the trump administration will do is make sure, this is not a humanitarian gesture, the north korean regime is probably the most repressive regime in the world and has a terrible record on this. the big problem with north korea, human rights problems, the nuclear missile program and this is not going to help us move in the direction of securing diplomatic channels. we dealt with this nation and this dictator as if they are rational people. kim jung un is a psychopath. why do we bargain with them and do you think the new administration will deal with them the way a lot of americans think they should? reporter: interesting the trump administration secured his
still around. i think that will be the test. when he s gone, what the cuban people decide on going forward. there is an argument for going this route. putting economic freedom ahead of political freedom. we ve seen it in other parts of the world, southeast asia south asia east asia i should say welcome to china. in china, we still have human rights problems. i m talking about places like south korea and japan where we sent economic freedom will lead to political freedom. it s worked. it hasn t worked in cuba partly because we are on our own with his embargo. cuba is still trading with the rest of the world. they are just not trading with the u.s. that s part of the reasons why the policy is not been effective. chris: really quickly? he based this on something really quite clever, which is so much of the economy is owned by the cuban military, the intelligent, the security forces. basically, he forbade financial transactions with those particular entities, which
for american citizens to sue saudi arabia for involvement in 9/11. there is a lot of contention in this country about what saudi arabia might have been responsible for on that horrific day. how does the president address that? i think it s not something he needs to talk about publicly. he s determined at this point to build this coalition, to inspire this coalition of arab allies and possibly other allies to get involved in fighting isis and other extremist organizations. he s not going to aggravate on purpose. he s going to move forward and do this. again, it s long overdue and he will be cleaning up a lot of the mess from the previous administrations. they have human rights problems and other things americans ought to deal about.
for american citizens to sue saudi arabia for involvement in 9/11. there is a lot of contention in this country about what saudi arabia might have been responsible for on that horrific day. how does the president address that? i think it s not something he needs to talk about publicly. he s determined at this point to build this coalition, to inspire this coalition of arab allies and possibly other allies to get involved in fighting isis and other extremist organizations. he s not going to aggravate on purpose. he s going to move forward and do this. again, it s long overdue and he will be cleaning up a lot of the mess from the previous administrations. they have human rights problems and other things americans ought to deal about.
the trump administration has spoken very mildly and i think it is an affront to our values. it is also against our interests. there are europeans, like the leading candidate for president in france, who was just in moscow, she smoked a peace pipe with putin, she spoke glowingly of him. this is russia extending its influence in a way that will be very much and asked her mental to us and to the world. shannon: yet, he maintains more than 80% approval rating in russia. there really is a difference in how russia handles things. it is important but do speak out against brutal authoritarian regimes and the state department did condemn what happened in russia. you have other u.s. leaders who issued a strongly worded statement. at the same time come only comes to foreign policy, you should be laser focused on the national interest. we work with brutal regimes all the time, china, saudi arabia, places with horrible human rights problems. russia is no different. in terms of what our relation