more negotiating power in these transactions around the world, i think remains to be seen, but he is true to his word so far. sara, jennifer, careen, stick around, we ll be talking in a bit. up next, what s next for north carolina s bathroom bill? we ll be talking with the mayor, next. philly yes! if you want to make some money, you could get a paper route. i d be happy to drive you in my new buick what s a paper route? oh no, did lucky get out again? stay down boy don t worry, i ll take the new buick and go look for him. lucky! introducing the reimagined 310 horsepower buick lacrosse. you ll find any reason to get behind the wheel. our progressive direct rate. great deals for reals! .and our competitors rates side-by-side, so you know you re getting a great deal. saving the moolah. [ chuckles ] as you can see, sometimes progressive isn t the lowest.
he s simply saying we need to modernize, which frankly republicans and democrats agree, and yet these are things that can cause shifts in other country s policies, and i think there s a learning curve, and ultimately, i think donald trump will rein his twitter in. eventually ehe ll be forced to. jennifer, too, how do you report something like this? you report it straight and say, this is what he said, and take whatever analysis you want to give it? there are inherent challenges for reporters, for people in the foreign policy realm, for folks who run other countries. i mean, this lack of clarity that andrea mitchell was talking about does raise a lot of questions. well, sara is exactly right. this did affect the world, and the trump team knew that. they actually let us know at about 8:00 this morning to expect some, quote, unquote, big news on the u.n. resolution. so they knew this was going to be a big deal as soon as it hit.
none of you are surprised that donald trump is tweeting some of the things he s tweeting. there s nothing in the twitter world that could surprise us, and certainly, sara, twitter didn t exist when you were working for a president. but what, if any, concerns do you have as you observe what s going on, as somebody who has been on the inside of this? well, i think, you know, donald trump is used to be able to use his twitter account as he was in the campaign where there are few ramifications to a tweet. now as he s the president-elect, soon to be president, the whole world is paying attention to everything he says. when he goes out and makes a statement about nuclear weapons as he just did, the world will react to that. and i think there s going to be a learning curve by the trump administration that a casual comment by him, which may be he means it casually. the rest of the world doesn t take it casually.
deterrence. he didn t answer questions to what he fully meant. putin says this all the time, but for donald trump to put it out there was surprising, and it does seem to be a casual approach. some people are suggesting that it s because he met with nuclear and defense contractors yesterday, including lockheed martin that are trying to justify the f-35 fighter jet because it could carry a nuclear armed cruise missile system. we don t know. that would be interesting to see. the heritage foundation which has influenced some of the foreign policy debate has written about expanding nuclear weapons. so there is a lot of stuff out there. whom he s listening to and whether or not it s part of the confusion of some of the things he s said about arming south korea and arming japan with nuclear weapons around the campaign remains to be seen. thank you both. let me bring in sara fagan, a former aide to george w. bush. kareem john pierre.
you know my plans. you are 100% correct. what s happening is disgrace ful. sara, where do you see this going? we ll have to wait and see. he has backtracked on this previously. certainly that statement implied that he may go forward with that policy. one of the things that we know from donald trump, which he said directly in his very first foreign policy speech, was that the united states was too predictable. what we ve seen from him, whether it s taking the call from the south korean leader to these tweets today to perhaps this ban on muslims which he s talked about during the campaign, is that he is reacting to his own comments which is that the united states is too predictable, and he has been very unpredictable as it relates to foreign policy. whether that puts people off, throws them off their game, makes the united states have