center. and matt kerner is deputy director for strategy in the skoe cough center strategy and security and professor at georgetown. richard, the premise of this deal, of this summit, seemed to be everybody else thinks we should do these summits bottom-up, you know, deputies and officials negotiating the minutia and then the formal perhaps ceremonial meeting between the two heads. donald trump said no, we re going to go top-down. what does this tell us, the failure of the summit, what does it say? it says bottom-up doesn t work. top-down also doesn t work for different reasons. it doesn t help when the president has too much confidence in his personal relationships and chemistry. foreign policy at the end of the day is not about is not about chemistry. there wasn t enough preparation. suchl summits should do the last 10% of the deal so left way too much up. actually needed something more fundamental at work here, fareed. which is simply i m not sure there is a deal. if the goal is
relations, former director of policy planning at the state department. robin wright is a contributing writer for the new yorker and fellow at the woodrow wilson center. and matt kerner is deputy director for strategy in the skoe cough center strategy and security and professor at georgetown. richard, the premise of this deal, of this summit, seemed to be everybody else thinks we should do these summits bottom-up, you know, deputies and officials negotiating the minutia and then the formal perhaps ceremonial meeting between the two heads. donald trump said no, we re going to go top-down. what does this tell us, the failure of the summit, what does it say? it says bottom-up doesn t work. top-down also doesn t work for different reasons. it doesn t help when the president has too much confidence in his personal relationships and chemistry. foreign policy at the end of the day is not about is not about chemistry. there wasn t enough preparation. summits should do the last 10% of th
he is lying about el paso, abot the immigration crisis. and the expectation is that we re supposed to negotiation with someone who is manufacturing a crisis based on a lie, i don t understand that. it seems to me that what others are doing they need to do and we need to duplicate all over the country and if his base gets motivated, so be it, we have to understand that we have to fight for the country that we want. allow me to add one other thing, the president did proms that mexico would pay for the wall, next skoe not paying for the wall and it is important to bring that up. the idea that he is keeping his promise to the base but he is not. he promised mexico would pay for it. ultimately though, is it a good idea for the president to go
floor of support that nobody else in the field can really achieve that, you know, that does give him an opening going in to 20. i m not sure that that s realistic given the history of this campaign as the candidates do drop out and there is koe ale involved. it is on and beginning. we will see much more of it in the beginning weeks. thanks so much for waking up and joining us. happy new year. thank you. you too. robert mueller will issue his highly anticipated russia report in the new year. in the last few weeks we learned a lot about what mueller knows from some of the president s closest allies. so what are some of the biggest questions that remain unanswered at this point? joining us now with his list, cnn legal analyst, a former federal prosecutor and assistant attorney general from the new jersey division of criminal justice. you put together this list for us of the five things we all
he has a hand in all of those three pies. if you are president trump and you don t believe there is any collusion or the people around you did that, you are not worried about flynn. they are much more worried about michael cohen could disclose. remember, cohen was the guy who did the stormy daniels, conce karen mcdougal. this runs count toer to what cohen says. but the dismissal of cohen as a koe lev low level guy, you don t give that job of paying off women. that s not how that would work. you don t entrust kind of very personal deal with someone you don t trust and who is a low-level guy. i ll take your word for that.