strategy kind of week that he employed for years. that is not going over too well. you have dozens was photographers and i worry that they were exploited a bit. what was donald trump doing there as a leader and a want to be reality tv character. it is about donald trump and the ratings. this was a staged production meant for television. meant for the cameras. martha: trace has the changes that we saw this week and the response, hi, trace. reporter: in his foreign policy approach. president trump it appears swings from the fences at all time and he did it by pulling the u.s. out of the iran deal. it was praised by some on both sides of the aisle and
someone else deal with things there. now that was clearly not his message in tweets yesterday or comments this morning. it is clear that the president is going to do something, and i think one of the issues to look at is, number one, how critical is he of russia and vladimir putin, which he s been very loathed to do in the past but doing it for the last 24 hours. yes. and tweeting about it. people surprised to see him call out putin by name. pretty rare. also, does he choose to try to build a multi-national coalition? not something that s marked his foreign foles so far but talked with the french president, macron, today is eager to act on this and the brits may be as well. this may be a point where we see some changes in the foreign policy approach that president trump has taken. and john bolton isn t a big fan of the u.n. say that. having said that, there really isn t, is there, a good sense, sort of international consensus about what to do about assad. to your point of the fac
oligarchs, david. and this is all about finding those pressure points. if you were to take president trump out of this equation and think of a traditional foreign policy approach, this is just a logical step in ratcheting up pressure. where can you apply that pressure to putin with the oligarchs who he relies on and who rely on him to make them feel pain for whatever we want to move them on on foreign policy. you put trump back into it and i m curious to see how much the president either embraces this or distances himself from this rhetoricall rhetorically. just yesterday he said wouldn t it be great if we could find a way to be friends with russia. i think we ll see how that plays out in the next day or two. joey jackson, you re a legal analyst. you see our exclusive reporting that mueller s team is going after these oligarchs as they arrive in the united states. they have search warrants and they question them at airports. what do you think of this tactic? well, i think the spe
this is the agency you used to lead. i m sure you have heard a lot about mike pompeo s leadership of it. is he the right person right now to be secretary of state? well, obviously we ll find that out. mike pompeo, as far as i can see, did a good job as director of the cia. he certainly had the trust of the president, which is important. so i think it is important that he would have a better relationship with the president of the united states. secondly, he is more of a traditional foreign policy approach in terms of how you deal with russia and recognize russia as an enemy, how you deal with other countries. i think it s more in line with how mcmaster and jim mattis and john kelly, for that matter, all view foreign policy. so that s a plus. i think the big problem for mike
in saudi arabia for a long time. but, you know, it is multidimensional. it s stunning, though, changing that law so women would be allowed to drive. they re really going through a huge branding revival. they just had this huge conference there. they invited us all out. the business networks went. they did all these interviews to try to paint this new picture. the new saudi arabia. but that s a guy business leaders have known for years. a huge investor in companies like twitter. somebody who wouldn t guess would suddenly get arrested. but you re also hearing that prince salman is moving towards really a more confrontational foreign policy approach. at least in the middle east. and what exactly does that mean? to us saudi arabia versus iran, why do we care? yeah, well, exactly. you can divide it pretty clearly, really, between two points. one is the domestic policy within saudi arabia and whether you re seeing a reform there and