very favorable to this global oligarchy running democratic nations and destroying the atlantic alliance, the globalist world and democracy as it s been spread since the end of the world war ii. you know, sara, to that very point, there was a lot of criticism that came from republicans about president obama, you know, doing the iran deal. there s a lot of antipathy to it. donald trump of course has now junctioned that deal. but is that deal was made in close conjunction with our western allies. it was a pan-western, european and american deal. and so it was a group approach with iran. in this case, donald trump is really going the opposite drengs, rigdreng direction, right? the people we see as our allies he is hitting them with trade sanctions and there is this clooefing toward auto cattic governments. what does that mean? you study these kinds of states. what would that mean if you had a realignment of the world where the united states was not a de facto, you know, leader of the
personal gain, clep tok krasy. how concerned should we be about an american president joining that notorious list. joining me caton dawson, perry bacon jr., and sara kenzior. sara, you are new to our panel so i want to go to you first. americans say they want a businessman to be the president and think he could be a better president but we ve never actually had a better less coney situation where the president of the united states was in a position to profit from his office. educate us on what that could mean for the people here and for donald trump. i think it s important that americans realize this can happen here, that this is something that has happened in countries all over the world.
to build hotels in mumbai. the children and trump have shown that they love to make more money, so why would should children stop attempting to sell his name just because he s in the white house. he said to the new york times we re going to keep doing this. he has a brand and i think there s a lot of work and expense for the children to protect that brand. sara, before we go, what about that aspect, the fact that all of these hotels in mumbai, in istanbul, places around the country that are not as secure now become a security risk because they ve got the trump name on them? yeah, i think that s important that that could be a security risk. it s something that both is troublesome in terms of being targeted but also something that god forbid there is an attack of some kind can easily be manipulated. other scholars in other regimes
russian president vladimir putin. just as a thought experiment. what would happen if the world s sole economic and military power were to alienate europe, canada and mexico and alie itself instead with china, russia and north korea? joining me now is david korn, and malcolm nance, sara kenzior and christine awn. thank you all for being here. i want to go around the table and just sort of get your take on that question, david. yeah. on the question of whether or not we re seeing a de facto realignment where the world is, you know, used to the united states sort of being a-leader if not the de facto leader of the west. now donald trump has had a break with the west and seems to prefer or want or be eager with an alignment with china, we have trade issues with, but he s very positive toward north korea,