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Ambassador nikki haley did, this is about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. admiral? >> that is incorrect as a philosophy in international relations. what you want to do is keep your friends close, your allies even closer. those with whom you have treaty commitments. and expand outward from there. certainly over time you should have conversations with your opponents. i thought the ambassador baucus in china was a good example of that. we can have conversations. but those we wan...

>> i think it went extremely well on the front end, namely, the visits and re-odd and jerusalem. it went okay, great visuals in rome. it is not go as well in either the nato meetings are the g-7 meetings. and the administration not to pay attention to those and sure those things up. the president was right in making that charge to the europeans, you need to live up to your treaty commitments. i think it would have gone to better if -- much better in private, maybe not been as effective. but it w...

>> i think it went extremely well on the front end, namely, the visits and re-odd and jerusalem. it went okay, great visuals in rome. it is not go as well in either the nato meetings are the g-7 meetings. and the administration not to pay attention to those and sure those things up. the president was right in making that charge to the europeans, you need to live up to your treaty commitments. i think it would have gone to better if -- much better in private, maybe not been as effective. but it w...

Boundaries of different treaty commitments, including the invasion of crimea. so trump is going to have to demonstrate his ability to stand up to putin and that may be a part of what hes predicting with this tweet is that hes willing to do so. but there are so many other ways which, in the course of his campaign, hes made troubling positive statements about putin. so i dont know what to make of this. i do think that the united states retains a very large and lethal nuclear arsenal, the 7,000 war...

He says he considers the greatest geopolitical disaster of modern times the dissolution of the soviet union. hes trying to reassemble it as much as possible. putin only understands strength. listen nobody wants to see a shooting war between united states and russia. two new superpowers, you dont engage in a shooting war. but there are things we can be doing. we should be standing with ukraine. and arming ukraine right now so the ukrainians can defend themselves. we should honor our treaty commit...

Greatest geopolitical disaster of modern times the dissolution of the soviet union. hes trying to reassemble it as much as possible. putin only understands strength. nobody wants to see a war between united states and russia. but there are things we can be doing. we should be standing with ukraine. and arming ukraine right now so the ukrainians can defend themselves. we should honor our treaty commitments. we should have when putin invaded crimea we should have gone forward and installed the ant...

Greatest geopolitical disaster of modern times the dissolution of the soviet union. hes trying to reassemble it as much as possible. putin only understands strength. nobody wants to see a war between united states and russia. but there are things we can be doing. we should be standing with ukraine. and arming ukraine right now so the ukrainians can defend themselves. we should honor our treaty commitments. we should have when putin invaded crimea we should have gone forward and installed the ant...

Disgraceful. this administration has been the most antagonistic administration to israel in the history of this country. >> last question. so you mentioned number three is putin. we talked about terrorism, we talked about iran. how do you deal with his territorial ambitions? how do you stop putin? the price of oil has crippled his economy a little bit, but -- >> yes. putin is fundamentally a kgb thug. hes not a complicated man. hes been very candid. he says he considers the greatest geopolitical...

Im reminded what ronald reagan said about the hard left. its not what they dont know. its just what they know isnt so. president obama pioneered what he calls the foreign policy of leading from behind and what that has meant is we havent stwood our allies. we didnt stand with ukraine, an ally we had treaty commitments with. we had been -- this administration has been the most an antagonistic in history to the nation of israel. a couple of weeks there were reports white house was considering sanc...

"washington post." more tourists and architects of world affairs. it $isnt that obama projects a weakness, its that he doesnt project anything. >> i disagree. he does project weakness. this is a man who has rattled a tin saber time and time again. hes in east asia now, he is have iting our allies who are very worried we wont honor our treaty commitments. people may say why does ukraine matter? the fate of ukraine and what putin is allowed to get away with will affect the future of the eurasian l...