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Donald trump's internal weakness. >> david, he has been in power now for 18 years. he will be in power for another six, at least. you've conducted diplomacy at the highest levels. it matters when you have that much experience. this guy has been around the block several times when there's no -- nobody else is running a major country who has been around for 18 years. >> not just the 18 years he has been but the six years coming. i think it's important to see the russia/china relationship, not just the russia/america relationship. we look at the bilateral. of course, this is the year, 2017, in wh...

France, young people can't even get work. they do collect pay of various kinds. he has also shown a very tough face on immigration and he has been willing to steal the issues. go a certain measure to they talk about things people do care about, irresponsibly, provocatively, in ways laden with all kinds of ugly feelings but seize on real issues. the challenge for responsible candidates is to say how far can you go? the analogy i keep invoking is the way politicians of the center right in europe dealt with the challenge from communism. they built social insurance networks to take the communist s...

We are back with susan glasser, luke harding and david milliband. david, two years ago, we were all obsessed with the idea that isis was taking over the world, syria was falling apart. the situation seemed pretty bleak, particularly with regard to isis. is it fair to say, as the iraqi prime minister now says, that isis has been defeated? it is essentially destroyed? >> i think it's been defeated militarily, but it hasn't yet been defeated politically and ideologically. the fight for the soul and the allegiance of sunni communities across the middle east is very much alive. we've got people on ...

Delegitimize donald trump. and, of course, that's what trump himself thinks. >> david, do you recall a head of state taking entry into a domestic dispute in quite the same way? putin really attacked the democrats, said this an attempt to delegitimize trump, he has done a great job, brought the stock market up. >> i can't recall the chief booster -- chief international booster of a u.s. president being a country that has been trying to destabilize its democratic institutions. one thing occurred to me. i wonder how successful vladimir putin really thinks his play has been. obviously, he has caus...

Europe, do you think that those issues that david fromme talked about -- after all, it is immigration that is at the heart of this right-wing populism in europe. is that still strong? has it peaked? is it waning? how would you describe it? >> that's a really good question, have we hit peaked populism? people like to ask themselves continuously on both sides of the atlantic. a peculiarly awful candidate. i would caution about reading too much into the relative quiet we've seen in europe. david's absolutely right that if, indeed, the far right party did remarkably well. manuel macron's victory i...