afghanistan where his national security adviser, general h.r. mcmaster, is traveling soon to plot the future of u.s. military presence. trump now learning to trust the expertise of his generals he once boasted about knowing more than. i know more about isis than the generals do. believe me. cnn s elise labott joins us from washington. hello, elise. is there a concern that trump is ceding too much of his authority to the military, to his generals? it certainly looks like a more mill taristic policy. he s ceding authority to them in the field but the military has a saying that they like to emphasize which is, you cand can delegate authority but you cannot delegate responsibility. he is the commander in chief and does own the decisions, the consequences of the decisions that are made by the military in
unfortunately. and united airlines adding insult to injury after dragging a passenger off an overbooked plane causing some global outrage. no, this is wrong. oh my god. look at what you did to him. oh my god. a story that will not end. we are now learning that the airline did not send dr. david dow s luggage with him. instead it shipped his bags to his practice in kentucky leaving with him with nothing injuries from chicago hospital. everything that could have gone wrong in that moment went wrong. unreal. pete: story that never ends. we will see. we ll keep bringing it to you. american forces just wiped out close to 100 isis terrorists. the media is slamming the president for being in mar-a-lago? it is a place where people who don t have any credentials, necessarily, other than the fact that they are a member of the country
serious about its allies and allies commitment. thank you very much for your insights. appreciate it. still to come new details about who is killed in the u.s. strike against isis that used the so-called mother of all bombs. that s coming up next. almost nothing to holy crow, i m related to george washington. i didn t know that using ancestry would be so easy.
it s no longer obsolete. reporter: abandoning his hardline stance on china. great relationship. reporter: calling president xi jinping a partner to counter north korea s nuclear threats. president xi wants to do the right thing. we had a very good bonding. i think we had a very good chemistry together. i think he wants to help us with north korea. reporter: if a trump foreign policy is emerging, it would be don t have a doctrine. i like to think of myself as a very flexible person. i don t have to have one specific way and if the world changes, i go the same way. i don t change. well i do change. reporter: trump says he trusts his commanders pressing him to flex u.s. military muscle in yemen where the u.s. is stepping up air strikes against isis, in iraq and syria where trump has sent hundreds of additional troops to fight isis since taking office and in
in syria and dropped a massive bomb on isis forces in afghanistan. are these isolated military moves or does it add up to a foreign policy doctrine for president trump? cnn global affairs correspondent elise labott has a look. reporter: tonight, new warnings from china, as tensions rise with north korea, the chinese foreign minister warning that if war breaks out, quote, there will be losses on all sides. russia, iran and syria also issue warnings to the u.s. against new strikes in syria. the threats follow president trump s decision to launch two major military strikes in afghanistan and syria. we have the greatest military in the world, and they ve done a job as usual. we ve given them total authorization. that s what they re doing. frankly, that s why they ve been so successful lately. reporter: the display of