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Really on the front lines and do everything we can to institutionalize that and i am going to publicly request that this administration not end our efforts making women's rights and opportunities central to american foreign policy and national [ inaudible ]. [ applause ] >> so i don't need to ask you, i was going to ask you of what you made to the severe proposed cuts to the state department, to the usid budget and women's issues and platforms you started and what you make of the distinct lack of any women, most women, at the security and defense and peace table of this current administration?...

Will the north stop their development of nuclear weapons and how the west can achieve it. trump has become much more militaristic in his tone. the language that's come out of this administration is miles ahead of the previous eight years as far as threatening and dominating and drawing red lines all over the place. so there's nothing tempered about this, how they're speaking. it's good that the united states military is professional enough to hold their fire. but instead of bringing the north koreans towards any peace table or any negotiation or slo stopping the program, it looks like trump ha...

Sorry, regarding syria, we have used the military against isis. we have attempted in the obama administration to use massive amount of diplomacy with the russians and the syrians. and those are only two of the powers, and they're not synchronsed. if you bring diplomacy, economy, information, we're starting to see some informational tools being used against the russians because they have been the ones supporting isis. as long as assad is there, isis will continue to grow. it was just like isis in iraq. as long as maliki was there, they were thriving. so we can do two things at a time. counter m...

Sorry, regarding syria. we have used the military against isis. we have used -- attempted in the obama administration to use massive amount of diplomacy with the russians and the syrians. those are only two of the powers and they're not synchronized. if you bring all the elements of national power to bear, diplomacy, military, economy, information, we're starting to see some informational tools being used against the russians because they have been the ones supporting assad. the last thing i would say is, yes, our main fight should be against isis. but as long as assad is there, isis will cont...

>> reporter: trump insisted he was committed to a peace deal. >> working on it diligently. very important to me also. something we want to do. but it is the parties themselves who must directly negotiate such an agreement. we'll be beside them working with them. >> reporter: he made clear he wasn't giving netanyahu a blank check. >> as with any successful negotiation, both sides will have to make compromises. you know that, right. >> reporter: with a playful tone warned netanyahu to stop settlement expansion in the west bank that has grown. >> i'd like to see you hold back on settlements for a...