Try Diplomacy News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

From a french perspective? >> i think a man, if anything, it has reinforced president macron's position in the election, which began as a two round election, which begins april 10th, in less than six weeks. he is seem to have tried, tried his best. try diplomacy, perhaps naively. at times. but he gave it is all and he failed. and there is a feeling that you do not change horses in the midst of an apocalypse. and this is a new moment in europe. the eastern and central european members of nato are feeling very directly threatened. and indeed the whole continent. look, president putin has put his...

Deterrence to any policy that we could have. talk to me more about that. >> so out there it's kill or be killed. that's the mentality. they're all in survival mode. they always have been. the assad regime is a minority ruling a majority, different religion. so that's what they're facing out there. what we may see is strikes like this could end up emboldening assad, because iran and russia will dig their heels in and try to support them. >> but to a certainly extent the obama administration did try diplomacy. that obviously didn't work. right. i actually would say -- i believe a greater use the...

Sanctions as much as we can. let's try diplomacy. let's give tillerson a little space to negotiate. >> i want to switch topics to immigration. and as you've been watching, governor, on friday and saturday, we've had courts in the west, federal courts that have basically stopped or struck down parts of the travel ban, the refugee ban that the president has moved upon through his executive orders, just on friday and saturday itself. put that together with what we're going to be seeing in january as, again, the question of immigration comes up. we're going to be hitting 2018. that topic will be c...

>> governor -- >> so, let's try diplomacy. >> and soft power, many supporting that. you have a weakened state department you're alluding to, you have a compromised state department, so the reporting goes, because of not only the secretary himself not seeing eye to eye with the president, and that could be hampering those efforts being made by the united states is what you're saying, from the perspective of north korean kim jong-un. one question for you -- >> for instance -- >> i want to add one more thing to this, governor. >> yes, yes. >> what do you think your perspective is here? because th...

President obama, patience, more pressure. things have not worked. as much as i hate president trump continuing this rhetoric, this personal insults, the preemptive military strikes, i think they're two areas where i give him credit. one, get china more involved. get china to do more. it is questionable how much more they're going to do. but also, these efforts by secretary tillerson. i don't know what they are. all these channels of diplomacy. let him develop them. don't undermine tillerson. let him develop the dialogue. we have to talk to these people. we can't continue this state of tension,...