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And what donald trump is every day telling the people of south korea, every time he tweets, china can solve this problem, if you're a thinking south korean you have to wonder, then why are we looking to you for protection? we don't want to fight a war with north korea. we want someone to restrain north korea and he daily tells people in south korea to look the china. china is closer, bigger, and they make take the advice and collapses the alliance structure in northeast asia. >> donald trump has what he calls the nuclear button. >> there is that. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. ...

South korea that the united states is unreliable and dangerous. and what donald trump is every day telling the people of south korea, every time he tweets, china can solve this problem, if you're a thinking south korean you have to wonder, then why are we looking to you for protection? we don't want to fight a war with north korea. we want someone to restrain north korea and he daily tells people in south korea to look the china. china is closer, bigger, and they make take the advice and collapses the alliance structure in northeast asia. >> donald trump has what he calls the nuclear button. >...

Allies. the dpgratuitous nature which h offends the british, the japanese, koreans, mexico. mattis and mcmaster spend a lot of time cleaning up. i just worry over four years you can pay a pretty big price for just offending, offending, offending. you can damage the alliance structure, which is important to our security. the thing trump cares the most about, keeping terrorists out. how do you do that? cooperation with our allies. >> he's just counting on the fact of the rest of leaders will be more mature than he is. >> we are now free riding, in a sense, on the responsible leadership of theres...

>> and its relationship with europe is different, yes. >> you will have pretty long leadership, assuming teresa may wins, and merkel wins, which looks probably likely. up for election in late september? i think the broader western alliance point of view, having teresa may with a strong majority, having macron newly elected, having merkel, abe in japan, it will contain the damage trump might do to our basic alliance structure. >> part of the reason that macron won was because le pen's association with trump damaged marine le pen. >> the question, richard haas, he gets 65% of the vote there. but...

Why did the u.s. under president obama make this deal or this arrangement in the first place? >> kate, it's part of a broad strategy for the united states to back up our allies so that when germany, for example, takes in a million refugees, which they have over the last couple of years, kind of stands to reason that we would take in at least a few thousand. australia is dealing with tens of thousands of pacific refugees. it's part of an alliance structure where we try and share burdens. i don't think it was an unreasonable number at all. as long as the people are undergoing the vetting properl...