to the incoming administration s foreign policy plans. earlier president-elect trump again rejected allegations of russian interference in the election. i think we ought to get on with our lives. reporter: that may prove politically difficult with republicans and democrats calling for tough steps against russia. he has a senate and a house leadership that have all supported these actions. if he backs down and he does this, it will be perceived it was done for putin and at putin s request. many republican congressional leaders are reacting favorably to the obama administration s sanctions. house speaker paul ryan said bluntly, russia does not share america s interests. it s consistently sought to undermine them, sowing dangerous instability around the world. while today s action by the administration is overdue, it is an appropriate way to end eight years of failed policy with russia. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said the obama administration for eight years attempted
than obama had with netanyahu. this whole frosty relationship began when president obama went to egypt in 2009 and gave that sort of great big foreign policy speech to lay out his plans and bypassed visiting israel. i think and i predict that trump will probably make israel his place where he goes and lays out his foreign policy plans. but it s also exacerbated when john boehner invited netanyahu over and didn t even consult the white house. right. look, a lot of people here on both sides can claim that they were slighted and that they ve been really good to each other. i think ultimately the president s foreign policy toward israel has been something that deserves to be questioned. it s maybe not as bad as people think, not remembering past republican administrations, george h.w. bush for one. there are two things to watch here. a year ago, trump gave a speech to the republican jewish
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of the country at large. it is not substantive and not the whole story, and very complicated situation over there, and i think that if you started to, you know, scratch beneath is surface with trump or carson with their foreign policy plans, you would find out quickly ta they don t have enough knowledge to make the calls, but certainly that no-nonsense, and straight forward is working. it is why they have so much support. and also, this is why the trump likes the rallies, because he can say the bombastic things unchallenged, but in a debate where he is pressed on the substance, he is quiet. and yes, secretary of state john kerry said at the institute of peace say that isis is selling some of the oil to the are regime of bashar al assad, a and so that oil is a important issue. and up next, isis is claiming responsibility for two separate deadly suicide bombings. we will have a live report
above. but then, the other thing that hurts him, quite frankly, is his debate. he looks very bad because he didn t have any substance. there s only so much time where you can say my strategy is smarter than everybody else. i can t tell you my foreign policy plans because i don t want to tip off the enemy. so until he starts getting some sub stansz, he s going to start hurting himself. they wanted to protect the gop front runner. now they re protecting donald trump. howie, the polls all make clear that the republicans believe fiorina won that debate.