election meddling in any of those presidents. the last time we heard from obama he said it couldn t happen. the narrative is being lost. the president doesn t need to target the democrats. they have no power, no message. he needs to stick to his guns on his foreign policy doctrine. results are what matter. he s getting results and hopefully we can continue to have that dialogue. what happened in north korea? we brought home the hostages. i applauded that he met with the north korean leader. there s no evidence they have backed off their nuclear ambition at all. satellite images show that they re continuing to use the nuclear site. you re rooting for the president? i am. i supported it s the right thing to do. absolutely. it was the right thing to call it a success now? there wasn t any material
how do you read this situation? is it better under trump or better under barack obama? i m not going to defend the democrats, but they re not the only target here. trump s foreign policy doctrine is a direct to the neocons. they re undercutting president. the irony there, he s the best friend to israel. russia is not they have one military base outside of russia. we have mutual interests with russia. the president is trying to get the best deals. what are we going to do to denuclearize north korea? he s working with israel or endorsing the israel russia plan in syria. so there s a lot of mutual interests. when we hold 90% of the nuclear power combined with russia, we have to have a dialogue and we need to understand how to make sure that we can make the world a democracy and russia is a lot like us in many different ways. so i don t think it s just the democrats that we should target here. trump, when he ran, he had a
we re not going to sell them american semi conduc semiconduc. i don t feel about that. i don t work for the chinese government. i understand, but you look at it the way you look at it, which i completely understand, the way we ve done this for a long time. the president is linking a lot of things that many people are not comfortable with having linked. right. this is definitely the way that the trump foreign policy doctrine, if you will, is emerging. he s saying, look, i want them to help us with north korea. i want to lower the trade deficit with the chinese. i want to figure out a way to do it. they said to the administration, in some form or another, look, give us slack on zte, and then we re going to buy a lot more american goods and help you with the north korea situation. yeah. you said something i disagree with. this is not the way we ve always done it. the way we ve always done it the way they re going now. that is the chinese go to a bunch of american companies, a semi
european partners, france, germany, the u.k., to impose tough sanctions on iran for the things they are doing in syria. martha: don t you think that s what s going to happen n no? the president has a very interesting foreign policy doctrine i think that is emerging. when you look at all of the different areas he s working in. he basically says let s join all of these ideas together. let s join trade, let s join our trade agreement. let s look at all of these issues across the board and let s hold iran accountable for its behavior. let s not strike a deal with iran that doesn t force any behavior change from this country that is the number one state sponsor of terror. if it s highly likely that at this point we will start to see a negotiation that gets closer to exactly what you want. i hope that is the case. and if it is successful that would be a good outcome. but given that we ve got right in front of us the challenge of a nuclear capable north korea that has developed ballistic
with the world s greater powers. i think the distinction is trump is voluntarily giving up things around which there was consensus as opposed to a war that, as it went on, caused our allies both the iraq and afghanistan starts with a pretty broad coalition. this seems to be the willful breaking up with our closest allies. this is what i m having trouble grappling with. with your boss george w. bush, there was a foreign policy doctrine. with trump, there doesn t seem to be an actual doctrine beyond if obama was for it, i am therefore against it. that s why you have things like a sort of ambitious pursuit of