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Trump learning to use the expertise of his generals. >> i know more about isis than the generals do. >> reporter: theres a popular saying in the military. you can delegate authority but not responsibility. as commander in chief, president trump owns the consequences of the military on his behalf. he may be able to accept credit. the question is, will he be able to share accountability, when things go wrong? for more of president trumps policy, heres ryan liza. what mr. trump calls his flexibil...

>> president xi wants to do the right thing. we had a good bonding. i think we had good chemistry together. i think he wants to help us with north korea. >> reporter: if a trump foreign policy is emerging, it would be dont have a doctrine. >> i like to think of myself as a flexible person. if the world changes, i dont change. i do change. >> reporter: trump says he promises his military commanders. in yemen, where the u.s. is stepping up air strike against isis, in iraq and area, where hes sent ...

Obama had -- he probably would have done the same thick. same thing where obama ended up, which is no directions, recently. the great thing with democratic and republican foreign policy is this -- he is a realist. he does not speak in terms of american values, democracy, human rights. thats significant difference with obama and george w. bush. they both talked about foreign policy in terms of american values. his feetings and the neatings with his adds, vladimir putin and ill c.c. the leader of ...

The message, that washington is willing to flex its military might. >> reporter: new warnings from china, as tensions rising with north korea, the chinese foreign minister warning, if war breaks out, there will be losses on all sides. russia and syria issue warnings to the u.s. threats after president trumps to conduct two military strikes, afghanistan and syria. >> we have given them total authorization. thats what theyre doing. thats why theyve been so successful lately. >> reporter: the displ...

And if there is -- if there is a broad -- you know, the carter page lets turn to him for just a minute. right now, what we know if a fisa warrant was issued is that the -- the justice department and the fbi may have felt that he was knowingly acting as an agent of the russian government. >> okay. >> and that -- that would imply that he was doing it in a very concerted way and the question is who was he doing that with within trumps. >> i got your point. so listen. would foreign -- would these fo...

Well, what do you make of this, rebecca? >> hey, its like the least surprising headline of the day. trump defends bill oreilly on sexual harassment charges. like its the most expected thing, and yet i still was like -- i shuddered and gasped. >> i think there should be a german word for it, for the feeling you get when trump reacts in a way thats predictable yet infuriating. >> sends a chill down your spine. >> i had one main question, and that was why? like why would he respond to this? theres ...

>> sends a chill down your spine. >> i had one main question, and that was why? like why would he respond to this? theres so many things he could have done. he could have deflected. he could have said, you know, im teetering on the precipice of multiple, like, foreign -- >> yeah. i just talked about syrian chemical weapons. im not paying attention. >> and, you know, he could have easily deflected or pivoted. but instead he -- and he could have said nothing. but instead he said what he said, whic...

>> mr. president, on the russian explosion -- >> thank you. thank you. >> thank you guys. >> the president and el-sisi, two hand shakes. ron klain is with me. its in marked contrast to the angela merkel oval office visit when there was narey a single handshake even though she suggested that they shake hands for the photographers. theres still blow back. i just came back from brussels and the u.s. foreign minster not happy with the u.s. side on a lot of things. >> sometimes dealing with unpleasan...

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Activism among people which is why they crush protests. hes arrested journalists in this recent round, so this undermining of the media is very putinesque and people are seeing these activities happening in the united states and they should be worried. we should be taking action against them. >> about that turnout issue, are there any projections of what kind of turnout were looking at in this french election? >> reporter: well, im afraid it could be low. i think a lot of the people on the far l...