we come back with richard haass.-exchange right now, stronger,, euro higher inflation. there is the surprise of the week. 1.36., guy johnson buying drinks next time he is in -- guy johnson buying drinks next over the last 15 years, not a good trend, ambassador. we are not moving in the right direction. do we have any hope president trump with a republican congress right thethe ship -- ship? >> how much worse will it get with tax cuts that won't be paid for, increased spending, and refusal to tackle entitlements? it is an unhealthy trinity. what can me a sense of be done to right the ship. we are trying to figure out what is bluster and what is real. what needs to happen in the next 100 days? >> you want more modest tax cuts and couple them with corresponding spending cuts. what that means is putting entitlements on the board, as difficult as that is politically come maybe less of an increase in defense spending to get them a craddick support, so this is essentially an opening bid. to get democratic support, so this i

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richard haass has been talking about whiplash. said, it never felt so good. maybe he didn't say that, but he did say -- >> in so many words. >> he said if he's going to be changing positions, he's picking the right positions to change to. >> i think richard is right. we need nato to contain putin in eastern europe. it wasn't mentioned yesterday, putin is still in crimea, still dividing eastern ukraine and stoking the flames there. nato is our alliance and we have lots of countries willing to work with us, troops deployed in eastern europe. that seemed right to me. we need china on north korea because kim jong-un, of course, is threatening south korea and japan again. this is a proper sequencing of american foreign policy. i thought actually it was a good day for the trump administration. >> frank, what's happening? >> i don't know what's hang. to me the big question here, are we watching president trump evolve? is he's solving or just playing erratic. i hear people expressing a great deal of satisfaction with some of the more reas

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also with us council on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray" richard haass. former democratic congressman harold ford, jr. >>> richard haass, "world in disarray," a little less after yesterday. you look at the results and everyone focusing on le pen coming in second. the way this is shaping you, it seems mainstream political thought in europe may be a little more back in vogue. >> after dutch election, populism, major bullet dodge yesterday. if le pen and far left candidate are the two top vote getters. emmanuel macron. >> i love when you speak spanish, even the words flow -- >> it was a good day. ultimately structurally in terms of french politics, what a revolution. >> explosion. first time since 1965 you didn't have somebody from center right or center left. this seems to be french people saying, fine, we'll have your political revolution but we're going to do it in a way that doesn't completely uproot french tradition. >> i think you're almost certainlily right. two weeks before the final round, the establishment has already begun to rally around emmanuel

also with us council on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray" richard haass.atic congressman harold ford, jr. >>> richard haass, "world in disarray," a little less after yesterday. you look at the results and everyone focusing on le pen coming in second. the way this is shaping you, it seems mainstream political thought in europe may be a little more back in vogue. >> after dutch election, populism,

with us, former democratic congressman harold ford jr., richard haass and "new york times" reporter jeremybody's holiday weekend? >> great. >> with my kids. it was great. >> richard? >> family upstate. it was great. >> go golf? >> i did. >> did you really? >> i got out there. >> you and the president. >> actually, i would like to get out and golf. >> do you golf? >> i haven't played. my son and i dressed identically. >> cute. >> did you get some pictures? >> i did. >> i have to get pictures of my family. >> we've done the shaving cream tie dye, have you heard of this? >> no. >> you take shaving cream and put food coloring in and roll it around. >> my hens did six eggs over the weekend. can you imagine? three chickens over two days, six eggs. >>> after what north korea unveiled what appeared to be large missiles. launched a missile from a submarine that barely got off the ground before exploding. >>> at his trump -- at his resort in florida, the president celebrated easter. jim mattis released this statement, the president and his military team are aware of north korea's most recent laununs

us now to discuss the president's foreign policy thus far is former state department official richard haassector at the white house has said there is no foreign policy doctorate for the trump administration, does that matter, does there need to be one? on one hand, you want to have some principles. so much is coming into yourinbox, principles. so much is coming into your inbox, you don't want to react to everything in isolation. you don't want to have to make it up every day. but it is way too early to be thinking about a doctorate, 100 days isjust that. it would need to be big and consistent and endure. we may get thereafter a couple of years but in some ways, we shouldn't have one yet. one ideal perhaps of this white house is not to staff itself properly when it comes to the foreign policy side and the president has said this is a deliberate decision he has made, not to fill some of those posts. how does he compared to previous presidents and how much does it hurt america on the world stage not to be staffed properly? it is going much more slowly and even if it were to start up this after

right now i'm going to draw upon one of the best minds on the planet, of course, the great richard haasschard, in your boston globe piece i was talking about grilling, of course -- don't get a big head. in "the boston globe" piece, you write there's no reason for us to fall into the mistaken belief that we must either be in a hot war or a cold war with china, that actually we may be able to work with them in ways that we can't work with russia because china obviously is a massive economy. that economy is integrated across the globe and they actually like us have much to lose with a hot or cold war. talk about that. >> absolutely. that's where the parallels with russia i think break down. russia is one-tenth the size of russia, basically a gas and oil economy. it has coercive force, whether it's cyber or military. china is a real country with a real economy. its future is totally dependent on access to the region and the world. as anja said, what they want to do is have these stable. this is nothing now. the whole jhung show ping of china, this needs to continue. it becomes a very differe

