but nonetheless, these situations take a lot longer to change than people expect. do you think this is a situation where mbs, because he has this power now, is going to be able to crush his critics and solidify his claim to the throne? well, i think that he s already done that. i believe that he has solidified his claim to the throne, and he has effectively eliminated any serious opposition to the throne or to his taking the throne. uh-huh. so go ahead. go ahead. i was going to say in terms of the question of oil prices, all relationships foreign policy relationships are multifaceted. and the united states relationship with saudi arabia is complicated. it s not simply oil and security, although those are very important. there are other elements, for example, counterterrorism where saudi arabia has on numerous occasions cooperated with us and
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in nine months in north korea. there have been no nuclear tests and we got back our hostages. who knows how it will turn out in the end but why isn t the fake news talking about these wonderful facts because it is fake news. that to me sounds like an election issue, marie. if you keep north korea calm in the following sense that there are no more tests you can probably look back at singapore and call that a success. it will only be a success if there s a long-term deal for north korea to get rid of its nuclear weapons, which was the point of the summit. so the jury is still out on that. but i think what you are seeing is donald trump is fundamentally realigning american foreign policy away from values-based, interest-based alliances, away from multilateralism, towards really transactional foreign policy relationships, right? he got away from the transpacific partnership trade deal which i would argue lets china actually grow stronger in asia economically. he walked away from the pari
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remain repaired to defend ourselves and our allies. is it likely that the u.s. is headed to a military confrontation with kim jong-un. i ve been in conversations in terms of what we re going to do with north korea, it s all scenarios are on the table so it really is up to north korea. based on what north korea does, we have a plan for every one of those scenarios. i think that what we have tried to say to north korea is we re not looking to pick a fight, but don t give us a reason to have one. it s now up to north korea. what i will tell you is we have seen unprecedented great partnership with china in the fact that they have really put the pressure on north korea. we re encouraging them to continue the pressure on north korea because that is one country that can get them to move. that goes back to president trump s foreign policy relationships that he s developing, the new relationship he has with china is pretty amazing. the idea that we were for example the syrian resolution that
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not looking to pick a fight, but don t give us a reason to have one. it s now up to north korea. what i will tell you is we have seen unprecedented great partnership with china in the fact that they have really put the pressure on north korea. we re encouraging them to continue the pressure on north korea because that is one country that can get them to move. that goes back to president trump s foreign policy relationships that he s developing, the new relationship he has with china is pretty amazing. the idea that we were for example the syrian resolution that we had a couple of weeks ago, the idea we could pull china off russia when they had been with them several times before really is a testament to how these foreign relations are working out. speaking of foreign relati relations, the white house is trying to decide whether the u.s. should pull out of the iranian nuclear deal. what kind of push back are you getting from u.s. allies with whom the obama administration
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