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It. you saw it with the acting ambassador who's running the embassy in the uk, acting like a normal gracious ally while the president is tweeting this feud. >> yeah, chris, it makes it challenging and incredibly difficult. i think you saw it reflected in secretary mattis' remarks over the weekend. bear with us. essentially told 24e78, we'll get there in the end. it will be messy, but bear with us in the meantime. that is not the message that we should be sending to our allies. nor is it the message that they want to hear. our allies are partners. even our adversaries need to know where we stan...

Difficult. i think you saw it reflected in secretary mattis' remarks over the weekend. bear with us. essentially told 24e78, we'll get there in the end. it will be messy, but bear with us in the meantime. that is not the message that we should be sending to our allies. nor is it the message that they want to hear. our allies are partners. even our adversaries need to know where we stand, who we are, what we're for, what we're against. that is not something that we're getting in the mess of this administration, unfortunately. >> naveed, do you think this country's reaction to these sorts of eve...

And he's called upon to serve in that ever-important role as commander in chief. >> na veed, the sub text here that it gets down to the president's view on islam and on muslims and the degree to which they are implicated or suspect as a class. this is a man who called on a ban. london has a muslim mayor. khan spoke incredibly movingly about his connection to his faith. and how he viewed these attacks through that prism. and it seems inescapable to me that's part of the sub text of this back-and-forth. >> absolutely, chris. i couldn't agree with you more there. look, besides the sort of, you kn...

In chief. going back through history, not only the fdr quote that josh mentioned, but president kennedy telling khrushchev they will not be hindered by cuba. that is what the world looks to when there is a crisis, when there is a challenge that we're collectively facing. with these antics, both president trump and his top aides including dan scavina in this case, delivered one of the most powerful weapons in our arsenal. by weakening this weapon, the president will have less credibility now when push comes to shove. and he's called upon to serve in that ever-important role as commander in chie...

Doctrine or operating ideology, whatever you want to call it. i'll start with you, naveed, when i'm speaking to those at conferences in europe or africa, that's the question they're asking. they don't know what that is right now. but if you had to put it into a sentence, what would it be? >> well, that's a great one. it seems to be twitter diplomacy. that's the catch phrase. the problem as you illustrated, richard, is not so much the lack of policy we have here, but the dangerous part is how our friends and our allies and adversaries alike interpret what that policy is. my goodness, every day ...