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Sources who say that he views a win on north korea as something that could help him tremendously in the midterms. ma marry that with his obsession of undoing whatever obama was for and you have a pretty pathological picture of foreign policy making. we have something from obama's statement today. there are few issues more important to the security of the united states than the potential spread of nuclear weapons or the potential for even more destructive war in the middle east. that is why today's announcement is so misguided, walking away from the jcpoa turns our back on america's closest all...

This, this morning. he is at his florida home, mar-a-lago. one of the tweets being when a country is no longer able to say who can and who cannot come in and out, especially for reasons of safety and security, big trouble. jonathan, how do you think that the obama white house or under the advisor and leadership of secretary kerry would react to this? obviously this is a rex tillerson issue now as the new secretary of state. >> it is. this is probably the single biggest issue, thomas, that's on new secretary of state tillerson's desk. you know, he's coming in in a difficult time. i would say th...

What you are seeing. how do you think things are going two weeks in? >> i can't believe it's only been two weeks. it's mind boggling. i think for the first two weeks we have seen a lot of chaos in foreign policy making, particularly when the white house tries to do things very quickly without talking to their cabinet secretaries or the experts who will actually be implementing the policy. the rollout of the refugee ban is a perfect example. mike flynn putting iran on notice. that's a statement that doesn't mean much but that is designed to stand tough. this is an administration that doesn't ex...

Withdraw and iran with sanctions. do you agree with this? >> there's been a shift. something going on with the foreign policy making that's interesting. adults are moving in to some level. mattis and tillerson, the process becoming more institutionalized. now when these things are happening, national security advisor maybe sends a message to state department, tillerson, how should we respond to israeli settlements, looks at it, for 50 years responded we're against it. maybe that's factored into the process. nikki haley comments at u.n. where she condemned russian aggression and talked about ho...

Each nation and they sort of think, trump especially learning this, why would i not double down? >> jenna: what do you think about that, julie? it's not so much a reset but a reaffirming of the established relationship. >> i think that's right, and they also share very obviously the conservative platform in terms of politics. so it sort of a natural alignment. yesterday in her speech, which was very good, the prime minster invoked the whole reagan-thatcher dynamic, so there is echoes of that at work as we enter into the new bilateral relationship. but actually i wanted to say that the first th...