gideon rose, editor of foreign affairs. dan senor is co-founder of the think tank the foreign policy initiative. julia yoffey is staff writer at the atlantic. dan, i ll start with you. you were better plugged in to congressional republicans than almost anyone. look at all the things that have happened, and it does feel as though you are beginning to see a republican revolt. that is, senators and congressman, particularly senators, feeling they can defy trump and not pay a price. yeah. i mean you see it in legislation. the sanctions bill that was primarily knfocussed on russia s extraordinary. congress has passed sanction bills but they always give the press going back 40 years they give the president some flexibility because is he in charge of implementing foreign policy and you want to give the president flexibility to waive sanctions or pull back from the sanctions. congressional republicans said, we don t trust you, president trump, to actually make that decision to run yo
julia, you are in fact a russian. sort of. you are an american but of russian origin. what did you make of trump s immigration plan? well, it s kind of more of the same in slightly different packaging. it is the same thing that he s been promising to his base since he started running two years ago. very restrictive in one shape or another immigration policy. they ve been going after green cards and h1b visas since the beginning almost because of people like steve bannon and stephen miller. it is interesting because melania trump was here originally on an h1b visa and in fact worked illegally under a tourist visa at first but that doesn t seem to matter, when you ask trump supporters they don t care because she is the right kind of immigrant, she is a beautiful white woman from europe and we like those. even though she doesn t have a college degree. i don t know how she would have done under this point system. but i think a lot of this stuff is trying to find kind of a
election. so as my colleague at the atlantic wrote today, julia yoffey, this is a response 20 times bigger than barack obama, who expelled 35 russian diplomats from the united states. so it s a big deal and the world is going to pay notice. i think it s getting u.s./russia relations back into a sort of no illusion track, and that s, to be honest, quite healthy. do you see this as healthy, rick, and what do you think the message is that vladimir putin was sending? you know, i don t necessarily think it s quite as big a deal as steve said, in the sense that it s not some kind of gigantic world-changing, climatic thing. well, it is something he can do fairly easily. yes. but 755 out of, what, 1,200, we think. there aren t 755 americans at the moscow embassy. no, a lot are rof them are n russians but they do do the job. but it resets the table a
her daughter had lobbied world leaders to help her mother. when the parliament voted, i was i burst out crying and i was trying to see her. and i just feel so proud to be her daughter, i just feel so proud to be ukrainian. reporter: this woman as an army of loyal supporters, but this isn t a mandela moment. people here have good reasons for disliking politicians. yulia tymoshenko s previous time as a dominant figure was tarnished by infighting, scandal and disappointment. she s now expected to fight for the presidency. she must convince a divided nation she can lead them again. phil black, cnn, kiev. so after that massive change all in one day, what happens now for ukraine? joining me now for more on that, the senior editor of new republic julia yoffey joining me from kiev. good to see you, julia.
pragmatic line. now that the facts are what they are on the ground, that they re ready to work with whoever is going to lead the country. julia, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. all right, it s going to be a very busy week at the u.s. supreme court. starting tomorrow justices will hear everything from gun rights to limiting presidential powers. we ve got a preview next. with at&t s new pricing for families you get 4 lines on at&t s network. including unlimited talk. unlimited text. and 10 gigs of data to share. 10 gigs? 10 gigs. all for $160 dollars a month. you know, i think our family really needed this. it s really gonna bring us closer together. yep. yep. yep. yep. yep. [ family ] yep. [ male announcer ] introducing our best-ever family pricing. for a family of 4, that s 10 gigs of data with unlimited talk and text for 160 dollars a month. only from at&t.