is worse today for the republican party than it was in 2013. do you think the president is making a mistake by not following your advice on this? well, i don t know about that. i think he is following advice. i think if you look at what s happening in the economy, you look at the tax cuts, you look at unemployment, i think those things matter a lot. i actually think he is doing better. i think he did better with black voters and hispanic voters in the election. i think we can do more. i don t think anything in the autopsy is wrong. i think the president s position that he s taking on the dreamers and daca is very bold. i think he s boxed the democrats in on that issue. i think it s going to be very difficult for them to walk away from. he s giving more than i probably would have given in the same in the same advice to him, but i also think it s clever of him to offer far more on daca than what most republicans would have offered because i think it boxes everyone else in. so i think
is he trying to box in the president-elect? of course he is. what s he trying to do? of course. the 18 months of hacking, why didn t he do something about it ten months ago? it never would have happened. look, the russians have walked all over the obama administration for eight years. it s really been a pathetic performance. what the last burst of activity has to say, it s hard to do. i think it will fail boxing the president in. so rudy giuliani said if this were the case why didn t they do it months ago, and bolton said if it boxes them in it will fail. shouldn t this exist? sure, if you have an extent shall threat that s messing around with the elections you think you d take preemptive action on this. i think this gives donald trump the ability to maneuver as he wants to actually. so it does him favor in effect?
inefblgtive way to pursue any type of negotiating tact wick a foreign government. it boxes them in way too much. usually the president is used to make policy when it is done and they will say it outloud on social media and through twitter when policy has been decided. not at the beginning. so i think there is a lot of concern in the bureaucracy in the foreign service establishment over whether the president actually has a strategy. whether he knows what he s talk about. he hasn t been getting his briefings. there is a lot of concern. despite the fact there may be concern within the u.s. how leaders from japan, prime minister abe has gone out of his way to meet with donald trump after the election. clearly trying to curry some favor with the man who will be president. well that makes a lot of sense to me. diplomacy is all about
make that labeling. this is just not something they are going to budge on. i agree with you, greta, in the spirit of donald trump, i was phenomenal at logic in college, i don t understand every leap of the logic here. it s increasingly confounding to people because it boxes the democrats in on this to call it something and this part of debate is over. it s an easy talking point. today we heard that is secretary of state hillary clinton had had lunch with the president at the white house any. that s right. i wish i had been a fly ton that wall. i think i would have loved to hear what they were talking about. i have to imagine that this came up. because, you know you are going it see hillary clinton trying to indicate some distance between herself and president obama. prime minister netanyahu she said first day she is president she will call the prime minister of israel and invite him over. that s a frosty relationship that president obama has. first day. calculated response. i w
operations on the ground. the coalition led by the u.s. is. so what are they up to? they really don t know. but clearly there is an effort to try to accentuate the positive. take a listen to secretary kerry. a lot of talk this week about president putin s actions in syria creating new realities on the ground. and some have said that it s kind of boxed the u.s. into a corner a little bit. is that true? i couldn t disagree more. i don t see it boxes us in the least. in fact i think it opens up more options. but i think it makes life very complicated for putin himself, for president putin. because if he he s going side with assad and with iran and hezbollah, he s going to have a very serious problem with the sunni countries in the region. and that means that he could even become a target for those sunni jihadis. so this is very complicated for him. he needs to work something out.