significance of yesterday s visit? i think the significance of yesterday s visit is that we as a people have to start paying more attention to the issues of foreign policy, especially with respect to the ongoing combat operations throughout the middle east. we talked about syria, iraq, afghanistan as if they re isolated incidents and they re not. they re all tied together. we need a comprehensive foreign policy and national strategy to deal with the issues of the middle east and how we work with players there and adversaries at the same time. and until we as a people started engaging our elected officials more, we ll never get the product we deserve and need for all those men and women still in uniform. very well put and i d feel better if you were in a foreign policy position, rob. thank you for coming today and thank you, mautt, for coming today and i encourage everyone to check out your book kaboom. the president was back in
reassert the foreign policy position on the world stage that the u.s. has? well, it does, but i don t think it s the foreign policy position that allies in the region want to hear. this was a decision that was not made in consultation with allies. there was no reassurance that it was going to be done in a way that would help allies prepare for what comes after. there s been a lot of concern that not just in syria but also in iraq isis still has remnants that could reconstitute and make it even more dangerous. the situation in iraq is still very unstable with the government there and i think that president trump certainly is delivering on his campaign pledges to withdraw u.s. troops out of war. but in terms of u.s. leadership, america being a reliable ally, i don t think this is the foreign policy position that the allies are looking for right now. still talking about the optics, margaret, president trump fancies himself a
it s one of the world s biggest gatherings and in the coming days pilgrims will take part in a series of rituals including circling islam s most sacred shrine aqaba. let s not look at a story that s put austrian the austrian government under the spotlight of its foreign minister s decision to invite russian president vladimir putin to a wedding photographs had raided been released showing caring with putin at a wedding party over the weekend but now there s a video which has emerged showing the two sharing a dance and that has sparked an outcry critics say behavior undermined the european union stand against moscow over ukraine but vienna says put an attended the wedding as a private guest and there would be no change in austria s foreign policy position. public has been following that story and he now joins me in studio is a pleasure to have you here so pablo how exactly did the timea putin find himself
the policy options to give him something he could digest, he didn t really want to do. a, there s this atmosphere of chaos around these important decisions, which you really didn t see very often in past administrations even if there was internal debate, obviously. and b, it s this exercise in trying to get trump to sugar coat the pill in some way, that he ll swallow it. to manage him back in sort of a main stream foreign policy position from the position he s at which is way out on a limb with basically the entire foreign policy apparatus. bryan, let me bring you in and ask you about this sort of urban legend that people in and out of the white house around donald trump have always held further where, that he would be better than the man we see on twitter, that he would be so big. i m wondering if there s
what we re saying is it s okay for foreign powers to interject in our elections and back a certain candidate because a president took a foreign policy position. i m going to add on to this. it was hillary clinton. you re saying it was okay for an american president. it was hillary clinton, it was hillary clinton who called out vladimir putin for rigging his election in russia. it was hillary clinton who called out vladimir putin for human rights abuses. wait a minute. we re saying then if putin chooses to get involved in our election that s okay? that s crazy. congresswoman. anderson, it was hillary clinton who signed off on 20% of our nation s uranium. i being sold to a russian majority owned company. that s false. that s false. it s not true. might like to peddle fake news, that s not true. let s. that s a real national security issue. to paraphrase kellyanne conway, can we refocus on