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Thats also a big test for the taliban. can they keep it together as the people are going to face economic hardships going forward? >> what should the posture of the biden administration be? obviously the next days are going to be getting americans out and allies out if we can. then what? they have cut off shipments of u.s. dollars. you just mentioned how dependent the afghan economy has been on the u.s. dollar. should the administration try to completely isolate the taliban, or does it have no c...

General mattis is obviously someone externally qualified and well loved. it is also true we were not seeing the presidents foreign policy being implemented by everyone in the pentagon. president trump could not have been clearer, going back to 2013, that he did not believe endless war in syria is a good idea. he has said repeatedly and consistently, and for some reason, the plans of the state department and pentagon keep putting forth involve staying there a long time. obviously, there was a con...

In the government. maybe a long-time friend who has nothing to do with any of this, no security clearance but has been successful in business. the president gets inputs in a lot of different ways and it seems like general kelly recognized that. >> jeremy bash, try to put this whole week into context for us. oneness is no way to run a rodeo. two, we should have been focussed on dire changes in our foreign policy posture as a country. the distancing of ourselves from the u.k. and zwrerm any, the p...

Years. but theyve never been in this position. >> reporter: a reporter asked basically how the president could compliment a dictator who starves and murders his own people, prisons americans. the president just responded that he hopes the u.s. and north korea can deal in an open and honorable process and wants to fix the problem that previous administrations failed to do, dana. >> dana: all right. i imagine he was very clear eyed about kim jong-un as a person. thank you, rich edson. joining me n...

Customer gives skepticism? do you have faith in this process? what you think brought into the table? >> i dont have a lot of faith in kim jong un. i do have a lot of faith in president trump. specifically, you could make an argument that his foreign policy, as good as the tax reform, as good as the economy is doing, his foreign policy posture and his work should be heralded. we dont -- we know longer have a moving redline. i can guarantee you were not going to send a cargo plane full of cash ahe...

Do you have faith in this process? what you think brought into the table? >> i dont have a lot of faith in kim jong un. i do have a lot of faith in president trump. specifically, you could make an argument that his foreign policy, as good as the tax reform, as good as the economy is doing, his foreign policy posture and his work should be heralded. we dont -- we know longer have a moving redline. i can guarantee you were not going to send a cargo plane full of cash ahead of any meeting with kim ...

Foreign policy posture on big issues like of course syria where the trump administration did plan and execute that attack this week after saying for some time they had no intention of doing so. >> word is steve bannon wasnt too happy about that. lets look what has happened. mcmaster is in and flynn and bannon and mcfarland all out. does this suggest a more traditional makeup now to the nsc? >> well, if you talk to the foreign policy hawks in the republican party, sometimes dubbed neocons by thos...

President trump is two totally different things. i think hes redefining his foreign policy posture. >> thats exactly what maria was getting to. let me pick up from what april was saying, and ivan, bring it to you. if we now or the united states i should say has created this precedent, the president has created this precedent that he will get involved if its at the level of chemical weapons, does the united states now go back to not being involved after 400,000 people, almost all of them have die...

Last several weeks from our nato allies and others trying to understand what will our foreign policy posture be. certainly it makes people uncomfortable to see not only has the national security adviser general flynn had to step down but now we are hearing reports that others dont want the job as was reported today thesh concerned about how erratic mr. trump has been. clearly, pence is over there trying to calm and ease those fear and put on a good face for world audience. back here at home the ...

Would seize it by force. oh, yeah, what are you going to do about it, mr. brand-new president? ronald reagan was president and the soviets decided it would be a time to have no warning border skirmishes, standoffs over hostile territory. huge, huge military exercises. the transition to a new president is a time when americas adversaries push it. and usually we expect that just after the new president is sworn in. usually we expect that, you know, some time in the spring. well, in this transition...