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Official characterized disappointing european allies as a quote, secondary benefit of trumps decision. the post also reporting the president was irritated after french president emmanuel macron described this white knuckle handshake as a moment of truth and that the president got his revenge by claiming, yesterday, quote, i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. in many ways, at announcement was a classic trump move. it looked impornt and dramatic and allowed the preside...

Paris climate agreement. it would signal to the rest of the world that the u.s. abdicated its role as global leader and trendsetter. it would confirm that washington has gone rogue. the writer went on to say this would be turning o isolationism. did we lose the senator? i think we did. its a different opinion. i want you to hear it. there are those that say turning away from this climate agreement would be moved towards isolationism. thats something thats not good for the kwraoupbd and the globa...

From the u.s. is were moving towards isolationism and thats something that has been shocking to them, wolf. >> i want to bring bianna to this conversation. the the president argues that pulling out saves american jobs. but as you know many of americas largest companies including exxonmobil they supported the paris agreement and urged the president to not have the u.s. drop out. tell us why they think its good for american jobs to be part of the international agreement. >> yeah, including rex til...

And u.s. officials. there is also the other prong of trade, of economic development in the region. thats something of course saudi arabia has specifically said they want to focus on. something one of the top advisers here have said to us is this is really a test of the america first montrau. during the campaign it was really interpreted as his move toward isolationism on the part of the united states, that were going to be turning inwards, what can we do for the american people, the american wor...

Term with condi rices influence -- paul: nation building. >> nation building, you know, lets have elections in the palestinian authority -- paul: right. >> -- and that will bring peace and democracy to everybody. so i new the wilsonian element in american foreign policy which has been a pretty strong theme for a while has had so many failures really under both bush and obama to some degree, think of the libya invasion, that trump has pushed that way in the background. i think any american presid...

Spreading democracy. i think especially in the second term with condi rices influence -- paul: nation building. >> nation building, you know, lets have elections in the palestinian authority -- paul: right. >> -- and that will bring peace and democracy to everybody. so i new the wilsonian element in american foreign policy which has been a pretty strong theme for a while has had so many failures really under both bush and obama to some degree, think of the libya invasion, that trump has pushed t...

Because he did run on isolationism and iraq war in hindsight was a debacle. but he gave the thrill of nationalist militaryism intervention being strong. the u.s. isnt strong, were going to rebuild the military. he sold people on both. he loved the response he got after the missile strikes in syria. you can understand steve bannon doesnt want to see mainstreaming -- >> you wrote about this at length during the campaign. i think its important to understand trump is not an ideas guy, hes an impulse...

Syria was taken unlimited action for the purposes of showing the allies in the region that we are going to be there and i think a political strategy will file -- follow the strike. one of the things that we seen is that there back in vogue. nato was obsolete. he was cautious about alliance with south korea and japan. now is put both arms behind there. this is important and it falls on what bill says. this is not the isolationism that a lot of people feared. he is invited montenegro to join. he i...

But even some of the people who were on the campaign, one of the senior aides said to us that if -- what this aide said was i would have had a reason for running or i wouldnt have run. one of her top aides said that. and for donald trump, it was a very simple message that involved the few issues that were pretty easy to correlate together that kind of came into this idea of america first. the isolationism, the nationalism, cutting down on trade, cutting down on immigration. these all sort of fit...

Protectionist sentiment. on the other hand, the realities of the job sometimes undermine sentiments. >> fair point? >> last year when he was on the campaign trail holding fund-raisers for a lot of senate candidates, basically doing jobs folks in this party wouldnt do, he had this line and he said it over and over again. he was troubled by the kind of rising isolationism in both parties but he kind of meant trump it was pretty obvious. but being in the job kind of undermines those sentiments. >> ...