foreign policy there was a chicago global affairs council poll this august that showed that only fifty one percent of millenniums actually support the u.s. taking a active role in the world that's like it that's in strong contrast to baby boomers you know even trump voters and but i don't even know how much of that has to do with this i mean the army of the military typically targets the poor and working class populations even you know undocumented migrants now and i think this has to do with you know changing conditions that might actually have very little to do with how millennial see the u.s. role in the world. was struck you. and we see cycles of this in fact. right after the the two thousand and seven two thousand and eight financial downturn. the army wasn't having a problem at all so of course desperate people are going to do stupid things like join the army or join the marines and it does seem stupid when you're facing the prospect of two three four even five tours in iraq war in afghanistan a war that doesn't and so there's there's parents involved when you see military recrui

chicago council on foreign affairs, a former u.s. ambassador nato, the co-author of "the empty throne, america's abdication of global leadership. d max boot is a fellow at the council of foreign relations, a cnn global affairs analyst and the author of a new book "the corrosion of conservatism, why i left the right." all right. let me start with you, max. this is a terrific book but i know a lot about it. so this seems to be causing a lot of problems for saudis. do you think they anticipated this? >> i don't know if they anticipated the blow back but i assume the reason they did it is because they thought they could get away with it. jamal khashoggi was somebody who annoyed the saudi royal family because he criticized them and they don't like criticism so they thought they could get away with this. donald trump is somebody who refers to the media as an enemy of the people. he has praise for dictators, he says he loves kim jong-un, he plays rodrigo duterte in the philippines for the way he's handing the drug problem and he's been enamored o the crown prince of saudi arabia. look at their feud with qatar, look at the fact that the

. >> joining me now is president of the chicago council on global affairs.o coauthor of "the empty thrown: america's abdication of global leadership." saudi arabia has repeatedly changed their story but trump keeps downplaying the possibility of the saudi royals's involvement while boasting about our economic ties to the kingdom. doesn't that signal to the saudis that there's no incentive to be more transparent about what happened? >> yeah, i think it does. i think what we're engaged in, both with president trump and the saudi leadership is a damage limitation exercise. there's nothing like the complete or thorough or transparent investigation that secretary of state mike pompeo said was needed when he was in riyadh and heard the saudis say, in fact, they're making up stories to get on with the business as usual and that's, of course, totally unacceptable. >> well, trump is out of step, even with his own intelligence officials on this. and even one of his staunchest foreign policy supporters, senator lindsey graham, said he's not buying the saudis' explanati

. >> the chicago council on global affairs does an annual poll. it is remarkable. internationalism is something americans are embracing. we have seen the highest percentage of americans saying trade is good for creating jobs, for consumers like them, for the american economy. support for nato and south korea and japan are at the highest level we've ever seen. americans want allies and believe that having allies in the u.n. on their side is something that is important for them to achieve their objectives. we're finding americans -- it's like oxygen. you only miss it when you can't breathe anymore. internationalism and american leadership is something that americans now desperately want because they see what it means when it's no longer there. >> ivo daalder, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> tuning now to the bitter fight over brett kavanaugh's appointment to the united states supreme court which is being felt across the pond as well. the right of center "financial times" says this has left the republic in a moment of acute danger pointing out that a justic