jae-in, now claiming victory as a projected winner, adding a decade of conservative rule inside the country. he has a nearly 20-point lead over his two rivals who have not conceded the race and the wind comes as a former president awaits a corruption trial. the new president has blasted the hard-line approach as the conservative government. he also opposed the installation of the antiballistic missiles to protect areas like saul from strike. jon: outrage at airports all around the country, long lines and canceled flights, just a part of the new normal in travel. what caused this all out brawl? my passengers are furious and one airline is blaming its pilots. what the white house is considering a new tactic in afghanistan as a drastic departure from current policy there. details on that next.
to angela merkel who didn t seem that she took kindly to that joke? it s certainly a strange way to approach diplomacy and he s certainly not making any friends even among his allies overseas, so we ll have to wait and see what the ultimate effects of those things are. but he s always come in with a very hard line on diplomacy. he just came out with his budget where he cuts the state department. it s just something that he s not terribly interested in. he would rather take the hard line approach, he would rather take the military approach, huge military spending, pentagon spending, border security spending but cut diplomacy and the state department. it s just not something he prior tieses, he wants to take the hard line on everything and we re just seeing that over and over again. you re not going to change this guy just because he s in the white house. he s still donald trump and he s still a very abrasive guy and a very aggressive guy and very egotistical guy and doesn t think he s
that s welcome news both in south korea and japan. it is very important as you rightly point out, there is a lot of uncertainty on the ground because of the impeachment, the front-runner at the moment possibly to take over from the embattled president, it is a progressive politician who is already suggested his approach to north korea might involve negotiations in a more moderate approach if you would like, which might conflict quite by the more hard-line approach of president trump. china in this context is as it always has been, in a sense the most critical player. because china has the closest relationship. it is in a position to enforce sanctions if it wants to. so far, however, chinese have always been willing, if you like, very final stage, to roll back some of the sanctions. many people in washington are
let s talk about chuck schumer. chuck schumer is one of these guys that can do two things at once. get the boxing gloves on and pound you, and then he can walk outside afterwards and sit there and talk to you and figure out how to do a deal. yesterday, he got the boxing gloves on. setting a new tone. senate majority leader one day into the job chuck schumer looking to usher a new democratic. the transition was official yesterday during the swearing in of the new congress. speaking with politico, more than a dozen senators and top aides say schumer is working hard to bring the various factions of the democratic party together. the most obvious change they say is the leadership team the senator has created and promised to consult before making key decisions. a big shift from reid s taking a hard line approach and senator schumer has previously said he is ready to work with president-elect trump in some s
his two predecessors obama and bush have been very careful in dealing with the chinese. yes this can work but he has to think through all the moves beforehand. lets trump also talking about china on social media. china has been taking out massive amounts of mey and alth from the u.s. and unsided trade won t help with north korea. nice, exclamation point. not sure what that means. but the state run newspaper later accusing trump of quote pandering to irresponsible attitudes. this incoming administration s approach to china appears to be taking a hard line approach. smart? not smart? smart in that we have to change our china policies. the policies in place haven t been working this century. something needs to change. i m not saying trump will move it in a better direction. at least there is the hope of better relations with china. right now, china also is going in ways which are troubling the united states in many different