can t substitute. the other countries won t step in, europe can t. congress hasn t done much. you have a good guys ahead of it, senator corker. he is leaving next year. again, if we pull back, i don t see anyone filling our shoe or that vacuum selectively, problematic is that its could be iran in the middle east, china or north korea in asia, russia and parts of europe. there is not a positive alternative to our doing. yes what the president seems to miss is we will pay an enormous price. help wants to make america great again, this is not a world in which america can t be great. we can t insulate ours from this mayhem and the world. they with us. we will have all the great stuff from richard s book, growth rate being up, isis rolled back t. positive news the glass half full is all coming up on morning joe. stay with us for that as well. and if president obama s
if you knew how much the disarray the world would be in, gamp year after the trump administration, who is controlling this, who is the hand of god looking at the world and saying we are the leaders, we will fix some of these. i have been called many things in my life, never an optimi optimist. this is new to me. i think the alternative to a u.s.-led world the sort of world we ve seen for three-quarters of a century beginning with world war iit. alternative to a no u.s. led world is a no led world, we re beginning to see it in asia with north korea emerging, china and russia playing mixed sort of roles, what we just talked about pakistan going its own way. you go around the world and increasingly, we re seeing countries no longer deferring to the united states and the united states is not isolationist. we re involved but
intermittently, in very narrow terms w. reno longer involved in cross the border alliance relationship, we pull out of the tpp. suddenly we create a space for cho into emerge geoeconomically in asia. we pull out of the paris agreement and the europeans have fundamental questions about what the occupation is. we ignore human rights violations, including in russia, turkey and philippines and single them out today and in a single country if iran. richard, you say the u.s. is not isolationist under trump. you used the word abdication. you say it s a few way for an empire or great state to decline, one we haven t seen before. there is truly unprecedented, in history, great powers fade away, either they bankrupt themselves the way the soviet union did in places kwliefk with the cold war or they re surpassed by a rising power, where you come from britain, in