have a good relationship with her? i want to bring in foreign a fairs expert bobby gosh and eddie glock back with me. this guy s a former ambassador at large to the state department, a russia expert, said, by and large, other governments don t know whether to laugh or cry at all of this. but in russia, laughter is getting the upper hand. yes, i just got back yesterday from europe, from italy. he s absolutely right. there s a lot of head scratching going on all over the continent. you know, perhaps the best spin you can put on this, and you really have to stretch is that trump likes to keep the russians guessing. he s, you know, giving with one hand, taking with the other. it s a very questionable diplomatic strategy. and here s why that is problematic. it s not just the russians it s all of us. the europeans are guessing. that s not a good situation. you want your allies to know what your strategy is. if you re italian, if you re
diplomats. in a meeting the president said he hoped to have with the russian president vladimir putin to discuss arms control is now in doubt. as white house deputy press secretary told us the ball is in their court. i spoke to a white house officials this morning who told us we should expect no further additional actions taken against the kremlin today, chris. i want to bring in my panel, bobby gosh, former world editor for time magazine. hagash romali. brett stevens is an op-ed columnist for the new york times. and mike hosts the gist, slate s podcast. is this a turning point in the relationship? whether it s a turning point is a little hard to know. 60 is a large number. the fact that the u.s. acted in consent with allies across the world is very significant. the russians have a little wiggle room that donald trump provided with that phone call to
hear the exha lation of relief. putin may be chummy with trump but the u.s. will stand with us on a moment like this. here s what the ambassador told the new yorker. this is in many ways the end of an illusion. the illusion of some sort of grand bargain with putin, under which trump has seemed to operate for so long. even with all of this, the white house says, the president says it still wants to work with russia. i don t think i think that s lavrov s point, right, what s the real message here? i don t expect president trump to change. i don t think we re going to see a change. if his advisers are telling him, for example, not to congratulate putin on his election and he goes against that, i think he s going to think in his mind, if i am going to broker a deal, i have to maintain this. it undermines all our policies on a number of levels. to bobby s point, we shouldn t be surprise order relieved the president took this step. this should be expected.
joining me onset a bobby gosh. thanks so much. i want to talk first about rex tillerson s departure, or his firing shall we say. one of the major areas of disagreement between the former secretary of state and the president was the iran nuclear deal. we have a deadline once again come may i believe. early may. mike pompeo very much on board with the president s belief that we should sort ever get rid of the iran nuclear deal all together, maybe come up with something new. where do you think we ll go with this are considering now that pompeo is feezbly goigoing to b the state department? it is unlikely that he will get push back. there won t be much daylight between the president and state department on any foreign policy. pochl has pompeo has a longer history of being against the iran deal right from the beginning when he was in congress, he denounced the deal saying we need regime change in iran, this is a terrible deal. and so president trump is not going to get push back from
big jackpots like this after recent rules changes are made for longer odds to win it all. i m boris sanchez. more headlines coming in 30 minutes. happy new year. okay. we just said good-bye to a year of worldwide tensions. but with threats from north korea, concerns about russia s influence, what can we expect from the world s hot spots in the year ahead? for more on that, let s bring in foreign affairs columnist bobby gosh. good to have you. good to have you back. good to be here. the list probably remains the same as we begin 2018. we start with north korea. the stakes, the potential. well, the olympics are in february. they are in south korea. you can expect the north koreans to rattle cages when that is going on in the lead up to it.