richard haass, complaining about nikki haley said one thing and you've got tillerson saying another thing. >> first time that's ever happened. >> mcmaster saying, it's all consistent. what are you doing following the administration? are you listening more to mcmaster or is there sort of a big brzezinski give-and-take in this administration. >> multiple goals but over different time horizons. in the short run isis, syrian cw, ousting government, regime change is years and years away from us. i'm not sure why we're talking about it that much. we can't make it happen. we're not ready for it. we don't have something to put in its place. what we should be focusing on is going after isis, making sure syrians don't use cw again, an opposition that can take territory in syria. over the next couple of years they can perhaps be partners in getting rid of the regime. >> >> for kids scoring at home cw, chemical weapons, not networks. >>> an attempt to mend a rift causing many to speculate a change in white house staff is immine imminent. according to "new york times" president trump himself ordered s

military analyst, jack jacobs and richard haass, author of "a world in disarray." good morning. >> colonel, to kayla's point, market wants to believe this was efficient. surgical. unexpected. not part of a messy sea change. do you agree? >> yeah, i do agree because you have to take a look at what the objectives were in conducting the strike. one was for domestic political consumption. the president said i draw a line in the sand -- i draw a lot of lines in the sand. the previous president did. and he didn't do anything about it. i'm going to do something about it. the second objective was to as much as possible influence bashar al assad so that he doesn't use weapons of mass destruction again. i think in both cases he's managed to achieve his objectives. very focused strike on one area. unless there are more chemical weapons to be used by assad, probably never to be repeated. >> richard, we do know -- we suspect at least that there are more chemical weapons. what happens if assad pushes this? >> well, if he were to use chemicals again i expect we take out a few mor

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richard haass, thanks for coming in. robin. >> going to turn to another major headline this morning, that tragic shooting at an elementary school in california. here is what we know. the shooter targeted his estranged wife, a teacher, killing her before turning the gun on himself. an 8-year-old was also killed and a fourth victim, a 9-year-old was injured and is now in stable condition. abc's kayna whitworth is on the scene there for us and has more. good morning, kayna. >> reporter: robin, good morning. there were 15 kids in that classroom. and it was a special education classroom. authorities say that those two little boys you just talked about had gotten behind their teacher when the shooting happened. they had nothing to do with the couple who had been married just three short months and had recently separated. tragedy unfolding in san bernardino. >> possible active shooter at north park elementary. >> reporter: after a gunman stormed a special education classroom opening fire on a teacher and two of her students bef

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president of the council on foreign relations and author of "america in world array" richard haass. columnist and associate editor for "the washington post" david ignatius with us as well. willie is back. welcome back. we missed you. >> missed you. did i miss anything? >> no, nothing going really hard. we're working hard to drum up something interesting. that's for sure. we we e begin with the new scrutiny on susan rice. reports from multiple outlets citing sources claim rice requested the identity of some u.s. citizens be included in raw intelligence reports about monitored conversations with foreign targets. typically americans' names are adapted. according to reports those identified were originally left anonymous and had sources tied to the trump campaign. national security council ezra cohen-watnick discovered rice's multiple requests to unmask u.s. persons in intelligence reports that related to trump transition activity. according to the reports, cohen-watnick brought this to the attention of the white house general council's office who reviewed more of rice's request and ins

nobody's going to take a stand against that, it's been pointed out by a lot of people, including richard haassdon't lead, you're the united states, and you don't lead, then there's a vacuum. so i mean -- >> oh, there's no question. >> you supported this? >> sure. the actions of assad were so over the top, with the chemical weapons that the president had to do something. the question is, was it just a punch in the nose or whether there's now a long-term strategy. i don't believe that this is a big change in strategy. assad played the wrong card, quite frankly, with the chemical weapons, for a whole host of reasons, obviously. first because of the terrible nature of them. and the killing of innocent civilians but the fact of the matter is the president's whole campaign and his philosophy has been don't get involved. he was against president obama doing anything in 2013 when there was a question of the red line. he thought he should have done something but he didn't think we should do any more than we should get out of all these engagements. so there's a conflict, obviously, going on between real

as richard haass and everybody has always said, russian foreign policy since christmas day 1991 is about resentment, recentment of losing the cold war. you go into crimea, georgia, places where you're not going to have to have a slow of force. remember how humiliating it is for vladimir putin that his troops in syria have the united states we don't care if you're in syria or not, in fact, we're going to strike your client's state and you're going to do nothing about it. if you want to get your people out of the way, that's fine. if you don't, we're going to kill him. so why does he stay there when he knows he's got a guy like assad. this is not china and north korea. we can't strike north korea. we just can't. but we sure as hell have shown putin we can strike syria even when the warplanes are there. do you know how embarrassing that is for vladimir putin when he's tryingo project streng? a big gas station and i'm in syria, too. great, you can't even protect your client in syria. embarrassing. >> things just got a lot more complicated for him. back in washington there are signs that seni