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someoninto isis is incredibly hard to begin with, think that it shows -- it sends a message not just -- forget about what he did with the russians but it sends a message to the rest of the world that perhaps questions where his judgments and alignments are and the rest of the world does not look towards russia with a kind eye. most of our allies certainly don't. so it won't help the israelis, when he goes back to europe, the saudis as well, it won't help things in terms of whether they want to share information or how they'll deal with president trump. i think it adds a lot of question. >> noel, andrew mccarthy writing for the national review saying the problem is what president trump said to the russians, comey is one of us, there is no excuse for a president of the united states to run down an american for the consumption of our russian adversaries, particularly an american fighting against russian operations against our country. it is indefensible. do you think the speech we're about to see coming up is in any way going to help the president
isis. and recognizing the threat that poses. but in terms of kind of the role of the global community verse shifting power and back toward individual nations, toward global integration and the economy, toward the free flow of people and products and ideas, they are on very different pages. as we said, even in his victory speech, he talked about maintaining action on climate where the president may be days away from removing the u.s. from one of the biggest diplomatic achievements of the obama administration, which is the global agreement for a paris climate treaty. as i said before, you are seeing politics being kind of shaken from the axis because we have a new divide. we have a new fault line that doesn't entirely trap with the existing political alignments in many countries where essentially politics is being slit along the lines of transformation versus restoration. you have voters who are fundamentally comfortable with a more globalized world, more
these are two groups who -- or who countries aligned very much against assad. now, iran, the assad regime and russia have condemned the attack. we have yet to hear from hezbollah here in lebanon. hezbollah being the shia-aligned iranian group which is very much in favor of assad and they have proven to be a decisive factor in this conflict. we'll start to hear more reaction. right now what we're hearing is basically the same alignments, the usual suspects aligned against each other in this region. they've been active and they've been making the kind of statements you'd expect to hear. ayman? >> it's alex again. is there any group outside of those you mentioned, hezbollah, iran, russia, that you would expect to condemn this attack from the united states? is there anyone you think is percolating who will come out and say, bad move? . >> reporter: we -- i wouldn't necessarily expect anyone to come out -- any of the
i like people to be able to speak up. it shouldn't be partisanship, maybe there's not just two options, i like the more radical -- >> tom: it becomes left and right, everything is democrat and republican. >> i think donald trump is hideously unfit for the presidency. however, i think many people think that to say that is to dis- republicans. which it isn't, donald trump, i think we do need to discuss politics more now than we would have in say 2007. the idea is that we need to talk about what our political alignments are. doing that cannot be discussing various shades of the left. >> tom: he's saying stop going after trump supporters you lousy
terrorists so that's one thing. >> neil: and this will test our relation ship with russia. >> it is. it's a different policy as in eastern europe. so between all of this, you have a deal maker with president trump that will leak at the strategic alignments of interests and say hey, mr. putin, it's time to talk. and the same with north korea and the chinese. we haven't put pressure on them in the past. these meetings will give a new opening for that. they're doing things in the south china sea and building islands that we don't like. let's get concessions elsewhere as part of a larger deal. >> neil: well-put, pete. thank you. meantime, the president has made it clear he's not a fan of susan rice and thinks she might have committed a crime. a key house intelligence committee will be looking at that and also looking at how soon and how quickly she can testify. after this.
part of what we've seen is as we talk about that trajectory, a huge part of playing the role is partisan alignments have supervened over these institutional ones. there's fidelity to your party over fidelity to the legislative branch. and with merrick garland, people felt like that's what happened. ultimately it was our team says we're not giving this guy a vote so we can preserve it for our party as opposed to we will play the constitutionally prescribed role of advising and consenting. >> well, the legislature didn't consent so you're right there was a decision not to consent but your broader point is surely true which is the founders envisioned a world where when you serve in the legislature you don't have partisan lenses as the first thing you think about. you should think about jealously guarding your prerogatives for the branch. i'm the third most conservative guy by voting record but i'm not
executive? part of what we've seen is as we talk about that trajectory, a huge part of playing the role is partisan alignments have sup supervened over these institutional ones. there's fidelity to your party over fidelity to the legislative branch. and th merck garnd, people felt like at's what happened. ultimately it wasur team says we're not giving this guy a vote we can preserve it for our party as opposed to we will play the constitutionally prescribed role of advising and consenting. >> well, the legislature didn't consent so you're right there was a decision not to consent but your broader point is surely true which is the founders envisioned a world where when you serve in the legislature you don't have partisan lenses as the first thing you think about. you should think about jealously guarding your prerogatives for the branch. i'm the third most conservative
manipulator. it's overused this term that he's a kgb guy. he's a kgb guy from east germany, forged in that mentality. the problem is where trump has seemed to back away from a tougher stance of what russia is doing around the world, whether it be in europe, alignments with china or, of course, in the middle east, i think it weakens the position. my great hope is this is part of mr. trump's, the art of the deal, he's trying to put on a good tone and when he enters office he'll take a tougher stance. one indicator that might be true is when putin said he was going to increase russian strategic deterrent force, trump said we're going to do the same thing. that's a good thing, quit pro quo. >> we had a professor on earlier saying putin is in it for the long haul, a game of chess for
i say that not being cute. the democratic nominee won the popular vote. obviously, this is an extremely competitive race and i would expect that future races will be expected as well. i certainly think it's true that politics in america right now are a little up for grabs. some of the old alignments within both parties, democrat and republican are being reshaped. although the results of this election involve some of the specifics of the candidates andn every election, democrats do have to do some thinking about how do we make sure that the message we have is received
and i say that not being cute. the democratic nominee won the popular vote. obviously this was an extremely competitive race. i would expect that future races will be competitive as well. i certainly think it's true that politics in america right now are a little up for grabs. some of the old alignments within both parties, democrat and republican, are being reshaped. although the results of this election involved some of the specifics of the candidates and aren't going to be duplicated in every subsequent election, democrats do have to do some thinking about how do we make