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Setting a red line and failing to meet it. >> repeatedly. >> here is president trump. >> the obama administration had a great opportunity to solve this crisis a long time ago when he set the red line in the sand. and when he didn't cross that line after making the threat, i think that set us back a long ways. >> is president trump worried about drawing the line of heavy price and ending up in the same spot that president obama did? >> not at all because we're not about rhetoric. we're about state craft. we're about action, whether it's a bomb in afghanistan, whether about 50 missiles on this a...

Agencies that the trump campaign and now president trump has indicated for months now. and general flynn also who was fired as you remember by president obama from running one of those intelligence agencies, the defense intelligence agency, clearly didn't trust them. so i suspect some of this was simply to be able during this transition time to go around agents that the trump people felt were in favor of hillary clinton and president obama. that is my guess. collusion i think is a tough word there. i mean, talking to the russian ambassador isn't necessarily collusion. that is just state craft....

That what do you expect to emerge from this meeting before we even got the read out. we understand the president is very positive on it. >> one of the things that the president has accomplished on this trip is put to complete silence the critics who said that donald trump is not ready for prime time on the foreign stage, handling foreign policy. that he lacks the experience to do good state craft, look at what's happened already on this trip. he has warmed relations with people with whom we had frosty relations. he has gone and he has been the toast of the town in places where it's tough to be...

Transgressive organization that has been in cahoots with russia. president trump's embrace of them is something which is discouraging and sad, to use his term. now that i've been in government, i really see the damage that they've done. the most recent release affected an area that i worked with about the migration of isis off of nonencrypted platforms to encrypted platforms and the revelations about what we know about how to get inside encrypted platforms. very, very, very damaging information. >> how do you conduct state craft in the era of wikileaks? >> you can't. and the other thing, brian...

Balance. >> this is absolutely lesson one of kissinger's state craft. it's clear that jared kushner and i think also clear that president trump has understood that, internalized that. up next we'll apply all of this to the big foreign policy challenges right now, including the north korea standoff and the massive bomb dropped on isis fighters in afghanistan yesterday. we'll also be joined by presidential historian michael besh loss to help put the week in historical perspective. national security analyst juan ser ratty on wikileaks and nbc's hallie jackson with a live report from the souther...