i don t know when she s doing this. from an optics perspective it is a terrible look. second, if she has philosophical disagreements, maybe she believes the pharmaceutical arguments at least put it forward. put a plan forward. so far what we are hearing is she doesn t want the raise taxes on amazon or big corporations even though they are not paying taxes. she doesn t want to raise taxes in my district, 40, $50 million. she doesn t want to negotiate medicare. what is her plan for revenue? she says she is for climate change provisions. what does she want? how is she going to raise it in then we can have a conversation. there is nothing there. now, what does this delay, this optic of disunit do on the right? because there is a move there to blow up the bipartisan agreement they have on that side. and my understanding, tell me is yours matches it is, look, they are weak. let s not give them the infrastructure bill. i know some of you phis like it
violence and impose tree lawn. most importantly, they apartheid alliance have evil and afghanistan will be the afghan people that suffer the most. it is horrific to watch. trace: yeah can the very quickly and lastly, china and russia. how does this affect them in the immediate future, sir? china is looking to capitalize on the political messaging component. they are moving closer to best taliban government and kabul or the bailiff and government that the taliban takeover and kabul. they know what this means from the optics perspective, the u.s. long treating this conference has been at work don t make backwater and get these results in the end. the chinese are looking to signal that they will not let this major american defeat pass unnoticed. whether in moscow, beijing, they are looking to capitalize on the scenes that we are seeing in afghanistan.
his state visit to japan. joining me now, retired admiral, former nato supreme allied commander and msnbc national security analyst. i guess the question is begging to be asked. how s that for diplomacy? at least for an optics perspective, you have shinzo abe and japan appear to be catering to the president exactly the way he would want to be catered to. why would they be doing that? they deeply, deeply value this relationship. you have to chuckle at a picture of the president getting in a sumo ring. this could be his career post presidency. you never know. i think more likely kind of a better optic would have been to go to a baseball game. both the japanese and the americans are crazy about baseball. we both have professional leagues. go throw out the first pitch at a baseball game. this just is unusually jarring. hey, bottom line, though, we have a strong relationship with
and it is not exactly clear why if the date and time have been set this remain as mystery that the president is teasing ahead to. he hasn t said when the big reveal will happen, but certainly there has been a lot of speculation about where the meeting could happen. all sides that are involved here have indicated that they are looking very strongly the possibility of having this meeting at the dmz, from the optics perspective, that seems to have appealed from president trump and from the logistics perspective as you point out that would certainly be an easy trip for kim jung-un to make. he has really only traveled outside of north korea once since coming to power as far as we know and that was the trip about a month ago to beijing to sit with president xi jinping. and the other possibility for this summit is the idea that it could happen in singapore. and certainly there are those within the administration who seem to be pushing the president that a neutral option like singapore could b
including from people like john mccain about america s leadership role in the world. i don t know if the shot is going to pull out. you see everybody else around this table including reince priebus, not interesting he s at the table. but what he said, talking about how it is a blessing on behalf of the senior staff to be there and working for the president at a time when there is continued speculation about all of the palace intrigue as you know well. soapy think that this is kind of a very interesting when you look at it from an optics perspective, an interesting moment here from the president. then he s promising that news conference in two weeks related to what he describes as the fight against isis. you might remember, kristin, three weeks ago when they were overseas with the president, the president then also promised a news conference focused on isis. if it happens, many questions we would like him to answer. undoubtedly. a lot of big headlines out of that. thank you for breaki