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>> you saw who he chose for his cabinet. "mad dog" mattis. you saw a lot of his in terms of who donald trump would be taking advice from, and they werent going to be the isolationists. howie: the russian ties were rooted in the notion there was an unholy alliance between the trump side and putin side. but you dont think the changes in policy are knocking that down at all? marie: i think they are road in the fact that the intelligence community said russia interfered in this election. the f.b.i. ...

Way, when are they actually going to get involved and start helping out with this as well? >> julie: there is also news that a russian -- thats ridiculous. >> chris: he says we heard actors to do it. whats sick is that there are americans who because of their political views either as isolationists or liberals who hate trump are willing to believe garbage like that just as they were during the election, willing to believe misinformation like that. i tell you, if americans do not learn to put the...

Export/import bank or china being a currency manipulator. all of these things are ancillary, is that right? >> i think theres truth in that. remember, you want to -- when youre president, sometimes you want to do like a west virginia coal truck driver and take your half out of the middle. these are broadly popular things. being against russia is broadly popular. yes, there is a constituency within the republican party that is pro putin. but its small. thats a small number of people. those who ar...

Saying maybe america needs to be isolationists, maybe america needs to narrow itself, yeah, americans on foreign policy i find follow the lead of the president, the secretary of state. they dont lead. they understand its a complicated world. if you tell them this is important, i mean, people say americans dont have stamina because were kind of a fickle democracy. we have been on the banks of the rufr defending germany for eight decades. weave been in korea, in japan. americans are willing to do ...

You need leadership that explain to americans that part of what the united states has done ever since the 1940s is try to construct a peaceful world order in which united states can survive world trade survives and u.s. economy grows. its something that presidents from franklin roosevelt have explained to the american people and theyve supported and gonna long with it for eight, nine, ten decades. but if leaders start questioning the value of this and saying maybe america needs to be isolationis...

Between isolationism, frankly, and internationalism is just that one word, country, america. >> and which side is winning right now? >> i think that the isolationists are probably still winning, but i also think that some of the realities are becoming apparent. for example, in my state, the finance minister of mexico told me that mexico does more business with arizona than it does with spain. if you cut off that trade across border between arizona, and sa nora, mexico, im telling you would you h...

How do you think this isolation of the -- is with the tariff plans and that he doesnt deal with the du in a very respectful way and mr. president america first dont you think this is going to weaken the american union and why are you so scared of adversity in the news, in the media that you speak so often of fake news and things after all that cannot be proven the fact that you have been wiretapped by mr. obama. >> nice friendly reporter. first of all, i dont believe in an isolationist policy. b...

Mexico that feed into this joint supply production chain that nafta is responsible for creating over the past 20 years. >> the impact around the world, the idea that we are becoming isolationists. >> this is something that ive been very concerned about as someone that has lived and worked with for decades, the public diplomacy footprint of the united states is being profoundly affected and many nations are seeing this critically important relationship between mexico and the united states, to fri...

This is where donald trump is going to be living, with his family. i cant believe sean put the itching powder in the bed, as a prank on trump. obama would let you do that. think about where we came from 18 months ago when you and i were talking about this movement that we had seen on the radio for years.ov economic populism, questioning these trade deals, having borders that matter. having immigration, but smart immigration. they look down upon those, and called them protectionists, isolationist...

Been an opportunity to challenge the new administration to get it right. >> jon meacham, i think you are probably a bit like me, and i, obviously, and you are a pretty good historian like me -- im joking, you are great. i think in terms obviously of time periods, and i sit and look at the clock ticking, and were almost a fifth of the way through the 20th century, and our foreign policy in the 21st century, it has just been disastrous. it has been inconsistent and willsonian, and then it has been...