appearances in florida, but did not need to be seen to be heard. on foreign policy, trump s team released a congratulatory message from russia s president. trump described as a nice letter from vladimir putin. his thoughts are so correct. putin for his part referred to trump as his excellence si and encouraged improved u.s. russia relations. there s bold comments that con dra tra dikt years of u.s. policy. trump tweeted the united states must strengthen and expand its nuclear capability. some experts express concerns that trump is making pronouncements before taking office. it doesn t bode well for dealing with serious issues, whether it s nuclear weapons, syria, what have you. reporter: saturday he played his first round of golf since the election with tiger woods.
promises he is making, and if he is telling israel our policies are going to change, a lot of people will want him to have policies in place as soon as he walks in the door to say this is how i am going to deal with china differently, and this is how i am going to deal with russia and nuclear arms, and he is setting himself up to make big decisions, and people are going to have high expectations for what he could get done. do you think there could be strategy behind trump s twitter diplomacy, and is there a strategy at play here and who stands to gain from things he is doing right now? i think donald trump s strategy is he s as a reporter i know i am constantly wanting to have press conferenc conferences, and answer questions, and he is saying i can go to the millions of supporters i have and explain to them what i am doing. that doesn t bode well for
were concerned he may be wearing a suicide vest. they shook hands, dan. they shook hands. that jumped out to me. absolutely. that s a standard greeting in the world. i wouldn t look into that. the biggest message is a white flag. that s an image that the taliban wanted to get out to the world. you can interpret it many ways. but i watch many of these videos and there are messages being sent. that s a message from the taliban to the world that this american is sur surending under white flag. it doesn t bode well for u.s. strategic policy that we re surrendering under a flag of white truce. you can t read too much into the health of bowe bergdahl until he s examined.
james, you can t survive in that cold, if you are not reached by the rescuers, right? absolutely. it doesn t bode very well. there have been unconfirmed reports from media about some parents, at the scene of the accident, using online based messaging services on their phones to contact students who might still be trapped underneath the hull. but unfortunately none of that has been confirmed yet. and very difficult to go on from there. briefly, anything they re going to be doing in the next several hours here in terms of priorities? prior to the minutes moving in two large cranes to try to raise the wreckage as much as possible. beyond that, they re waiting for the tide so, they can start pumping air into the remaining air pockets. you have to worry about hypotherm hypothermia, and also being stuck in an airtight space under the ocean. certainly. james pearson. thank you for your reporting. stay safe out there.
president obama and house majority leader eric cantor. a happy passover phone call turned into an immigration smackdown. they can t even agree on how that phone call went down. it doesn t bode well for cooperation between the president and republican-led house on immigration or any other issue. let s bring in our strategist victoria difrancesco soto at the lbj school of public policy. alex stewart is former press secretary for rick santorum. good to see both of you. good morning. good morning. let me lay this out chronologically on how this came to be. the president put out a statement putting out the anniversary of the gang of eight bill. unfortunately, republicans in the house of representatives have repeatedly failed to take action seemingly preferring the status quo of a broken immigration system over meaningful reform instead of