. s probm is, hes not acting like the leader of the west. every u.s. president since truman has been the leader of a democratic alliance in...

And nuclear weapons. they should get rid of him real quick. >> reporter: now what was interesting to me is that even though this is a place where, as you mentioned, ford shut down a plant in 2008, now ford has said they will reinvest, jobs wasnt necessarily top of mind for a lot of people we talked to. they, when i asked about how trump was doing generally, they talked about forei policy. so theyre takingotice and theyre paying close attention to these kinds of things that donald trump is doing....

Undocumented families and dreamers who feel threatened. >> she shouldnt be very worried. they are here illegally. i do have a big heart. we are going to take care of everybody. we are going to have a very strong border. and we are going to have a very solid border. you have greet people who have done a good job and they should be far less worried. >> the president said he will roll out the policy in the next four weeks. the other executive order per tainted to so-called sanctuary cities laemting...

More people than ever before having to do with terror. and its from t group of people that came in. >> the president has a so far unknown executive order signing on his schedule for this afternoon. according to the migration policy institute many refuges the last several months and compared to 41,000 in germany since 2013. the 4.9 million, the vast majority are living in turkey, lebanon, jordan and iraq. sam stein, all of the questions about this policy are the same as they were when he first in...

There. but the lawyer in me, its not hard to break through and what is the holding of that? i will defer to mattis and i will defer to pompeo. pompeo has said he will not allow this to happen and mattis says it doesnt work at the end of the day. there appears to be policy, while donald trump also seems to be trying to have it both ways, throwing scraps out to people who voted for him, who wanted waterboarding. its also, he is talking about legality too. its against the law. so there will be no w...

History. one things has affected the policy community the past eight years that the fact that barack obama did not listen to his cabinet officers as much as he did with small -- it was very closely held operation inside the white house. he didnt listen to his secretary of state and secretary of defense like he should have according to the foreign policy community. the cabinet officers were more relevant than ever before. george w. bush leading up to iraq didnt talk to colin powell because he sai...

When the president said that he thinks that, you know, torture might be -- might work -- like im trying to remember the words on the abc interview but that certainly what he said. that reverb rates oversea. what are you saying to the president when you see him this week? she had to say absolutely not. the european stand on this, where the brits stand on this and we need those foreign services and they are our eyes and ears in many places we dont get. if we get a probe back on maybe not the brits...

They are already now working on repealing and replacing obamacare. the only thing i see remaining is the debt, the deficit, the judges that he has appointed, and of course, internationally, the damage that he has created. what is his legacy? what did he point to? >> his legacy is donald trey trump. thats what his legacy is. and the majority of the american people think that we are the wrong track of forei policy. he is echoing the thought of people like cornell west, under obama, the black econo...