and as senator graham said yesterday, who knows where that guy went. the meeting on thursday where other senators were present was divisive and difficult. it wasn t the first time and sadly probably not the last time our president will use racially insensitive or racist language and that s blown this whole thing up, making it far more difficult for us to keep the government funded, to find a resolution, to disaster funding, to chip, to community health centers and to d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s and daca. that s what we got hired to do here. and the folks who are being let down are the american people. yeah. this hurts our reputation globally and it makes it hard for us to work together on anything. on many levels because one could take away, steve ratner from that hearing yesterday that the department first of all, we have a state department that the jobs aren t even filled. we have posts around the world that aren t being filled. that causes foreign policy problems and dangers. then we ha
place nobody has gone before and certainly no american president has gone before. david, you wrote in an op-ed about america s foreign policy problems. one of the issues is that we believe being a number one superpower is our god-given right, not something that has to be earned. talk us through that, because just this morning when i wake up to read that china is investing over $2 billion in an artificial intelligence plant, center, it makes me concerned that while we re dancing around this twitter nonsense, you ve got other countries truly focused on becoming a superpower. i think it s true. when i saw that story, i actually tweeted out while nero tweets, china is doing this building a.i. programs. a.i. is the superpower of the future. a.i. will transform defense and it will transform economies. and i think with every tweet that donald trump offers out
suggesting there could be some kind of new relationship with a new trump administration, and that did not go well yesterday. there were penal insults being thrown between washington and pyongyang. china also saying that they are looking at this very positively thinking it s a good thing the two sides will be talking. john, alisyn, back to you. thank you for that reporting. let s bring in cnn political analysts ron brownstein and karl. it might create a wedge between the u.s. and south korea, and it might help de-escalate kim jong-un. how do you see it? well, look, you know, i think the experience is clear that most foreign policy problems are managed, not solved. they kind of wax and wane in the
the side of the protesters who have taken to the streets. victor? ryan nobles, thank you very much. joining us now, daniel lipman, reporter for politico and ron brownstein, senior political analyst and editor for the atlantic. good morning to you. ron, i ll start with you with the question of why is the white house weighing in on these protests they are seeing in iran? the white house doesn t weigh in on every protest they see, especially in some of these adversarial governments. why this one? first, real quick, victor, note your map at the beginning of the segment where you highlighted north korea, syria, iran, russia. you could add economic challenges with china, you could have that in the barack obama administration. it s a reminder foreign policy problems are rarely solved. they are more often managed. the world is not the caucus of the house of representatives. it s hard for the president to impose their will on them. iran is, you know, certainly an
site selection. the real test here is in the implementation. i think that lies in the president s hands. i think he knows where he wants to go. shannon: i am told you are going to meet with the president tomorrow. do you want to tell us everything you re going to talk about? i think probably the repeal of obamacare. shannon: that doesn t strike me that that s your topic. do you think you will discuss these issues? foreign policy, north korea and now out with a statement saying it s a matter of when a war will start. there are a lot of complicated issues. the president is roughly one year into the administration and like most presidents, he has tried to focus on domestic issues, but these foreign policy problems that he has inherited continued to press him. i look forward to the meeting. shannon: i m sure he will take some of your advice if not all of it. ambassador, great to see you. new developments tonight and the harvey weinstein sexual-harassment scandal. we will go live