it is focused on immediate usage and modernizeation. i think those approaches are more business driven. announcer: watch the communicators monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. joininf adesnik,o is david head of research at the foundation for defense of democracies. with us this morning to talk about the trump administration's foreign policy. withll start overseas national security advisor john bolton telling israel that the president feels that the withdrawal of u.s. troops from israel ticket condition of defeating -- israe'

it is focused on immediate usage and modernizeation. i think those approaches are more business driven. announcer: watch the communicators monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. joininf adesnik,o is david head of research at the foundation for defense of democracies. with us this morning to talk about the trump administration's foreign policy. withll start overseas national security advisor john bolton telling israel that the president feels that the withdrawal of u.s. troops from israel ticket condition of defeating -- israel's condition of defeating the islamic state do not align with united states. what methods -- message do you think the president sent when he said he was going to withdraw u.s. forces? guest: he sent the message that everything his team had been saying for the previous three months was no longer american policy. thathad a firm commitment they were going to sustain troops until they were sure the islamic state was not going to come back. host: did that decision by the president and his advisers give us an indicati

the chinese approach is practical, focused on immediate usage and modernizeation. i think those approaches are more business-driven. >> watch tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> the french in washington, d.c. hosted the impact on multilateralism on peace around the globe. this is an hour 1/2 malice aforethought. jonathan: hi, everyone. welcome, i'm jonathan tepperman. editor and chief of "foreign policy" magazine. tonight's panel is a spinoff from the paris peace forum which the french government hosted on armistice day and tonight our mission is to figure out or at least shed some -- shed some light on some very big, very important questions on the theme you see above you. now, i have to start by confessing a failure. i normally like to begin events like this with a joke and i have to say i spent several days struggling to come up with joke on the theme of how to form multilateralism to form peace and i failed utterly. if any of you have any suggestions during the course of the event, feel free to share. but nonetheless, or perhaps it's because the subject is