23rd, the state department took further action. we asked two officials who were accredited at the embassy of cuba in the united states to depart the united states. those two individuals have departed the united states. meanwhile, the cuban government denying all responsibility. the foreign ministry put out this statement that they also aired on cuban state television, cuba has never permitted nor will permit that cuban territory be used for any action against accredited diplomatic officials or their families with no exception. and nbc confirmed, craig, there are two independent investigations happening at the moment. the u.s. government s investigation and the cuban government is also investigating. and if you put this sort of in a global scope with the escalating tensions in north korea, it s a complicated foreign policy dynamic for president trump right now. and is there a possibility that there was some sort of third party involved and that maybe the cubans didn t know about thi
idea of miller taking that role. i wonder if the opinions will be trumped by general kelly and how much steve bannon s opinions will play a role in filling the position? i think the issue will be more severe in the issues that might exist with stephen miller. i think it s probably the foreign policy dynamic. the next big tension in the white house is between the next foreign policy advisor and bannon. if you have in stephen miller someone who can go toe to toe and articulate the intellectual argument, that s a benefit. julie: we talk about optics a lot. having somebody come out poised, calm, collected, like a sarah
independent. we have massive natural gas shale oil reserves and not only will tapping into those resources create millions of jobs here at home, but it will also create a whole new foreign policy dynamic in the middle east. we won t be dependent on countries that hate our guts. and if we export some of the resources to western europe, they won t be dependant to russia and putin for their needs. i only worry about the infrastructure plan. he s talking about $1 trillion in spending. we have to fix the crumbling roads and bridges. that s obvious. but how are we going to pay for it? how do we plan in pay as we go? and the money can t be spent. we have to get it out of the hands of congressmen and senators, 535 greedy bureaucrats in washington that will misappropriate that money. finally there has to be an outside commission, some place that oversees how this one
government, the rebel opposition and countries supporting either side are willing to come together. the peace talks are now set for january 25th, to be held in geneva. now to russia s role in the fight against isis and the syria peace process. it has changed the whole foreign policy dynamic, and now it puts russia and its president, vladimir putin, once again on the international stage. some of our correspondents sat down to talk about that nation s role over the past year. listen. russia, literally acts with impugn its on a global stage and gets people wagging their fingers at them. i mean, there s nothing that s stopping any of it. either the west, the u.s. actually needs to step it up or say, you know what? we re getting out. we re done. there are a lot of potential
obama s going to, i would guess at some point, talk about. it s something that s enraged a lot of people. not only in europe, but here. kristen, i want to jump in to talk about that. we ve been reporting, of course, secretary of state john kerry speaking out in the strongest terms against that. and it does seem, as you mentioned, this appearance by the president, we re waiting for him to come out any moment, will be the first time he s spoken since these reports have been confirmed. and it does something interesting from condemning the humanitarian aspect of it and anti-semitism aspect of it. the foreign policy dynamic is one where we ve heard many complaints from putin about the treatment of ethnic russians, and people that he identified with russia. some of those claims have been reported as highly exaggerated. yet here it will be the ukrainian side that is now looking out for the opposite