you are first for michael o'hanlon. go ahead. as a cold war era veteran, after watching administration's deal with cold war and then reagan and so forth, when i see the current president conduct himself the way he has, he shoves a prime minister of i believe montenegro physically out-of-the-way at that event. he snuggles up to butchers, like this vile human in charge of the philippines right now. he has never let us to have an inclination that he cares anything about foreign policy in any of these matters, and the only people in his administration that do are the ones he has been lucky enough to have worked for him. to the degree that they know what they are doing, that is heat, but the damage that has done, in my opinion, to just stunning is to me this guest would say surprisingly, we are doing well. guest: i am glad you made this points. i wanted to sort of get the conversation going in a way that did not sound overly partisan or be a broken record. a lot of people would make criticisms of president trump. i thought you were el

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michael o'hanlon is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the brookings institution. he's also director of research for the foreign policy program at brookings and an adjunct professor at columbia, princeton, and syracuse universities and the university of denver. he's a member of the international institute for strategic studies and was a member of the external advisory board to the central intelligence agency from 2011 to 2012. mike is the author of many books including the future of land warfare pushed published in 2013. healing the wounded giant maintaining military preeminence while cutting the defense budget 2013. and "toughing it out in afghanistan," published in twts. he's also written three marshall papers. a new monograph series from brookings foreign policy program. i'd like to put in a special plug for "beyond nato: a new security architecture for eastern europe" which was published earlier this year. dr. o'hanlon has published several hundred op edds in all the major newspapers and since september 11th, 2001 has appeared on television or radio more than 3

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