Good morning. It is great to see so many familiar faces this morning. Were looking forward to a timely event as we address the threats posed by north korea and u. S. Policy options. Todays event will be livestream and i encourage guests here in i encourage guests here and online to join in on the conversation on twitter. You can find that at fdd. Also please silence your cell phones this morning. I am pleased to hand over the conversation to todays moderator from the associated press. Thanks a lot. Thank you for being here. It has been a confusing and frightening past several months when it comes to north korea, and confusing for americans, people in guam, south korea, japan. On the one hand, weve seen a level of saber rattling you do not typically see between Nuclear Armed nations, in a sense that we are closer to potential actual military conflict between the u. S. And north korea then perhaps we have been. On the other hand, you hear those in the administration are those in the admi
Shortly we will go live to corpus christi, texas, where Governor Abbott will update the track and damage of tropical. Torm harvey while we wait for that, more from washington journal. Is the director of research at the Foundation Board defense of democracy and the new International Project erector at the institute for policy studies. We are discussing president trumps foreignpolicy. Thank you for joining us. Is hisalk about what foreignpolicy. The uc a development of a trump doctrine so hard . Caller i think it is difficult to make without. Pristinee of the most lines for me about afghanistan was when he talked about going against his instinct, not to get involved. Because of the threat of terrorism, he was going to go ahead anywhere. He rarely talks about changing his mind. The instinct is not to involve in any longterm commitment. He would call it nationbuilding. I think that is a strawman. I think whether its in syria, he wanted to stay up. He was launching cruise missiles. Trump sa
Foreignpolicy. The uc a development of a trump doctrine so hard . Caller i think it is difficult to make without. Pristinee of the most lines for me about afghanistan was when he talked about going against his instinct, not to get involved. Because of the threat of terrorism, he was going to go ahead anywhere. He rarely talks about changing his mind. The instinct is not to involve in any longterm commitment. He would call it nationbuilding. I think that is a strawman. I think whether its in syria, he wanted to stay up. He was launching cruise missiles. Trump said he leans one way and then goes the other. Ont the trump doctrine foreignpolicy after his afghanistan speech during it follows the similar pattern the again in europe and north korea. Putting pressure on allies is the key to success overseas despite complications. We talked about that change in strategy. What, if anything, did we learn from this afghanistan speech about how the president might operate Going Forward . Seen as aa
We cannot negotiate with the evil that is isis. We cannot talk them down rejuvenating to stop their brutality and murder of are all those ago under the same ideology but we can attempt to inoculate ourselves and seek to destroy them eventually. If we dont i guarantee we will call ourselves into a space dozens of complacency to forget about post nine levin frantic ness and just go back to sleep i guarantee we will wake up to a very nasty shock down the road if we dont open to competition. Thank you. [applause] thank you ann. When putting together the panel i decided deal other component we needed was someone to your talk about how this drop of oil prices will be viewed and embraced by the new g. O. P. Congress. Thought the person that could give us the most insight into that and also the way the new g. O. P. Congress looks at Energy Issues generally, that person was mapped. Matt for the u. S. Senate g. O. P. Policy committee basically the policy Steering Committee that thinks through th
At risk . Mornings on 2 starts now. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. These are live pictures from news chopper 2 from oakland where fire crews are responding to a fire at an abandoned home. You can see quite a few firefighters up on the roof and some smoke leaking from just the edge of that roof. Well be physical this developing news and have details there we will be following this develop news and have details for you. Sal will give us more details shortly. I am tori campbell. I am dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Steve, it was 25 when i left the house. I believe it. There is a lot of cold out there. There is 20s all over the place. Warmer afternoon, high temps very, very slowly. This is a very slow warmup. Yes, it is. The days are so short. Its mainly confined to the coast or areas down in santa cruz to monterey. Where is the rain . Its not here any time soon. Its dry for the extended outlook. I have seen 10, 15 days. That can change. But very cold this morning. 20s