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They have brought together a coalition to put tough sanctions on iran and to push back on their behavior in the region. and so i think the peace plan is going to be difficult. but overall, i think it was a helpful reset to focus more on supporting u.s. allies in the region, gulf states, israel and countering irans maligned activity. >> peace plan, richard haass? >> not going to work. this whole idea of an outside-in using the sunni arab states to somehow deliver the palestinians is not going to ...

About what u.s. intentions might be and what they might use to force north korea to do something. and so richard is right. the fact that the prospect they are going to give up all their nuclear weapons, all their ability to defend themselves against major powers is an illusion. and it was certainly an illusion to go to hanoi and think you were going to get a major breakthrough. i think the big question now is, is it even possible for donald trump to get some kind of agreement before the 2020 ele...

They have focused on the priority, national security issue, which is the iranian nuclear threat. they have brought together a coalition to put tough sanctions on iran and to push back on their behavior in the region. and so i think the peace plan is going to be difficult. but overall, i think it was a helpful reset to focus more on supporting u.s. allies in the region, gulf states, israel and countering irans maligned activity. >> peace plan, richard haass? >> not going to work. this whole idea ...

Relations, former director of policy planning at the state department. robin wright is a contributing writer for the "new yorker" and fellow at the woodrow wilson center. >> and matt kerner is deputy director for strategy in the skoe cough center strategy and security and professor at georgetown. richard, the premise of this deal, of this summit, seemed to be everybody else thinks we should do these summits bottom-up, you know, deputies and officials negotiating the minutia and then the formal p...

At least wrong, often treasonous. if you were a north korean negotiator, you would surely be wondering if any deal made by the trump administration would be honored or properly implemented by its successors. and you would be right to wonder. americas bitter polarization at home now exacts a price in the nations credibility and consistency abroad. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. and lets get started. >> so donald trump was not able to close the deal ...

Korea to denuclearize, not just rhetorically, theyre not going to do it. they have concluded that nuclear weapons are essential for their security and position as a country. so either we have to give up on that goal and accept lesser outcomes, or think about another policy, whether its the use of force or the use of economic sanctions, all of which have major shortcomings. if we think we can negotiate our way to a north korea that gives up nuclear weapons and missiles, were kidding ourselves. so...

The fact that the prospect they are going to give up all their nuclear weapons, all their ability to defend themselves against major powers is an illusion. and it was certainly an illusion to go to hanoi and think you were going to get a major breakthrough. i think the big question now is, is it even possible for donald trump to get some kind of agreement before the 2020 election. this is a drawn-out process that involves incredible details of inspections and setting up an apparatus to go in and...

Fundamental at work here, fareed. which is simply im not sure there is a deal. if the goal is to get north korea to denuclearize, not just rhetorically, theyre not going to do it. they have concluded that nuclear weapons are essential for their security and position as a country. so either we have to give up on that goal and accept lesser outcomes, or think about another policy, whether its the use of force or the use of economic sanctions, all of which have major shortcomings. if we think we ca...

On friday morning a military spokesman announced that america had begun the process of its deliberate withdrawal from syria. those words ended some of the contradictions from the administration and the confusion from the rest of the world about whether the administration was actually going to pull out in the short term. the announcement came white secretary of state mike pompeo is making a middle east tour hitting all the major capitals to reassure allies that america has their backs. joining me...

Speech, for the auto democrats in the region, in fact, i think the speech was actually addressed to the autocrats rather than to the people. >> robin, when you look at the speech the thing that struck me in terms of policy was the whole speech was almost constructed as an anti-iranian speech. that seems to be at the heart of the president or secretary pompeos middle east strategy. >> absolutely. this is the core issue which secretary of state pompeo, national security adviser john bolton and the...