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we also need to be focused on the day after. and so in conversations that well be having through the course of this weekend, i expect youll see a focus there, and particularly how we can get over time two states for two peoples, which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state that they are entitled to. so, these roadway the things that we are focused on. these are challenging times. t...

That rebuke you talk about, that bipartisan re-duke yesterday and some of the presidents closest allies lindsey graham saying this is essentially the biggest foreign policy error of the trump presidency. so thats part of why the administration was so forceful in trying to get this cease fire. but youre absolutely pause. now, part of why thats so important if you take a step back, ch and youve covered the white house as well. cease fires dont always work and they dont always hold. take a listen t...

Not find that outrage, though, in the opinion pages of the wall street journal. this sort of standard bearer of the business view applauding the move calling it a pledge of phony progress. >> lets talk about this now, joining us this morning, greg vallier at horizon investments. you got former treasury secretary larry summers calling this the biggest foreign policy error since entering the iraq war. david gergen calling it one of the most shameful acts in u.s. history. you say what? >> i think t...

Hes also considered a foreign policy pragmatist in the republican party and basically in the mainstream, if you will, you know, hes pursuing policies on foreign policy that arent out of step with traditional american foreign policy. the only big exception here with the white house, brian, is of course, the russia piece. with regards you saw in russia today, you saw at the nato meeting of leaders today, the president echoing themes written by vladimir putin. you know, basically saying, nato pay u...

Course, the russia piece. with regards you saw in russia today, you saw at the nato meeting of leaders today, the president echoing themes written by vladimir putin. you know, basically saying, nato pay up, youre not paying your fair share. and then of course not saying that we would defend them if they were attacked. that is a major foreign policy error. >> peter, look back about the comey dismissal, you shared the byline with the people we know seeming know so well, glenn and maggie and michae...

Hooeg a prague notist in the other people in the republican party and basically in the mainstream if you will, you know, hes pursuing a policies on foreign policy that arent out of step with traditional american foreign policy. the only big exception here with the white house, brian, is of course, the russia piece. with regards you saw in russia today, you saw at the nato meeting of leaders today, the president echoing themes written by vladimir putin. you know, basically saying, nato pay up, yo...

Clinton when she was secretary of state to get a better deal with russia, to get the united states on a better page with russia. the best pushback to that is, you believe, at this point? >> well, i think -- i mean, to understand sort of how illogical trumps position, you have to listen to what mike said, which is, when i was in the white house and we attempted a reset with russia, we were criticized by being naive, criticized by republicans, im sure by some of mikes friends. and in defending tru...

To mischaracterize our record to create what is a nonexistent contrast. and most importantly we know that the extent that governor romney -- to the extent hes shown any foreign policy vision, its through the glass of a rear-view mirror. >> now, senator, you talked about what you believe is barack obamas break with a foreign policy tradition, but what about the flip side of that? mitt romney has spend four year as a govern oor of massachusetts. as someone without a significant foreign policy erro...

Saddam did 9/11 stuff. seriously, visit it. its a time travel back to the worst losing arguments in foreign policy in the last decade. having been so discredited by the iraq war disaster, the project for the new american century people closed up shop. they did basically re-open under a different name. a rather obscure name, foreign policy initiative. which i think not by accident is much less googleable than their old name. with the greatest foreign policy error in american history hung around t...