spending. i do not, if you re a conservative and you re running omb, you re probably going to have one of the toughest, most frustrating jobs over the next four years. to say the least. anyway, yeah, exactly. still ahead, despite protests and calls for electors to deny him the presidency, donald trump won the electoral college and increased his margin over hillary clinton. we re going to dig into that and get the reactions from the panel and also the new york times and wall street journal. also, following several fast moving developments overseas with the shocking attacks that happened yesterday. vladimir putin said the assassination of moscow s ambassador to turkey plays into the hands of those who want to derail the peace talks in syria. we re going to be bringing in former u.s. ambassador to russia mike mcfaul to join that conversation, and germany s angela merkel summons her top security officials to discuss a response to the deadly attack on a christmas market, and a repor
coming from the russian president and the turkey president? mret me offer my condolences for the innocent victims in germany. as a luis limb i m appalled. the killing of the russian ambassador, is perceived we see the first messages. as a sabotage on the relationship between the two nations. if this goes on, this terrorist attack, this assassination of the ambassador, can act not as a as a to make two countries go against each other. but maybe, even continue the relationship they have and the dialogue they have over syria. one of the problems for the
politics is what leads to this. there have been grave concerns over the last, gosh, i guess ten years now, and this move in an islamic direction, and how about the emergence of the radicals temper it on his part? he would say peaceful islam has nothing to do with the terror of isis, and this might be a connection for donald trump. donald trump spoke forcefully in the campaign against the islamic state, and the islamic state has carried out a number o terrorists attacks in turkey, including just last week against turkish security forces in ankara, and that could be a meeting point that they could
and no longer, and the obama administration has taken the united states out of the leadership, and russia is now the dynamic power and the turks are looking to the russians, not for leadership but for cooperation, and the turks need to protect their border with syria, and they want to protect the turk population and ethnic group in northern syria and they want to prevent the syrian kurds from dominating that region, and putin allows them to do that and there s a understanding between putin and aired juan. obviously our relationship with turkey has gotten considerably worse over the past decade. what would you recommend given everything you have just said to donald trump this morning in reversing some of these trend
it s 37 past the hour, joe. joining us now, state department spokesman, professor burns from harvard kennedy school of government. joe? mr. ambassador, we have been trying to adapt to a changing turkey for the past decade, changing in very troubling ways. i am wondering how do the latest developments, the latest acts of terror over the last six months to a year, and now assad s emerging success and possible victory in syria, how is that going to impact us over the next four years in our relationship with turkey? i think, joe, it s going to make our relationship with turkey more difficult. the turks are accustomed over decades to leaning on the united states and looking to us for leadership and we are normally in most of the middle east countries the out side power,