diplomacy is also likely to have an impact in south korea. our paula hancocks is tracking that. she joins me now from seoul. and the new government of south korea has indicated a willingness for diplomacy. so what is the reaction to this kind of misconnect between secretary of state and the u.s. president? well, natalie, there has been no direct response to this there is no direct reaction. we wouldn t really expect one. this is obviously something that the south korean would not really want to intervene in clearly. the government here in south korea is more pro dialogue, more engagement than the previous conservative administration. but up until now president moon jae-in of south korea has been going along with the u.s. more hard line approach of pressure and sanctions. but when it comes to the actual tweets from the u.s. president, the officials here and to be honest, the officials in many countries around the world are quite reticent to comment directly. i did speak to the south k
president appreciated some of scaramucci s tactics on television, maybe appreciated his approach in interviews until all of a sudden he didn t. there is this ongoing debate inside the white house between administration officials about what is the right strategy. stephen miller is an ally of steve bannon. steve bannon taking a hard line approach. he s viewed as someone who is very close and instrumental in keeping trump s base with the president, john kelly, on the other hand, seems to want to put in some more traditional structures into the white house, may not want to elevate stephen miller. this would be one of many deb e debatdebat debates kind of going on inside the white house, about what the right approach is going forward. what the right communications strategy is going forward. but he is an immigration hard-liner as we saw the other day at the white house briefing. he has close relationships with breitbart and the drudge report so, he s a favorite of conservative media.
and ann guerin, national political correspondent for the washington post . franco, what happened today, what in your mind was the lead story and what are the ramifications. it s pretty interesting, i will say that one thing as you pointed out, this is something that has been of interest to a lot of people, but he really didn t cancel the deal, what he did today was fulfill a campaign promise. he mentioned that, he said that repeatedly, during the speech today. let s not forget that during the primaries, candidate trump during that time repeatedly said that he was for engagement with cuba. he just talked about maybe striking a better deal. it wasn t until the general election, that he started taking this kind of hard line approach, and it was then that he talked about reversing the deal, and now he s somewhat fulfilling that obligation that he pointed
let s not forget that during the primaries, candidate trump during that time repeatedly said that he was for engagement with cuba, he just talked about maybe striking a better deal. it wasn t until the general election, that he started taking this kind of hard line approach, and it was then that he talked about reversing the deal, and now he s somewhat fulfilling that obligation that he pointed out he was going to do. you still have a lot of the measures that obama had put in place, even critics like ben rhodes, the architect of this thing is kind of breathing a sigh of relief saying this isn t as bad as we thought it would be. i can hear those combustion engines behind you. how does this affect cubans and those cubans that have been drawn to the burgeoning tourism industry there, and those cubans who are able to pay for and plan a trip to cuba? reporter: we saw trump promise a lot today. but the practical thing about people living down here is that far fewer americans will be comi
cuba, he just talked about maybe striking a better deal. it wasn t until the general election, that he started taking this kind of hard line approach, and it was then that he talked about reversing the deal, and now he s somewhat fulfilling that obligation that he pointed out he was going to do. you still have a lot of the measures that obama had put in place, even critics like ben rhodes, the architect of this thing is kind of breathing a sigh of relief saying this isn t as bad as we thought it would be. i can hear those combustion engines behind you. how does this affabiliect cuban those cubans that have been drawn to the burgeoning tourism industry there, and those cubans