she became the ruling monarch there. this is jill biden s first audience with her at the castle and although she s jill from philly, the queen has met 12 presidents of the united states since becoming queen. she s probably got this down but it will be interesting to see joe biden now in the top role at the country of the united states getting involved with the queen this time. it will be interesting to watch on sunday when they go to wind sor. right, because we all remember when trump met with her and had a hard time figuring out where to walk or the moment from the first lady michelle obama touching the green and everybody was like, she touched the queen. exactly, no touching. it s awkward, i think, for americans not noting the right protocols. kate bennett, thank you for that. let s turn to sir peter the former uk ambassador to the u.s., france and turkey. also the author of they call it diplomacy, 40 years of representing britain abroad and also joining us, david sanger,
can an embassy work if they don t really speak for the president? if the president has his own person conducting his own shadow i wouldn t even call it diplomacy, his own shadow agenda in a country, what does that do to the embassy which is actually the foreign service officer actually sworn to follow the constitution and to represent the legitimate interests of the united states? there are two points here. first, occasionally, not often, not normally, a president will have unofficial envoys. but if the policy is sensible and if the process is sensible, whatever that unofficial envoy is doing is in tandem with the official envoy. what we ve had here are two very different things. our ambassador, masha
a commander in chief is supposed to stand up for his troops, whether those troops are military or civilian. and here in fact we seem to have the undercutting of an ambassador who is doing, again, a very strong job. i know that her work, her strong anti-corruption work in ukraine was annoying and even angering senior officials in the previous government, including the former prosecutor general. and so they wanted to kind of get back at her. can an embassy work if they don t really speak for the president? if the president has his own person conducting his own shadow i wouldn t even call it diplomacy, his own shadow agenda in a country, what does that do to the embassy which is actually the foreign service officer actually sworn to follow the constitution and to represent the legitimate interests of the united states? there are two points here.
not behind the attack on the tankers. throwing things back at the u.s. they said they believe the u.s. was behind the attack. he said he believes it s because u.s. sanctions are not working. i want to read you of what ari said. this is a quote. is it diplomacy so start a face-off with a revolutionary nation with acts of economic terrorism? is it diplomacy to renege on one s promises in the nuclear agreement? at the same time they re also now saying that they are scaling back their commitment while staying in the deal. certainly what they announced today is very significant. they say they have already considerably ramped up their production of low enriched uranium. within ten days, they will reach the ceiling limit. and they said after those ten days, they would be more than
and former cia operative will hurd of texas offered a dire warning of the president s increasingly cozy relationship with putin. writing quote, over the course of my career i saw russian intelligence manipulate many people. i never thought i would see the day when an american president would be one of them. despite widespread condemnation late today trump responded to his critics on twitter writing, quote, i got severely criticized by the fake news media for being too nice to president putin. in the old days they would call it diplomacy. if i were loud or vicious they would have criticized me for being too tough. remember when i was criticized for being too tough with chairman kim. michelle, let me start with you. it s interesting to watch coats. we show his reaction for the potential for a putin visit. there was also the statement he put out without white house clearance this week when trump seemed to side against him with