. >> aaron david miller. also joining us, allan dershowitz, ron brownstein and cnn international correspondent ivan watson. peter, to you first, although they have never met trump seems to trust vladimir putin very much. would you trust putin to help us in the fight against it's sis? >> i don't think i hear him saying that he trusts putin at all. i hear what he says is that for what the leader of russia is supposed to do for his country, he has respect for what putin has been able to accomplish. but i don't see him at all, number one, saying that he trusts putin, and number two, taking any actions at all at this point in time, in terms of reaching out to russia, and indicating in any way that we're going into this naively, fully trusting putin at all. he just says, at least the clip that i heard said, yep, we

but aaron david miller is absolutely right. you have to have something to back up this kind of rhetoric. and if you don't do that, you risk going into really dangerous waters, waters of unpreparedness, waters of basically being weaker than you need to be when you're facing an adversary like the iranians. >> i have to leave it there. aaron david miller, colonel cedric layton, thanks too bo bof you. >>> we'll be right back. straight talk... ...so you can take and share pictures any time of day. with a network that helps you save the day... bunny! ...for half the cost. bunny wants to go one more time! here we go! alright, i'm coming home! get an iphone7. unlimited plans with 5gb of high-speed data start at just $45 a month... ...on america's largest, most dependable 4glte networks. straight talk wireless. only at walmart. i checked, everything's there... wait a minute... hey... hold on, i can explain. you better have a good answer... switch to geico and you could save a ton of money on your car insurance. why didn't you say so in

aaron david miller vice president for the new initiatives at woodrow wilson center. to see both of you. robin, i'll start with you. these were strong words that ambassador haley talked about. she condemned russia for occupying crimea, called upon them to deescalate. that is so different than anything we've heard president trump say so far. how do you explain the discrepancy? >> i think president trump is clearly trying to show that he's going to be the strong man making decisions, trying to keep the world uncertain. he's trying to change the rules. he wants to have it both ways. he wants to send a strong message to vladimir putin that he wants to do business with him, but that there are limits. one of the truths about becoming president, and i've covered every president dating back to the early 1970s, is they come in shaping they can shape the world in their own image or america's image. at the end they find out it's forced to playing within certain parameters. i think president trump is showing this russian ags gregs in ukraine is forcing his hand to take a stronger

cnn's deployable affairs analyst aaron david miller joins me now from washington.ee you, aaron. >> good to see you, fred. >> on the campaign trail donald trump touted himself as israel's biggest defender. here is a reminder. >> there's nobody more pro-israel than i am. we have to protect israel >> when i become president, the days of treating israel like a second class citizen will end on day one. look, we have to protect israel. israel to me is very, very important. we have to protect israel. >> reporter: so you've seen a lot of transitions between u.s. presidents and israel. how is this one different? >> i think in two respects. first of all i don't think there are any transformations in this relationship, with the exception of clinton's relationship with rabin which was remarkable and historic opportunities for peacemaking during that period. most israeli prime ministers and american presidents end up with a relationship that is both positive and negative, but in this case you're coming off of eight years of a soap opera, frankly, between president obama and pri

distract his entire administration. >> i want to get some analysis from distinguished scholar aaron david miller who served for multiple u.s. secretaries of state, was intimately involved in the peace process. you heard what both of these leaders say, the president of the united states making a policy, two-state solution, fine, one-state solution, fine if that's what they want. but israel now has an emerging relationship with a whole host of other arab countries, presumably referring to jordan or egypt or saudi arabia, united emirates, bahrain, other countries. and this could be part of a regional peace agreement. what do you make of that? >> you know, as a "star trek" fan, wolf, this is nothing short of a vulkin mine field. clearly each leader was going to drastically improve the personal relationship that they allotted one another. particularly the prime minister comment about laying to rest the sense that the president or anyone in his immediate circle was anti-semitic or anti-israel. second, on the iran issue, they both hate the agreement. they didn't talk about details but it's clear they w

