perspective given the role of doj and prosecuting donald trump and now given the focus of trump on all these prosecutors, how dangerous is it for field agents at this juncture? how does the fbi handle this sort of thing without sort of in turn making these individuals martyrs for a cause? yeah, alex, the threat environment is the highest right now than i can recall during my 25-year career at the fbi. the personalization of going after specific agents by name, in fact this individual specified that the agents, the two agents that were actually investigating him launched threats about killing them. and, you know, it illustrates the challenge of trying to get out in front of this problem. it s extremely dangerous right now for federal law enforcement. it s going to get worse. they ve got to get it right every single time. the bad guy only has to get it
about how illiberal american democracy would become. that s a serious issue. the other thing, joe, i d actually cut him some slack if, and it is a big if which he never met, he actually could have delivered. it would have been one thing if all those love letters with the leader of north korea resulted in any constraints on north korea s nuclear and missile programs, but they did not. or with china. or with russia. or with saudi arabia. if in any case he showed his personal relationships could actually influence their behavior in a way that was more constructive and more consistent with american interests. the problem with mr. trump s foreign policy is it failed to do that. you had all the personalization without results. the bottom line is it didn t produce. elise, he is offering a bit of a preview of what a second term foreign policy would look like. certainly, the war in ukraine is
who more than saudi arabia on the entire planet? that would certainly be worth exploring, shall we say. can i just say, the degree of personalization or narcissism, it is almost like it is a different school of foreign policy. usually, you have debates between realists and idealists or whatever. this is an entirely different school. whether it was in the leader of north korea, the love letters, president xi of china, the crown prince of saudi arabia, the idea of his relationship delivering these countries to us. on his watch with saudi arabia, the iranians attacked saudi arabia and the united states did nothing, despite his great personal relationship, which is one of the reasons the saudis grew so alienated. saudis were doing what they were doing in yemen despite us telling them not to. now, i m not saying it is going to work, joe, but the united states and saudi arabia are