U.S. Declassifies Asia Strategy, Showing Trump Sought Allies to Contain China
A 2018 strategy document declassified decades ahead of schedule outlines the Trump administration's Indo-Pacific strategy.
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A 2018 strategy document declassified decades ahead of schedule outlines the Trump administration's Indo-Pacific strategy.
Was wondering did you feel a need to tell the president this is what these guys are doing? >> i did tell the president. this is one page out of 250 pages but i did tell the president and hr mcmaster and others that knew of my concerns but keep in mind what i said is this wasn't that these guys thought this was the rogue president, they disagree with his politics, disagreed with of get out of our paris climate agreement, getting out of the iran deal, disagree with moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem so when the president was charting a different course and giving us a strong hand for ...
Of his own appointees who, over and over and over again, and i think one conclusion you can draw is he cannot let go of the idea that he did not win election and a fair fight for himself. and that's what gets at him. >> donna, what stops the house intel committee which maintains as its mandate foreign interference. from looking at an article like this and taking the dates and calling in the people that were in the room at the time? it wasn't john bolton, it was hr mcmaster, dina powell, rex tillerson. what stops him from subpoenaing those witnesses? did anyone hear putin say these things to hi...
Years. i did it -- interviewed hr mcmaster, and a few weeks later he resigned. i interviewed secretary mattis and a few weeks later he resigned. everything okay? [ laughter ] >> i guess i'll have an easy christmas. >> okay. just checking. thanks for the time. first, i want to talk about this horrible story out of pensacola. you definitively say it's terrorism today? >> first of all, it's a very tragic incident, three lives lost, eight injuries and of course we extend our condolences to all the families affected by it and touched by it and our military community down there. no, i can't say it's...
There's probably more going on within nato and the interpol ticks of nato than ever before. so it's a peril ess time. >> we used to sort of, you know, they were low-impact trips. now, we have to watch them like a hawk because anything can happen with donald trump. >> we're waiting for that precisely because these impeachment hearings are going on. and he might want to do and i don't even know what it is to distract us from that. so it's always a worry that we know he wants to deep six nato anyway. and how is it that he's going to do it that he undermines the entire alliance? and and we just ha...