i think he was repulsed as a human being by what assad was capable of doing. the children really moved him and all i can say about this president, he has the instincts of ronald reagan in many ways. there we have south carolina senator lindsey graham a member of the armed services committee weighing in on thursday s surprise u.s. air strikes in syria. i want to bring in crystal ball author of reversing the apocalypse and robert trainor, a former bush/cheney adviser. great to see you both. let s begin with senator graham who has been a vocal critic for president trump, as they were campaigning against each other. how do you explain this sudden
of people based on how they appear on television. big questions on that. rudy giuliani remains in the running and mitt romney. as was said, it s fairly ill-defined back to 1987 when he wrote the art of the deal. trump said all deals when you strike them, you need to be unpredictable s what taking a phone call from taiwan is. the problem with unpredictability, diplomacy is built upon a structure of applicability. who he would pick as secretary of state would say a lot about the type of foreign policy he wants to pursue. one of the pieces we re seeing is consistent with what he just did, that he wanted to get rid of these large trade deals. p, t-tip, no, no, no. basically what he s saying here. therefore, bilateral agreements. robert, the president-elect has, if you will, done that. i mean, he s had call it s with leaders of pakistan, kazakhstan, the philippines, raised a lot of eyebrows as well.
politico. start with you, robert. this idea of a new world order. this idea of the way trump has done domestically that he ll bring a flavor of this to international diplomacy. yeah? we don t know. you know, this could either be one big mistake or it could be one suggest consent milestone. we just simply don t know. and the reason we don t know is because we don t really know trump s foreign policy ideologically, for example, because he really hasn t articulated that over the past year and a half. i honestly think it was one big mistake. his stach, perhaps himself did not know the ramifications of taking the taiwanese president s call. the real question, where is the state department? the national security council? i assume particular president-elect there is a bureaucratic foreign policy staff surrounding you. when you take 9 calls, a translator is certified to recognize all of the things translated are in fact true,
go up to the beehive and hit it. go up to the beehive and hit it. watershed moment. cull pulling out all the stops here, robert. shane if he does do that, a lot of folks say, yeah. when you look at the p-5 plus 1, look at other relationships around and those that are multilateral, they have not worked. so why not? i mean, donald trump complained about almost every major multilateral agreement in the world. raised kwis about nato. whether eastern europe people countries were paying their fair share. revisit nafta. pull out of tpp. he s talking about reconfiguring american policy in asia, in the americas. looking at potential dramatic shifts. 9 thing is, no one knows exactly what he s shifting to. he said that on purpose. right? his policy around war and isis. comes to trade and the economy, predictability again is what so much of the world economy is built upon. if you re going to hit that
beehive, you better have enough beekeepers. that s really the question we re watching as he fills out the rest of his administration. robert trainor, shane goldmacher, thank you both for the analogies this afternoon. appreciate it. thank you. heal weekend. you, too. still ahead, much more on that deadly fire in oakland. watching that. nine people dying. u.s. issens more feared dead. we re watching microphones for a potential news briefing with more information. up next, angered louisiana after authorities release the man they say admitted to shooting former nfl player joe mcknight. s make earning bonus cash back so complicated? they limit where you can earn bonus cash back to a few places. .and those places keep changing every few months. the quicksilver card from capital one doesn t do any of that. with quicksilver you earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere.