will say something harder. well, what are they saying? what are they meaning? you know, we ve been out front saying exactly what we re for, what we re doing, what s going on. i m not just saying this. listen, i said it when reagan was president. i like the creative ambiguity. i like a president that goes out and calls the soviet union an evil empire. i know the state department freaked out at the time, the diplomatic corps freaked out at the time. that s fine. creative ambiguity. keep them guessing. david, your thoughts? vladimir putin is a serial war criminal who is committing as we speak crimes against humanity. he s levelled an entire innocent neighbor. he did the same thing in syria. he did the same thing in chechnya. i don t think we should be that concerned with hurting his feelings.
week. the president is fully aware of the department s actions today. and that makes it all the more disturbing that this morning, already knowing that these indictments were coming, the president of the united states said this to the world. i d call it the rigged witch hunt. i think that really hurts our country, and it really hurts our relationship with russia. i think that we would have a chance to have a very good relationship with russia and a very good chance a very good relationship with president putin. i would hope so. joining our discussion now, david rothcoff, ceo of the rothcoff group. also joining us, david fromme, senior editor of the atlantic. david, it seems there is a new item on the trump/putin agenda. and that is extradition. right.
recipient, jack jacobs, along with david rothcoff. you heard him say we re in this stalemate in afghanistan. here s what we heard from president trump yesterday when he talked about the state of armed forces abroad. we re being talked about again as an armed forces. we re really winning. we know how to win. but we have to let you win. they weren t letting you win before. they were letting you play even. we re letting you win. he says we re winning. are we? yes, except that it s going to take a long, long time to actually win. if by winning we mean giving the afghans the opportunity, the capability to defend themselves, that s actually what we re doing. we have special forces, special operations forces, mobile training teams, logical assistance whose sole purpose is
extremist groups and ultimately they work against us. they re also wrong. and i think the one thing we can do for yourselves, for democracy and for our goals in the region is to accurately report accurately what s happening. david who spent a lot of his holiday with 95 and other people caught in traffic. how many people did you have at your house? too many is the answer. say hi to sue for me. happy thanksgiving. and to you. steve bannon gone from the white house and arguably more influential now than he was when he was on the inside. of the season. and it s now just $59! but the real gift isn t what s inside the box. it s what s inside the person who opens it. give ancestrydna, the only dna test that can trace your origins to over 150 ethnic regions-
as the negotiations continue. we have a couple of different lines of discussion that are going on right now but i think it s safe to say we have made progress today. the atmosphere is very constructive. we still have a couple of very difficult issues and we ll be sitting down to discuss those in the very near term. david rothcoff is editor of foreign policy magazine. your magazine uses deadline ss, as well. we have deadlines to get the publication out. is that how it works? that s how that works? david, obviously, the analogy only goes so far. explain to us why it can be okay to move the deadlines and how to interpret it with regard to an ultimate deal. when we use deadlines, we