ensure that the u.s./u.k. special relationship continues to be extremely strong in the coming years. certainly this will be a very interesting debate that will take place in the u.k. in the coming months but my sense is that barack obama probably won t be going over to the royal wedding. jon: nile gardner from the heritage foundation. good to have you on. my pleasure, thank you very much. leah: 2017 was quite a year, huh? filled with scandals in hollywood and washington, d.c. with a number of celebrities and politicians hit with sexual harassment allegations. ainsley ehrhardt takes a look back. an epic blunder. moments later i m sorry, there is a mistake. moonlight, you guys won best picture. the mix-up was corrected in
eric: they had flooding in august from thunderstorms. i hope those pumping stations are all up and running and working. casey, thank you. we will check in with you later. jillian? jillian: president trump expected to announce soon that he won t recertify the iranian nuclear deal. but that may not mean the u.s. is pulling out of it all together. the white house press secretary sarah sanders indicated this is all part of a larger strategy. the president isn t looking at one piece of this. he s looking at all of the bad behavior of iran, not just the nuclear deal as bad behavior but the ballistic missile testing, destabilizing of the region. number one state sponsor of terrorism, cyber attacks, illicit nuclear program. he want to look for a broad strategy that addresses all of those problems, not just one offing those. that is what his team is focused on and that is what he will be rolling out to address that as a whole in the coming days. jillian: nile gardner joins me now, he is dir
right now we ve got some pretty nervous allies in the region. elizabeth: gordon, we appreciate you coming on and sorting this all out. like we said, there s a lot of moving parts. thank you very much. thank you, elizabeth. re well, zoom out a little bit here. as gordon just talked about, the linchpin of the trump policy towards north korea is china. and president trump now calls the chinese president, quote, a terrific person. a big change from the campaign. at the same time saying, quote, we re not getting along with russia at all. again, very different rhetoric than in the campaign. nile gardner, directer of the heritage foundation s margaret thatcher center for freedom, nice to see you, as always, nile. all right, ap article this morning, the headline, world power whiplash. fair critique? well, it s talking about the different dynamics between the united states and russia and china. i think what we have seen over the past few days is, certainly, a far tougher signal being sent b
that populist line is playing a role in those elections. politicses there will no doubt be looking to holland and takes lessons from it. back to you. thanks, greg. let s bring in margaret thatcher. nile gardner is with us now. nile, i hope you heard there, exit polls in the netherlands suggest that wilders will come in second. he was supposed to win. he s likely to come in second and a distant second at that. does that mean that the populist movement in europe, very important to us here, is running out of steam? certainly i think a disappointing result for geert wilders and the freedom party and a good day for the center right. but however having said that, i think you still see a sort of populist trend sweeping through europe. you did see the wilders vote
motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many americansen american soil as those who are promoted by jihadiists. however, the president did admit that because of social media isis has evolved and may even inspire more attacks. joining us now from washington, david, a former obama state department official and nile gardner. director of the margaret thatcher center for freedom at the heritage foundation. david, i m going to start with you. every time i hear president obama down playing the threat of domestic terror of isis, i shake my head going why? why would you do this? you are inspiring the more angst. well, i just got back from iraq on saturday. here s the situation. iraq-isis has been degraded a little bit in iraq. they have lost territory and air strikes are working to a certain is extent however, they remain very strong in