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More hawkish positions. this has been a fundamental question throughout the trump administration and that is to what extent is he going to be a traditional republican and what extent is he going to be an isolationist. trumps impulses on this are clear. he wanted to draw down from afghanistan. he wanted to get out of certain wars. you saw that with syria as well. the president wanted to bring down troops there. even though president trump criticized president obama for what trump said at the time...

Politico and msnbc contributor. so, natasha, mattis expanding on that point in an essay in the wall street journal this week, writing nations with allies thrive and those without them wither. alone, america cannot protect our people and our economy. that the time, we can see storm clouds gathering. what kind of warning is this to you? >> this is always something that mattis has emphasized. thats why it was particularly surprising when the president chose him in the first place to be the secretar...

Is will troops be leaving syria? how long will troops be in afghanistan where ice sis becoming a threat there now as well. >> i think the president has to be very careful here about just going ahead and promising that somehow we will pull back all troops from the region without any assurances that ultimately this problem will be dealt with. he says let others deal with the problem, that weve got -- were 7,000 miles away. but that has always been a false promise by isolationists. they use that ar...

Seen before. and pursuing that confrontation with the democratic house. and part of this, you know, brian, is political. donald trump is the last person who would say he is a historian. but one way presidents have made the other party seem unpalatable is to take a few people within the party and identify them with the rest of the party. you remember 1940, the republican candidate was a moderate named wendell wilkie. but if you listened to franklin roosevelt youd think the candidates were three c...

Articulated, you know, less of this and less isolationists and all of the trumpian characteristi characteristics. there would have been a local remnant of people saying we are not buying into this. paul ryan must be looking around saying what did i get from all the appeasement? i got the tax cuts but going forward, i got nothing. >> the president really picked off from the democrats. >> well, it is interesting being in wisconsin, none of the c candidates are making the mistakes of not coming her...

Candidates on stage and you were the only one who was essentially attacked personally by the moderators. why do you think that was? >> look, it shows there is a clear bias in place. i made the most of every minute that i had. i wish i had the opportunity to have more time to address these important issues. but i want to just point out something from that clip that you played that i think is really important. where we hear a lot of politicians say this same argument that well, weve got to stay en...

Program we should have one simple objective and that is to reinstitute a new agreement, a new international agreement, one that has either a dramatically extended sunset clause or no sunset clause at all. ten years was not enough. i think right now iran is in a position of weakness and vulnerability, not strength. and its a prime opportunity for us to reengage, renegotiate with a strong diplomatic effort. we cannot be isolationists towards iran as pertains to what its doing with nonstate actors ...

Of the oldest war hawks architect of the rack war advocating regime change. this tells you that president trump doesnt have a policy so he can be persuaded by people in his party, whether its the press and the crowds or the base who are essentially isolationists and dont want to see another war. or people like john bolton and secretary pompeo, who are heavily influenced by the ideas of regime change and israeli and saudi influences of wanting the united states to do tear dirty work in the region...

Here. >> laura: two years ago, the so-called experts, foreign policy experts, were predicting that you would fracture nato, america would become isolationists. what do you say to those experts today? president trump: those are the people that failed so badly and i havent really gone to them. i know them. ive read them. ive seen what their result was and it was terrible. nato was going down and if you look at the money coming into nato for the last 15 years it was escalating down and now its like...

Roosevelt did. we look at it as a just war. many thought it was a good idea we entered and fought. roosevelt felt it was inevitable woe have to stand up to adolf hitler. for four years he was struggling with congress and isolationists and if it wasnt pearl harbor we wouldnt get in. nowadays a president can get us in hand single-handedly. >> now french president emanuel macron. [ speaking french ] >> translator: ladies and gentlem gentlemen, from the 5th to 6th of june, 1944, it was rough not