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International politics from tuft university, daniel drezner. good to have you on this morning. >> dan, it would be great to start with you. donald trump is now because he saw a fox news report that had a lower third that talked about a caravan of people coming to the united states, he's saying he's going to scrap nafta, can you talk about theism pact on middle-class americans if, in fact, the president did scrap nafta or carry through on his threat because he didn't like a banner on the bottom of a fox news show sunday morning? >> sure. just about everything we know would be more expensive. re...

International relations based entirely on hard power. not a big institution guy. that reinforces donald trump's instinct but from the campaign he was for retrenchment. he was for redesigning american foreign policy to be much more introverted so i'm not sure whether on the foreign policy side he's getting only his instincts reinforced. there does seem to be conflict there. but i wish he would read more. >> he's tweeting again. we'll pull those up. dan drezner? >> he's tweeting again. >> what's interesting, dan, is that -- >> wow. >> you take, like, for instance syria. there's a concern right n...

E-mail, it is virtually impossible for the president and the administration to claim they didn't know anything about it. and it's virtually impossible to believe when the spokesperson says that he won an arbitration, but he's ignorant about why they paid this money. it's impossible to believe. there's too many things that don't add up. i think it's making it worse by dragging it out. they're not going to listen to me, about thank you woubut it w if he would own up to this and focus on things much more important like his upcoming meeting with north korea. >> i'm wondering how dan feels about th...

Committed to it. that should have been outlined prior to accepting this invitation, that's one place they made a mistake. >> was that the reason sarah sanders added a giant as tire ising to the meeting? >> i don't know what it is. it was important to say that, it was important to let people know we're not giving up everything, kim jong-un has the high ground. we're not giving up everything, without them sacrificing something, that should have been stated yesterday. this should have been a beautiful rollout. this should have been something he could say with great pride that his 3resh our, the s...

And somehow gets away with it, and then she says one word wrong, just one word -- she looked up from the paper and she got the order of the words wrong, and the whole roof falls in. that's not on sarah. the marbles aren't coming from sarah. the marbles are coming from the oval office. it's about the president of the united states, not the staff. >> dan, today, sarah sanders seemed to walk back the meeting, saying that, well, certain parameters have to be met and they have to have certain promises. then they walked back their walkback. larry, we'll get you in on the other side. we'll be right b...