and aaron david miller is here in washington, d.c.im, this news conference happened even before the two men had a chance to sit down and have some quiet discussions in the oval office or elsewhere in the white house. it was as if we're watching live negotiations, at least on some points going on. >> that's right. and that is president trump playing the disrupter on the world stage. typically what we'd see is a president welcoming a foreign leader here at the white house. they would go behind closed, they would have lunch, their officials would meet with each other and they would try to broker some kind of joint statement that would be put out by both the press offices and then you would have a news conference where both of these leaders would come out and explain perhaps what they would talk about, talk about the disagreements they had. that didn't happen today. we saw the prime minister show up here at the white house and then within just a few minutes, they both came into the east room and then started taking questions and making st

commander general wesley clark, now a senior fellow at ucla, and cnn global affairs analyst aaron david miller now with the woodrow wilson international center for scholars in washington. thank goodness i have a short title. ron brownstein, first to you. >> we'll save some time. >> because we need it. iran sanctions. what do you make of this move, you heard lee zeldin. >> tim kaine was a vice presidential nominee. >> lindsey graham told me yesterday he wants to see more sanctions. >> i don't think anybody has an illusion that this is fundamentally going to change iranian behavior, but it is something as a first step. i don't think this is the last step we'll see, it certainly does not fill out the iran being put on notice. where that goes is a very different question. >> a very different question. general, with your background, what is the impact of these new sanctions? and take that in combination with the strong words, the tough talk that we've heard from this white house in the past couple of days, that they were put on notice, from the president. >> i think the impact of the sanctions is l

let's discuss with with aaron david miller.s helped numerous secretaries of state formula u.s. policy on arab negotiations. and the international center and you worked with both sides of the aisle with left and right stripe so the premise is this my friend. what we have done to this point has yielded no peace. why not throw it all out and say we'll go with whatever works. >> it will lead you to that conclusion chris. it's a prime directive. to disrupt without thinking through carefully. and kaushlly the implications of what it is they're doing and yeah the two state solution is in deep trouble. the problem is to unmoor it from american policy now without an alternative i think is neither wise nor warranted. again in another universe you have an administration that would have a policy review. they do consultations and they do their due diligence and then explore their options so in this case it's very similar to other things. when china, nato and sometimes they end up, this administration ends up circling back to embrace the ver

. >> aaron david miller, robin wright, thank you. great to talk to both of you. >> thanks. >> we're following a lot of news this morning. let's get right to it. >> pruz warning israel about new settlements. >> the dire situation in eastern ukraine demands strong condemnation of russian actions. >> iran continues to be a rogue nation. >> we are not going to sit by and take -- >> when you hear about the tough phone calls i'm having, don't worry about it. >> this is an unnecessary and frankly harmful. >> we are learning more about the deadly raid in yemen that claimed the life of a navy s.e.a.l. >> the operation was authorized properly. these things happen in war. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> welcome to "new day." it's friday, february 3rd. we begin with trump administration's foreign policy. the white house hitting russia for its military moves in ukraine for the first time and warning israel about new developments and settlements in the west bank. all long-established approaches actually used by the ob

david miller. i think i heard you earlier on tv talking vul ccan mine field. >> and correspondent based in jerusalem. aaron you laugh but these are serious things these two were discussing when president said holding off on settlements on the west bank, that's not what he wanted to hear. >> i'm smiling and laughing because i always like our interviews. i found that exchange to be playful rather than provocative. quote hold off a little unquote on settlements? expansio expansions two weeks ago, at which time was very little. i think the seamless vul kkin me field is right. both sides had a fundamental break from the obama years, there's really nothing to fight oth over right now and as for the one-state, two-state thing it's not like ordering off a chinese menu, it has to be anchored in policy. and mr. trump is right, we are not going to impose anything that the parties don't like. i'm not sure the president understood the implications of basically saying they could have a one-state solution, which is a highly provocative road to nowhere concept that i think most israelis would reject. and many palestinians