that shows the advisers inside the white house, their disagreements. this is the steve bannon view, the america first view of this white house here. so some leaders certainly were not that thrilled by. that wolf, we re getting new word just a short time ago that the president is going to have a one-on-one meeting with the german chancellor here this evening. angela merkel. he will be talking of course face-to-face for the first time on this meeting. he is doing a lot of meetings on the sideline here and you have to wonder if he s doing some, you know, much more of a charm offensive in person because after yesterday many people here think he needs it. wonder if he s going to respond to what you said about not building walls. we know he wants to build a wall between the u.s. and mexico. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. as the president wraps up his first overseas trip, let s take a step back and assessed how he handled it. joined by retired admiral john
the administration. douglas has the story from new york. steve bannon s america first view s dominated the first few days. bannon may have gained inspiration from another nationali nationalistic president. on february 24, 1981 steve bannon just started a new job on the staff of chief of naval operations at the pentagon. the newly elected president ronald reagan gave a controversial nationalistic pro-military speech. it s time to show our pride and thank them. and sonny nas saw nasaw
challenges. let s talk about gambia first. yayah is going to leave the country. the trump team, did they dodge a bullet or is this something that the united states probably would not have gotten directly involved in? well, he has left the country, so there is still regional forces who are there to make sure that he doesn t come back or that nothing kicks off in terms of violence. and it was it was basically the presence of moratania and guinea that helped foster there was some international pressure as well. i think it s really important, even if the trump administration does take this america first view, to realize that we live in a world with everything that affects everywhere else kind of affects us too. and syria, as we know, is a massive humanitarian crisis at the moment. and it s possible that south sudan, which you ve mentioned, could become the second one, which means displacement of people. all of these things matter
it s america s strength that is provocative, that our presence in the world is what causes other people to behave badly to us, and that if we were less in the world, less assertive that things would be better. gene fits path strike called it the blame america first view and i think that s quite descriptive of how obama sees our place in the world. martha: when you look at iran, which i think most people accept as the most dangerous threat to the middle east, and to israel, certainly, that is out there right now, how do you think governor romney would handle that differently? it s a very difficult situation. i think he s trying to convey that after three and a half years, that the obama administration has donnie sepb tim donaghy essentially nothing to slow iran s progress at nuclear weapons down.
was going to articulate, the america first view, i think it was like the punch they serve you on a sunset cruise, it was watered down, it wasn t really strong. he said it a couple of times and he referred to it alongside a phrase, america first doesn t mean america alone. well, okay, one could take issue with that. the bottom line is, this wasn t an aggressive speech, and he took yet another swipe at the media, talking about fake news, eliciting boos from the crowd. he didn t step in it, he didn t mess up, he had a bit of a rough morning on thursday after his meeting with benjamin netanyahu. but on friday for his big speech, he didn t do anything particularly wrong. there was no particular news in the speech. whether he understands that the world is moving along with trade, whether he wants to be part of it or not, is an open question. i want to ask you just about