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Weaknesses, i don't think they'd want to touch it. >> the other point of entry for democrats say that our party traditionically agrees, and when it comes to human rights stuff, they can actually position themselves as tougher on china than trump. it's the only sector of the china conversation. >> to go with human rikts rights. >> i think you laid it out just now. we support this effort to reign china in. but here is the limit of that. and a lack of leadership beyond that by this president is causing these particular problems. so they can identify that they just need to step into the game. >> d...

The people sing." >> that's "le mis." [ laughter ] >> this is the point where the real danger here and the president not speaking up is when that vacuum is open, then these democracy forces, they become radicalized. they're waiting for us to come in and say, look, we have your back. you can push things a little bit farther now because we're there. if you have dissidence, we'll step in. >> david, can you explain, you know, i don't think it's an accident that mody did what he did in india with kashmir. i don't think it's an accident what we've seen with japan and south korea that without an amer...

Especially today. >> david, let me do the, what some may push back on when they hear all of us arguing this sort of, well, america, whether we like it or not we are the world's policemen. they may push back and say to what end has that worked? we lost blood and treasure in afghanistan. why should we get involved, right? that is the donald trump foreign policy philosophy. frankly, that is probably where 40% of the country sit on these issues. >> so, people are right that this is not a moment when we should engage in the sense of looking for new wars overseas. i've been thinking the last couple ...

In hong kong. i didn't even bring up the democracy movements we have nothing about to say in russia. a top administration official actually said the hong kong matter is an internal matter for china. any other modern president would also be strenuously opposing missile launches or rebuking allies or trying to ease tensions in kashmir or trying to ease tensions between japan and south korea. instead, the message this american president is sending to foreign governments is it's your business if you want to crack down on protesters or journalists or sow disinformation. the unwillingness of washing...

Jason johnson is politics editor at theroot.com. all of them are msnbc contributors. david, i want to start with you because this has been one of those -- we've been talking about this inside our own news room for quite some time going there is this giant foreign policy problem sitting at the president's desk. but it's hard to articulate because the problem is inaction. you did a good job of articulating it in this big picture, but this isn't the easiest story to explain to the public. explain what we mean by by inaction? >> so, chuck, it is a complicated world. today's a day when we felt as i...