mr. rothkopf: political campaigns are tidy. you get to control you want to talk about and you get to assert that you can control things in the future in a way you will not be able to. as soon as he is in office, president trump will be dealing with afghanistan, iraq, syria, unexpected crises around the world. and he will have to deal with them, and that will take -- him off of his agenda. it will also introduce them into the real world in a way that he has never been exposed to it before because he has no foreign policy experience. host: every president has been tested by foreign-policy issues, the bay of pigs with john kennedy, the iran hostage crisis with jimmy carter, the attacks on the marine base with ronald reagan. how do the president trump should prepare for the unforeseen circumstances? mr. rothkopf: well, i would have preferred to have a president with foreign-policy experience. we tend not to elect presidents much foreign-policy experience. six of the last seven presidents had virtually none. as far as what he can do

mr. rothkopf i think you are the , right wing, the extreme right. you are the neo-conservative the , person who wants to push us into war. we do want to be friends with russia, syria, turkey, the whole world. and you and your groups, you are the people who are constantly pushing for war. you are at the extreme right, and you want to call donald trump right? he is dead center. remember what ronald reagan said, "there is no left or right, just up and down." you are the right wing that brings us down. you are no better than the left that brings us down. i hope americans look at the foreign policy of all you so-called experts and see what you brought us for the past 40 years. thank you so much. guest: [laughter] what am i supposed to say to such nonsense? so, first of all i am not a , neocon. i was in the clinton administration. for those who want to accuse me of the a left winger because i was in the clinton administration, i was also in -- the managing director of kissinger's association. i think in the tradition of foreign-policy experts for a long t

mr. trump and his team. >> woodruff: david rothkopf, i hear you say there are signalsg sent by the conversation thatio donald trump had with vladimir putin, for example.ti >> of course, and there are signals that are being sent with tweets intimidating the "times" and signals being sent for who he's evaluating for key offices and who might be the people that he chooses to appoint to those offices and, you know, yes, it k would be nice, ideally, if we could set aside the politics for a moment, but some of these things are not political. when you take somebody who's run a publication that's white supremacist, misogynist publication and appoint him right next door to the president in the white house, that sends a message, particularly in europep right now where there's a rising tide of the right. o one of those people who he's appointed, steve bannon, has already sent a message to the lapen team who is going to contend for the presidency of france next year, extreme right wingers. he's saying, look, we'll help you, we're part of the rising tide of the right.isgh so actions are being taken, choices are being mad