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There is something to what david's saying in terms of his actions. he wants to be close to china with his business relationships. politically he said they're raping the u.s. >> most observers would say he is dramatically changing our position vis-a-vis china. i know it's true because everybody in washington is panicked over what this means. the one thing i see is this, which is no longer are we going to shed america's interests. i think he's going to put america's economic interests front and center. and i think china understands this very clearly as well. i think we can make all of the -- you...

Say that the russians would have of course favored donald trump. why? you look at candidate trump's position vis-a-vis russia. whether nato, crimea, eastern ukraine, all these issues that candidate trump held out were much more beneficial to russia than his opponent's. there was also of course apparently personal animus between vladimir putin and hillary clinton dating back to her time as secretary of state. but it's not that much of a leap to say, yeah, it would have been simply better for putin had trump been elected. >> but they didn't really believe he could be. they believed the polls as ...

Before the resignation which spicer now says was asked of flynn and flynn of course says he decided to resign, we don't know which is the truth here, but i think there is great doubt as to whether something illegal was perpetrated or something was done that is contrary to the interest and the security of united states and shows a compromised position vis-a-vis one of our principal adversaries in the world, russia. >> would any investigation be able to whether in the house or the senate, would bit able to hear the phone intercepts between michael flynn and the russian ambassador? >> i would cer...

Republicans in congress, they have said that this is too little too late. in other words they aren't saying this step by obama yesterday should not have been taken, they are arguing that it should have been taken much sooner and, in fact, much tougher so the risk, i think that president-elect trump faces when he assumes office is a growing divide between his views on russia and his interests in buddying up and becoming pals with putin and republicans in congress who do see russia and putin as a thread, the hacking as a major attack on the united states and the need for a much tougher position ...

Foreign policy discussions are going to be like under the trump presidency, which i think are going to be very different than they have been in the past under a lot of other presidents. i think that one of the things we're going to have to get used to is the idea that when donald trump tweets something, it's going to be followed up by explanations of what he actually meant within those 140 characters by his supporters. i think in this case when it comes to modernizing our nuclear program and understanding our position vis-a-vis russia, this does send a message that things are not going to be n...