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Positive thing for american foreign interests has been mixed, at best. and among conservative policy thinkers, on foreign policy, there really are -- there is a lot of skepticism about whether the united nations is the right way to pursue americas interests. and so, its not surprising that at this stage in the trump presidency, they decided to downgrade this and say -- and send the signal that, hey, this is less of a priority for us. >> all right, basil smikle, boyd, tim, i wish we had more time...

So richard, this seems to be the sor sort of step that a lot of policy thinkers have wanted to take for a long time. are you satisfied with it? is it enough? >> the good news here is that the united states and others one reacted to what russia did and it was concerted. it was almost like the old days with the united states and its allies forged something of a common position. this is foreign policy on auto pilot. if you expel russian diplomats, shockingly enough theyre going to expel american an...

So i think this is really overstated, people are frankly looking for ways to pick apart trump foreign policy, but i actually think the criticism is quite silly. the g-20 doesnt stand for our values, with china and russia in the it, it has nothing to do with our values, its a way of getting governments to meet to help solve problems and thats all it is. >> we will leave it at that. next on gps, the russian view of the donald trump putin meeting, one of russias foremost policy thinkers, once a clo...

Trump foreign policy. theres plenty to criticize but i actually do think the criticism is quite silly. the g20 doesnt stand for our values, with china and russia in the it, it has nothing to do with our values. its a method of getting heads of government and state to meet to try to solve problems and thats all it is. >> we will leave it at that. next on "gps," the russian view of the trump/putin meeting. one of russias foremost policy thinkers, witness a close adviser to the government, will joi...

President obama. bhau is an added twist. he has the governor experience as well as the congressional experience. you know, the reaching across the aisle part is maybe a little more difficult for mike pence given his ideological record. in terms of how he carries himself and longstanding alliances with policy thinkers, as well asser elected officials. he is a real asset to trump in the early days of the transition. >> all this focus personnel. what do we know about the policy development? is it t...

We had four, five republican plans. we had a moderate plan. conservatives had their own plan that came out of heritage. democrats had a conservative democratic plan, a more progressive democratic plan. i havent seen the republicans rally around an alternative health care plan and thats why this debate is being held in the void. >> its true. one of the ironeies is they too the plan out of heritage and had individual mandate and got put into place by mitt romney and after democrats took it and rep...

Fact. i wouldnt use the rape language, but we love joe. >> stop. he didnt. you manipulated the language. joining us from indianapolis is the republican governor of indiana. mitch daniels. mitch daniels. >> hes going to run for president. >> were thinking you still could maybe -- any time? is there any way? >> pull you in there. >> would you want to? >> 7-7-7. what do you think? >> looking at the field, dont you kind of want to? >> jump in. >> theres nobody id rather do it for than you guys, but ...

the pregame chatter when i was at the fox news debated in orlando this week wasnt about the candidates, it was about the lavish spread put on by the co-sponsor of google. everything from shrimp on a stick to a smoothie bar to a guy mixing root beer floats. but the post-game chatter was about whether rick perry had blown. it "politico" going so far with their headline "texas toast?" at least it was a question mark. it was the ankors at cnn who peppered perry with difficult questions and...