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There have been back channels done before. nixon engaged in some, kennedy engaged in some during transition times, but they are really a lot easier to go do once you're in office. so why would he need the banker? well, if the explanation that the white house would prefer, that this was set up by the russians, setting up a way for putin to be able to talk, maybe that will turn out to be bad judgment but not illegal. the difficulty is that the bank the banker represents would have a huge amount to benefit from the lifting of the u.s. sanctions and international sanctions against russia because o...

Disputes between all the other g7 members and the united states on climate, on trade, on nato's article 5 and on those kinds of things. so this was not unexpected to highlight those kinds of things. i think some of the words angela merkel used have been ignored. she said, you know, after these last few days, i feel we can no longer fully rely on the united states, and she added the uk. at least to some extent there were all these words. she then turned it back towards what she's long wanted to do, say we must as europeans take our destiny more firmly into our own hands. that's sort of the big ...

I don't think it's standard procedure prior to the inauguration of a president of the united states by someone who is not in an appointed position. >> we keep hearing this, jim. the one president at a time thing. can you dismiss that as a formality but that's now how officials are taking it. >> style matters. beyond the issue of what the law is, there are norms. one being there's one president at a time. that's not just a fashion. that's something that's important in part because here you have an impression or at least a question because the outgoing president, who was still president of the u...

The world. so india and china are emerging economies care about their own economies but are also sticking with the climate accords. it's a little bit of cognitive dissidents, if you like, if the u.s. pulls out at this particular point. >> quickly, we know what the president of the united states is doing. he is assessing the deals. that's why you see in his tweet. he doesn't mention environmental accords but saying that's not good for u.s. business. nato, not a good deal because we give so much more than anybody else. you've harped on this point of perception before and reality before. what doe...

To have this agreement. we saw that as we've been discussing over the past several days, over the iraq war and how it broke america with western europe for a period of time. but never fundamentally. right now you have differences over trade, over migration policy in the broader fight over terrorism and about climate. but i want to underline what david said. the reason why the united states led the atlantic alliance after world war ii is there had been two world wars on the continent. they killed tens of millions of people on the continent alone,let alone american losses as well. this is americ...