commander. and the white house correspondent for the white house. admiral, this is a public dispute i haven t seen in any a decade between the diplomats and the national security advisor on what could be the most important issue right now, apart from iran perhaps. it s hard to imagine a scenario like this, kind of in the past where you have like steve hadley, extremely thoughtful national security advisor disputing his boss in public or tom donlin disputing barack obama. unthinkable. it s very concerning, andrea, both inside the inner agency and i ve been in those debates and confrontation in the situation room. but normally, you resolve it in the situation room and then you walk out together. so inside the inner agency it s bad form. publicly it sends a very bad signal, both to our allies and
not measuring up. and then go in public and say we had a good conversation. that is the way you conduct diplomacy. if he would do that with putin, it wouldn t go over well, and i know he wouldn t do it. tom donlin what s your reaction? i would not have the summit. in terms of the one on one meeting if you were advising this president, you would tell him cancel it? i wouldn t have prepared it in the first place, there was no goals, it wasn t done with the allies. and he s never come to grips with the entire list of active hostility against the united states by the russian fr federation, directed by president putin. what s extraordinary about the indictment here today is it s part of a multi-dimensional, comp men sieve effort to
the president has often touted america first policies, but he s been front and center in negotiations with north korea and with iran. but some past presidents remain critical of president trump s world view. listen to this. the only way for peace was to partnership and engagement. if we are together, nothing is impossible. if we are divided, all will fail. the dangers of isolation loom. the price of greatness is responsibilities. one cannot rise to be in many ways the leading community in the civilized world without being involved in its problems. people of the united states cannot escape world responsibility. let s bring in former national security adviser for president obama, tom donlin who
slightly different trajectory. that s not something the u.s. missile defenses are built to withstand. this one also russia is saying it had up to 15 nuclear warheads on it. that s another thing that u.s. missile defenses just cannot defend against. they can not each individual interceptor, u.s. interceptor that would be used to defend against a missile is takes out one warhead. 15 coming at one time would be a tremendous threat to the u.s. thanks to you, courtney, kristen welker and keir simmons in london. joining me now, former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. rick stengel, former under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. and tom donlin. former national security advisor. how unusual would it be for russia to test this kind of missile without notifying the united states? i don t think we re surprised