this is an existential reflection on what richard haas projected. if states are not going to be the powerful mechanism by which we organize global politics and economics, what is? and should we be trying at the end of the era of the state to shore up states? again, i think there are strong bureaucracies. israel, turkey, iran, eegypt, tunis tunisia. they, themselves, are becoming increasely the tools of purposes and not serving the sort of formal -- as the sort of formal impersonal apparatus that can effectively collect taxes, distribute goods and provide services equitably among citizens. iran is already deeply sectarian. the ethnic and religious coloration of turkey's state is becoming more and more apparent. in egypt, competing networks of pourer, saudi supported salifies, a u.s. supported military industrial complex has been jockeying for supremacy. even in israel, the attachment to mid 20th century norms of secular citizenship is giving away to open expressions of religious and ethnic bias. so clearly even in the strong states, the question of w

richard haas, the symbolism of thus, any concerns?cerns in the region are just that. the united states moving closer to japan. for the president, it's a tight rope to go there. this was an act that saved enormous number of american lives. it hastened the end of the war. a lot of people also think it saved some japanese lives because had there been an invasion, the amount of japanese that would have died would have been far greater than those that died with the two bombings. how do you go there to acknowledge and not apologize. that's the tight rope. that's why the president was talking not so bmuch about the past but about the future to reduce or get rid of nuclear arms, which unfortunately doesn't look like it's going to happen. >> how did the president do navigating that? >> the problem is going there is -- he avoided any explicit statement. it's the implicit that simply by going there, there will be those that say japan hasn't done enough to do certain types of apologies. hasn't dealt with the issue. so we've met them more than hal

i like what richard haas said this morning, it's a shock that no one can see coming.eally wonder what could be the shock they could adjust or amend it either way as we go to the 23rd. jonathan: this friday, it's a self-imposed quiet time. tom: mind is to cook cork in it. thathan: moving up to point, if the polls are anything to go by, very much behind the remain campaign. the sense that you have -- is it working? tom: i don't have an opinion. i think it's such a unique domestic moments that people outside just -- we can't get a true handle on it. on very nervous to opine what i think will happen within the gritty united kingdom. i just don't think i'm qualified to do it. says thisrichard haas is political fragmentation. there are two big local questions to be answered. one is the uk's future in the eu, the other is the presidential campaign as well. if one is looking more certain than the other, -- tom: you wonder what tomorrow will top the day before. sides, we are beginning to frame how ugly this campaign will be. there's a grand american tradition of ugly campaigns

richard haas, a president that has to lead a nation into war or make a nation sacrifice financially perhapsthe numbers back up. again, they're stunning. not that i don't want to see richard's face, he is beautiful, but these numbers. 31% favorablity for hillary clinton. 26% for donald trump. how does a president lead? >> the one thing we know is whoever wins is going to inherit an extremely demanding inbox. this doesn't shout mandate. this doesn't shout a country coming together ready to step up and make tough decisions on the budget or deficit or taxes or big foreign policy questions. you always get the sense whoever wins is going to enter into the white house with a lot of headwinds and a real challenge to bring the country together to step up to some difficult decisions. >> what's makes it worse is trump is going to go after clinton with a vengeance. clinton has already promised to spend a lot of money going after him. >> there have been some things said that are just beyond the pale of what anyone would talk about. >> six more months of that. >> yeah. >> and how do those numbers get any