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To Balance China, Joe Biden Should Build Upon Trump’s India Strategy For the United States to counterbalance an increasingly assertive China, President Biden has to push the India policy envelope conceived by the Trump administration while championing America’s founding values of freedom and democracy. President Donald Trump’s “America First” ethos has permanently aligned India within the United States’ overarching Indo-Pacific strategy. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s uniqu...

Attacks because of leaks or comments coming from the white house. so that potentially impacts the intelligence cooperation. and then more broadly on international issues like climate change, iran and other issues, i think it does -- you know, when the president of the united states basically gives no concessions or doesnt meet the uk halfway in any of these issues that they care deeply about, i think it does weaken public support for the alliance in the uk. >> thomas, thank you for joining us. t...

>> and arms sales is in part of that discussion right now to be clear. >> as they absolutely should be because our arms are being used in the war against yemen creating this humanitarian fiasco. so they should be in that. realize the house has to be in this too, so the path is not quick and easy. we are in a lame duck. the president has to buy some time. but i think youre dwroeg to see the democratic house coming back in january and saying absolutely we should end our arms sales and our intellig...

Least accused of massive human rights violations. certainly the extreme form of islam was born there and arguably they continue to export it by funding terror activities outside of saudi arabia. not so productively, i would say. then he comes to europe, his allies and didnt say anything about article five at a time when these isis fighters are squeezing out of the middle east, coming to europe and attacking soft targets in europe, dont we want europe to have our back? and lets talk about intelli...

North koreans, is that the sort of saber rattling theyre going to brush off or are they going to take that as some threat of a first attack. >> lanhee, why -- our pentagon correspondent hans nichols reminded us of something thats been true. our intelligence inside of north korea has gotten worse, not better. most of that is a south korean problem. why has it gotten worse? >> i think part of it is because kim jong-un, believe it or not, has become more repressive than his father and his grandfath...

Intelligence works and there are a lot of people in the intelligence community, even high level leaders in the pentagon, former leaders in the pentagon talking about how this will hinder intelligence cooperation when we paint the brush with everyone in the countries. >> i want our television viewers to see part of an ad you released today, john. >> you lost the popular vote, having trouble drawing a crowd and your approval rate something sinking, banning muslims wont help, thats not the america ...

Governments. the question is, what is in the best interest of european security. intelligence cooperation, trying to integrate rather than ostracize their own muslim communities, trying to enlist and mobilize them in the fight against these jihadi -- this terrorist intenterprise. i think this is a problem that the europeans are uniquely faced with, in large part because their muslim communities are not as well integrated as in ours. first and foremost, i care about what were going to do. im hopi...

Puzzle. how does that get fixed? >> youre right. we need better intelligence and more intelligence cooperation. i think, unfortunately, there are a lot of people who felt we could just pull out of the middle east we could let this problem fester and let people over there solve it for themselves. isis is a national security threat to us and our allies. they brutally killed americans and europeans abroad. they have every intention of killing them here at home as we saw in paris this weekend. weve ...

To me that there are clearly sensitivities. i think the u.s. authorities would like to do more intelligence cooperation. russians dont necessarily want that. perhaps you could understand it if we had an olympics in atlanta or los angeles, would we be inviting the russians to help us out? maybe not. this looks like a case where they may need help. >> jim sciutto, thank you so much. despite the russian assurances that they have everything handled, its not alleviating worry. several lawmakers are...

is like dealing with a bowl of jell-o. they refuse to get serious about cutting spending and making the tough choices that are facing our country on entitlement reform. thats the bottom line. >> president obama has asked them to come to the white house to tell them how he plans to avoid closing on the debt deadline. he was confident they could reach a deal, but now he said he would be at the white house tomorrow. so, is he backing off? chief white house correspondent jessica yellin joi...