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Ambassador nikki haley did, this is about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. admiral? >> that is incorrect as a philosophy in international relations. what you want to do is keep your friends close, your allies even closer. those with whom you have treaty commitments. and expand outward from there. certainly over time you should have conversations with your opponents. i thought the ambassador baucus in china was a good example of that. we can have conversations. but those we want closest to us are our treaty allies. then our partners. then our friends. on the outer ring is whe...

>> i think it went extremely well on the front end, namely, the visits and re-odd and jerusalem. it went okay, great visuals in rome. it is not go as well in either the nato meetings are the g-7 meetings. and the administration not to pay attention to those and sure those things up. the president was right in making that charge to the europeans, you need to live up to your treaty commitments. i think it would have gone to better if -- much better in private, maybe not been as effective. but it would have gone down a little bit better if he made it publicly, if he had reaffirmed our so-called a...

>> i think it went extremely well on the front end, namely, the visits and re-odd and jerusalem. it went okay, great visuals in rome. it is not go as well in either the nato meetings are the g-7 meetings. and the administration not to pay attention to those and sure those things up. the president was right in making that charge to the europeans, you need to live up to your treaty commitments. i think it would have gone to better if -- much better in private, maybe not been as effective. but it would have gone down a little bit better if he made it publicly, if he had reaffirmed our so-called a...

Boundaries of different treaty commitments, including the invasion of crimea. so trump is going to have to demonstrate his ability to stand up to putin and that may be a part of what he's predicting with this tweet is that he's willing to do so. but there are so many other ways which, in the course of his campaign, he's made troubling positive statements about putin. so i don't know what to make of this. i do think that the united states retains a very large and lethal nuclear arsenal, the 7,000 warheads we have today, we have plans in place to modernize them and able to deliver a knockout blo...

He says he considers the greatest geopolitical disaster of modern times the dissolution of the soviet union. he's trying to reassemble it as much as possible. putin only understands strength. listen nobody wants to see a shooting war between united states and russia. two new superpowers, you don't engage in a shooting war. but there are things we can be doing. we should be standing with ukraine. and arming ukraine right now so the ukrainians can defend themselves. we should honor our treaty commitments. we should have when putin invaded crimea we should have immediately gone forward and instal...