have. to train their forces and the corruption. that s a state department. when you don t have an assistant secretary, you don t have a team. that s going to suffer. that s not good. ambassador richardson, thank you very much for sharing your perspective on this program. we appreciate it. thank catherine and betsy, as well. also give a quick programming note because at noon eastern with andrea mitchell reports, she s talking to the former secretary of defense leon panetta for the new plan for afghanistan. this very topic happening on msnbc in about an hour and 15 minutes. the vice president defending the president s response to charlottesville but comes after the speaker of the house says the president messed up. what is up with the mixed messaging on this? we re talking about the potential divide in gop leadership after the break. hundreds of dollars on my car insurance. huh. i should take a closer look at geico. (dog panting) geico has a 97% customer satisfaction rating! and fast
well as the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas. those meetings will take place separately. the white house had talked about the intention for jared kushner leading the way to try to continue this effort to continue these discussions focused on the peace process going forward. comes as a series of meetings, including rex tillerson, the secretary of state. the chief of staff, john kelly, and other individuals. jared kushner, obviously, there on behalf of the president. right now with the focus as it s described to focus not just on israeli/palestinian peace talks but combatting extremism in that region, as well. hallie? peter alexander, thank you for coming back with that reporting. catherine and betsy are still here on set. your reaction to what we just heard from peter. a lot of shall we say, eye rolling, in the diplomatic community about jared kushner has taken this role as sort of the point person for the white house s relationship with the middle east. there s some questions
and, as we ve seen in places like burma and vietnam and china and other hot spots over the last hundred years, they re normally very messy. they take a long time to end and they generally end politically and not militarily. so, that is what you predicted we will see here? absolutely right. how damaging is that going to be for the president or not? see, this is the thing. it s very important here for adults to stand up and say, maybe this is what the strategy looks like. maybe this is maybe what we have is all we re going to get. maybe the strategy that is just bumped along to three administrations and an ad hoc fashion is the strategy. who knows. but you have to convince the american people of that fact. general, thank you so much for sharing your perspective here on set. catherine and betsy, i ll ask you to hang out. we re talking about the president and his team now putting pakistan on notice. how does that play out? we re talking with a former
sources have said to us, listen. this is just the very beginning of a process. we want to emphasize it s just the start. catherine and betsy, stick around. we re staying overseas when we come back. president trump, as you know, blasting pakistan for not doing more against terror in afghanistan. so, what does that mean? what is the potential fallout? we re talking about this with the former ambassador to the united nations bill richardson, when we come back. hey, is this our turn? honey.our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adventures are still out there. we ll find them in our subaru outback. (avo) love. it s what makes a subaru, a subaru. get 0% apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 subaru outback models. now through august 31.
directed him to get it to me here right away. with us now here on set, retired army major general robert scales and msnbc military analyst at the u.s. army war college. white house reporter for the associated press catherine lucy and politics reporter for daily beast betsy woodruff. i ll blow up your spot a little. you and i were talking during the commercial break. something that hasn t been talked about this morning at all or not much the heavy hand of the man we just saw. mattis. what people in the pentagon are talking about is the mattis touch. this is the ability of a trusted man who the president reveres being able to turn the commander in chief to an all out, to an all-in strategy. he did it with patience. he did it with careful arguments, flying intellectual top cover for him was h.r. mcmattis.