military options and what that might look like. we need to keep the door open to diploma diplomacy. we have to act unilaterally and take a step that may not have the outcome that we want. this is a very complicated situation. i want to see the state department and the defense department beef up their asia experts that can be a part of this. they re not in place yet. that would help the team a lot. we have the thad anti-missile defense system in place, operational, fully loaded. used kinetic injury to knock down a nuclear missile. all the people that opposed the thad system, it s a good thing we insisted on it. that s right. in the obama administration when i was at the state department, it was a top priority to get that system operational. but to be very clear, missile defense, even as good as it is, that we develop, is not perfect. we don t want a situation where the only tool left is relying on
first candidate. we now have an america first president, and we have an america first budget. the president believes in diploma diplomacy, we believe this budget protects that core function of the state department. when the president s credibility is down, should the united states be retracting from its role abroad? i m joined by the round table. former state department spokes american, mark jacob sell, senior fellow with the pell center. and normer secretary of defense. i don t really like the word america first, it has remnants and is receipt sent of the 1940s situation, people saying we re not going to fight hitler for all the wrong reasons. this fortress america mentality, which is not going to talk to the rest of the world. and it s scary when we re going to try to communicate with the world. no more diplomacy, no more students coming here, justus all alone surrounded by this moat of
including north dakota and south dakota. still to come, entering diploma diplomacy. also it s in my stuff. all kinds of toys from trump. they pay me millions and hundreds of millions. that s how then candidate donald trump wants described dealings with saudi arabia. we examine some of the less kind things he said and what it would mean in terms of relation of u.s. and saudi arabia. we travel back to venice. swept up on a tide of i intoleran intolerance, yet thriving all the same.
anniversary. that was the last straw. what was the first one? where did this crack start? that seems to be what i think everybody has been trying to figure out. one of the surprising things is people have this idea of the puppet master theory about how powerful cheney was and the truth was even if you look at the early days and find examples where bush didn t go along with vice president chenno important things. cheney wanted to attack iraq back in july of 2002. the president said no. it begins to draw apart even further after the invasion and after the weapons aren t there and after things go bad in iraq. the president thinks about his second term. what is he go to do some he begins to go more towards diploma diplomacy. north ka rhea and iran and cheney feels that s moving away from the principals they shared.
kate are consistent with the nuclear weapons program. as we look at secretary kerry s meeting this afternoon. it has costs as well as benefits. if there were no costs to diploma diplomacy, the costs that we see with it, the benefit is time. time is important, it allows them to overcome scientific obstacles and they are going to play for relief of the sanctions. i m afraid we are going to give them to them. they are railing against the sanctions calling them in humane and violent. he has talked about, i believe this may have been the foreign minister there. step by step dealings, what is that all about. this is a very important point.