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Hold the world s attention, tries to make sure that folks don t change the channel. that was a very ominous warning. but given his blustering against north korea and kim jong un, i m not sure that this predicting any imminent attack or any imminent military effort by the united states. this is a moment, michael, when i m very concerned that our top diplomat, rex tillerson, has been undermined or sidelined by this president. and that there is significant challenges within the state department in terms of functionality and morale. north korea has got to be our top national security concern at the moment. and there isn t even a nominee to be the assistant secretary of state for east asia, there isn t even a nominee to be the ambassador to south korea. i think it is important that folks in the state department be given the resources and the opportunity and the backing of the president to do their job and this sort of mysterious tv headline-grabbing move by the president doesn t necessarily ....
Reapproachment between cuba and the united states. it takes a line out of a new work of fiction by nelson demille, but there are those forces out there. that have been lying in wait for this kind of a moment. and we don t want our foreign policy dictated by interlopers, that s what i m trying to say. michael, it is an unfortunate alignment of those who have opposed the reapproachment to president trump seems to want to roll back whatever he can do to roll back the accomplishments of the obama administration. i appreciate you focusing on this a story in the midst of the swirl about stories of north korea and syria and iran and other international issues, the situation in cuba has not get gotten a great deal of attention. allowing potentially folks who simply oppose our reestablishing strong relations with cuba to ....
Insert themselves into this discussion. let me continue to work through some of your other responsibilities with regard to foreign relations. the president s declining to certify the iranian nuclear deal throws this hot potato your direction on pennsylvania avenue. what do you expect the senate to do? well i think this is a terrible idea, michael. i have vigorously engaged with folks from the trump administration at the most senior levels to try to persuade them that giving congress this 60-day expedited procedures period in which we could very well snap back sanctions against iran and blow up the entire jcpoa, the so-called nuclear deal with iran, that this is likely to end badly. the decertification that we expect from president trump is coming week based on news reports, will probably be misunderstood by our allies and our adversaries. it may widen the gap between us in our european allies. ....
Ing. is the cold war coming back to life? president trump expelled 15 cuban diplomats escalating his response to the mysterious illness that has stricken american embassy personnel in havana. it s another area in which trump is undoing the legacy of president obama. in this case, detant between united states and cuba. the cuban government condemned the act as hasty, inappropriate and unthinking. motivated by politics. where s this leading? joining me now united states senator chris coons, from great state of delaware, a member of the senate s committee on foreign relations judiciary and ethics. senator, if we don t have proof that the cuban government itself was responsible for this mysterious attack, should we have expelled their diplomats from the united states? that s a great question, michael. this whole incident is somewhat of a mystery. over a number of months 22 diplomats from the united states stationed in havana in cuba were reported mysterious illnesses, ....
Sports commentator bob costas. privilege to have you here. good to see you, michael. analyze that hit. it s a dirty hit even if it wasn t trevathan s intention. even if he got carried away. it s a classic helmet-to-helmet hit and it s kploetly unnecessary, because adams was wrapped up and stopped. it is the very thing that the new nfl rules are designed to, if not eliminate, reduce as much as possible. the officials missed it. he should have been ejected and the league is reviewing it. there s a possible suspension, the irony, although it s a footnote. since they were inside the 10, it was only half the distance to the goal line. that play cost them four yards. is the president right? no. he could not be more wrong. i remember just to make this clear for anybody that needs to have it made clear, my dad took me to the 1962 nfl title game at yankee stadium. ....