tillerson saying, trump s decision was not a surprise. he s on a tour of africa, has he become irrelevant? is he even clued in to what s happening? even beyond his own position in the administration, and in public life now, it s an illustration of in any previous administration, just the ranks of experts, and people to try out all the different approaches. it will draw on the history of how things went, when bill clinton was trying to deal with north korea, and how things went for either of the president s bush. the fact that the secretary of state was not aware of this, and that there is no ambassadors to south korea at all. and the main experts in the state department dealing with north korea have not been resigned or dealing with it, it s a sign of the most difficult foreign policy problem there is right now, of having
against all of the past knowledge, all the past best practices? right. north korea is no one incredibly difficult foreign policy problem. no political party or administration really has a monopoly on good or bad ideas. when she said that north korea is a agreeing to things it s never agreed to, they haven t agreed to anything it. they haven t publicly confirmed the south korean depiction of it. but everything they reportedly said to the south koreans has been part of agreements in the past or called for under existing u.n. resolutions. you re skeptical of this. yes. let me read a portion of it. kim has observed the leaders of russia, china, turkey, saudi arabia, the philippines play trump like a fiddle. the president s enormous
tax reform victory. infrastructure. he s going to call on congress to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure package. immigration reform. that s the big fight. just last week president trump unveiling his plan that would give dreamers a pathway to citizenship in exchange for funding for his border wall. and of course national security. you can expect a key focus on north korea. the most pressing foreign policy problem the white house is facing. now, this is an unconventional president who is going to be stepping in to what is arguably a time-honored tradition here in washington and for the commander in chief. so, again, stef, the big question will be will he stick to the script? he s going to be breaking tradition on one point. which is that typically presidents hit the road after their state of the union address. not president trump. he s not planning a multistate tour to pitch his policies. instead, he s going to be here holding critical meetings at the white house. we have to talk abou
you and i have talked a lot about this. is the president s strategy to go after them, is it working? i ve made a point saying the president sometimes goes too far and he says things on twitter that hurt him. i don t think this was one of those cases. i think the president put yourself in his shoes. if you know you did not collude but you are under an fbi investigation, of course you will want to speak out, you will lash out. even if you are the president of the united states. there is a policy objective here. the president should be free, whether you like it or not, to pursue foreign policies. the fbi has effectively tied donald trump s hands when it comes to how to deal with russian until this probe is complete. that s a foreign policy problem the united states has. the fbi needs to finish its work, the mueller report needs to get completed. i still have faith in bob mueller the individual, although i ve lost a lot of faith in his staff. i do believe bob mueller is a man of integr
i do not think so at this point. i think there s more options to be done. it s a winding staircase. is probably the most precarious foreign policy problem for the united states. the whole government and leadership team, it s a problem. i think there is more leverage to be achieved with china. the transition should be happening, and in the short ter term, the olympic opportunity, the big for the north and south this communication to ease tensions slightly, but the president is setting the right tone, we will not accept the things they are doing, we need to relent. ed: what are the other options? economic pressure in the region. china needs to tell him they cannot do those things. show i think kim jong un, if he does not have a bad haircut, it is mutually assured obstruction, he will not do anything, but the economic