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Trouble knocking down that idea, we should note. why then, natasha, wont the white house? why is there such a disconnect between the president and his staff? and what would be gained by offering up ambassador mcfall? >> nothing in particular in terms of yn on the u.s. side, but russian president vladimir putin, he has made this a top foreign policy priority. he is extremely fixated on these things that were implemented after an intense lobbying ca ii campaign and michael mcfall was involved in t...

Calculations made here by this white house? >> everybodys made the point in the last three months since trump quickly decided to do the summit he was taking a big risk. normally you work up torwards a summit and make small agreements along the way. trumps doing it the opposite way. staked a lot of his political foreign policy capital on this. sort of elevating north korea to essentially his biggest foreign policy priority and jumped all in. im the master negotiator, will take it from here. kim j...

Putins position is he wants the sanctions lifted as his number one foreign policy priority. we know he got this agent, the famous russian lawyer, he got her to go to trump tower when trump was just nominated to go on a quest to donald trump junior, paul manafort and jared kushner to repeal the act. we dont know the trump camps reaction to that. and so were sort of sitting here, and its an important month. this is the month more names get added to the list. trump will either do that as scheduled ...

>> thats it. thats the thing that most upsets him. and he has made no -- theres no uncertainty about this. when he became president again after being sort of sitting in the secondary seat in 2012, he put out a white paper, a foreign policy strategy paper where he said getting rid of the act was the single largest foreign policy priority. theres no secret that he hates it, that this affects him personally, and theres no secret that this is what he was trying to get rid of. >> veselnitskaya denied...

President obama told president-elect trump at the time and his whole team that north korea should be the new administrations top foreign policy priority. is that something you agree with, gordon? >> yes, i do. but we got to remember that its not just north korea. north korea has been working pretty closely with the chinese and also with the iranians. and so, therefore, it is a challenge which is broad based. you put it all together though, i think that that is the number one foreign policy goal ...

Against obama and he lost. and it damaged his relationship to the point where we saw just this week that the administration is an unprecedented way was eavesdropping on him and on his government. >> and your winner? >> well, my winner is president obama. he had a pretty good year legislatively and in deal-making as charles mentions, the iran deal, something that was a huge priority for the administration, probably their top foreign policy priority. and and after a long delay, he got that through...

Solution to the core problem. >> the military element is an important part. we cant just kind of discount that. its remarkable to me isis has been on our radar for more than a year now. theres no excuses. i condition think of a single country thats made isis the number one foreign policy priority. we havent. weve been very reluctant dragging our feet, doing too little too late. theres also the question of syria. we have not had a serious strategy for the past four years since the uprisings began...

We can work with. its entirely possible and ive talked to a lot of people who know iran about this question. in response to this deal iran will not become our friend and cooperate with us. indeed, that hard liners in the iranian government will sort of want their turn. the iranian revolutionary guard corps will become more aggressive, that the sanctions will allow iran to send more money and eventually if this arms embargo is lifted more arms to proxy allies in lebanon, iraq yemen. interestingly...

>> it was a campaign issue for some of the republican freshmen who are now in the senate. we know that. of course it didnt come out of left field. they have been going around the last few months saying this is their number one foreign policy priority. tom coughlin got elected, got into the senate and made waves very fast over the issue. >> if i were running any where the republican or democrat this would be one of my top issues. i have said it on the air here. isis is horrible. the purplings are...

Disagreement, this conflict will hurt his chances when democrats, with democrats getting tougher sanctions placed on iran? >> you know, if you think about it, this is an extraordinary occurrence. you have the leader of a close ally of the united states, one of the closest allies, coming to washington to openly campaign against the presidents top foreign policy priority in his second term. so this is a very interesting occurrence and its very unusual. and i think you could definitely see some sor...