face five finger legal bills. i want to focus on the president s foreign policy today. it s really confusing. it is clear mnuchin was sent out, carol, to do cleanup, reassure republicans. they don t want turkey to do that. it happened the same day, the united states couldn t use the word condemn with the europeans when it comes to what turkey did. the president sent more troops to saudi arabia. are you confused? no one has a sense of what policy is, whether getting out of endless wars in the middle east? even if you look at the president s twitter feed, it is all over the place, getting out of endless wars, not doing anything like that, we re not leaving, abandoning anybody, kurds have to stand for themselves, we re going to help them out. what reporting shows is behind the scenes there s some effort to get this contained. not just the political problem that he has with congress but
here in iowa really doing a lot of on-the-ground organizing. he expects that those numbers are start to climb up and reflect the enthusiasm we see at his rallies here in iowa and elsewhere. butt generally has also been taking a lot of shots at president trump on foreign policy today, on everything from ukraine in the situation with joe biden to that rally that the president has been holding with the prime minister of india and pete buttigieg also criticizing the president on the saudi arabia situation, those strikes against the aramco facilities. listen to what he said when i asked him whether president trump deserves any credit for the fact that so far he hasn t struck iran. pretty low bar to give the president credit for not starting a war. although that s certainly better than starting a war. matter of fact, he decided to launch a war and changed his mind in the last minute and called off the orders. this isn t a way to run the most
conduct these types of operations to enforce the sovereignty of the united sta s states. thank you very much for your expertise, we ll follow it. breaking news in the jeffrey epstein case. his attorneys have proposed a plan to get him out of jail. a deal worth $77 million. we will talk about the details behind that stunning number. and joe biden lays out his approach to foreign policy today, blasting president trump in the process, how he plans to deal with dictators like vladimir putin and kim jong-un. the body of an american scientist found in a nazi bunker used during world war ii. you re watching cnn, i m brooke baldwin, we ll be right back. award winning interface. award winning design.
looking at, as you described quite well, another run-up to another catastrophic war in the middle east. let me say that there s a bigger picture here, though. most of your viewers will be familiar with hbo s long-running show game of thrones, which is coming to its end right now, one of the most-watched shows in tv history. and at the last episode, the female heroine, is sperned by jon snow, the leader of the male side, if you will, and she says, okay, if it s not love, then it s going to be fear. and then she rides her dragon and burns almost everyone in the movie men, women, children and everyone else. spoiler, dude. that was her foreign policy. that s america s foreign policy today, fear. yeah. it s fear. and you know, trida, let me go to you quickly, because when the united states invaded iraq i have no military experience or background, but i thought it was a disastrous and terrible idea. you can t tell people they are
widespread calls from the koreans, from the americans to push pyongyang to stop this march toward nuclear power. as you said, there will be these meetings at the u.n. where the u.s. and south korea and others will try and push the potentially new sanctions against north korea. but china and russia having none of it. they say there needs to be talk rather than just the talk of sanctions. all right. david mckenzie, thanks for that update. it is all about foreign policy today, north korea taking its threats to dangerous new level just as the world leaders get ready for the g-20 summit in hamburg, germany, and the face-to-face meeting between president trump and vladimir putin. president trump is on his way. cnn s nic robertson is already there in hamburg. nic, president trump is already