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Were not mentssaging on foreig policy, et cetera. we have a messaging problem and we had an obamacare face-plant in the senate. weve got to correct that and move forward. and we failed to do that last night. >> but ed gillespie did run on some of the issues, some of the cultural issues that have been most important and prominent to this president. like immigration, like confederate statues, like the nfl, you know, kneeling or standing for the anthem. he did run on that stuff. i think what were t...

They may or may not have shown to sway the election but theres this whole other track which is how much of it had to do with donald trumps policy and the gops policy toward russia. they have taken a warm turn toward russia that i think is not based on whats going on in the world or any kind of common sense policy or philosophy. >> you think its based on common sense? >> no. i listen as carefully as you do and it has not been articulated to me why it makes a great deal of sense for us to forgive ...

What happened at the convention, the language change, sessions meets with kislyak. kislyak meets the team. what really went down there. and it comes back to also mike flynn and what has been his role. im told by people who were familiar with the trump campaign that mike flynns role was very big and pretty sweeping and he was throwing around the orders. people responded. so until we really know what actually mike flynn was in control of, theres a huge part of this story that we just are speculati...

Changed the language for the first time in the history of the republican party platform process. and think about -- john mccain was the gop nominee in 2008. mitt romney described russia as our greatest geopolitical adversary. trump comes along and changes the only policy language that i think changed was around russia. so isnt it -- arent we trying to find out whether sessions was involved in meetings with kislyak and other russians around that policy change? >> well, i do think that it all goes...

Policy, see who is sitting next to him. he has been given the role of foreign peace. i dont want an adviser like that, someone so close to the president, so trusted, to be weakened. you want that person to be effective, to be able to be a key, and to not be distracted. if hes distracted because hes personally potentially liable, but now he has tone gau engage battle of what he can reveal or not because hes key to the president of the united states. and given his role on foreign policy issues, yo...

Minded. >> nigel farage, thank you for being here. joins us now from the great state of delaware chris koons, let me go back and talk about taiwan. of what significance do you think the telephone call that is leading the news today? >> well, michael, well have to see whether this is the beginning of a new chapter where the president-elect after he is inaugurate ed conducts a foreig policy that is shoot from the hip, twitter storm style where he gets into twitter fights or takes unscheduled cal...

with yemen, iraq and serbia? ill explain. but first, heres my take. mitt romney has picked a bad time to launch an attack on barack obamas foreign policy. as he was speaking to the annual gathering of the veterans of foreign wars this week, charging obama with weakness, betrayal and mendacity, nbc news and "the wall street journal" released a new poll. it turns out on handling foreign policy, americans prefer obama to romney by a whopping 15 points. romneys principal charge against o...