with us is richard haass.w the timeline or the timing is important. this is a country and army that has had enough. >> only 30 or 35 years too late. he has been there only president since independence and has destroyed the fabric of the economy and the society. this should be a thriving country but is a destitute country. the good news, hopefully the .obert mugabe era is over none of us can be optimistic about the future but at least there is a chance that the stranglehold he had on his country is over. band as not a one-man he had supporters. if people will tolerate this for 40 years, what makes you think successors will be better? oldike i said, out with the and the history in africa is uneven so we will see. tom: the idea is he is 93 years old, a dictatorship of a long tenure. who is the sphere of influence? i learned this on the council of foreign relations panel. who has influence on zimbabwe? >> south africa the principal in terms of external. i do not know enough about the internal dynamics about what i

trump is sending to the region with: richard haass.served in republican administrations on the national security council staff and in the state department. he is now the president of the council on foreign relations. his latest book is "a world in disarray." and michael pillsbury is a senior fellow at the hudson institute, where he directs the center for chinese strategy. he was also an advisor to the trump transition. to both of you. welcome back to the program. michael pills burry to you first, what is the main thing the president has accomplished on this trip. >> i think there are two or three things. the maining-- main thing is to lay the foundation for his next trip, next year. he laid the foundation. each of these five countries, he's taken very seriously the through multilateral organizations that he met with. he's also integrated trade and security in a very unique way that has not been done for a long time. if you look at his team at some of these meetings, not only has secretary of state tillerson, he's also got bob whitehaas

richard haass, the size of the red carpet is everything, huh?know where to start. i've never seen you speechless as you are today. go. >> the presidency is everything in terms of himself. we never really had an occupant of the oval office who in some ways saw himself not as the stew ard of the job but just in personal terms. he goes out to asia and doesn't see himself carrying the tradition of american foreign policy but how he's treated. did we get closer to resolving the north korea crisis? not obvious to me. united states opted out in terms of forging new regional trade disagreement. politically and right there in the philippines, united states is essentially disavowed its own political dna. how could the president of the united states stand up next to a guy who has committed thousands of extra judicial killings and shouldn't be there talking to him but how could he not make human rights and values the centerpiece of the meeting. this is a trip that in many ways i believe has hurt, not just the image but reality of the united states and the p

ian bremer was in vietnam for the president's stop and president of the eurasia group and richard haass is the author of "the world in disarray." richard, how do you explain the putin thing? it feels as though donald trump just can't stop himself from saying that -- >> for several years now he has been sympathetic, supportive of russia and mr. putin. and even though he tried to correct it at his most recent stop by saying it's important to work with russia on some of these issues, he's basically wrong. you cannot, should not give russia a path any time it violates the basic norms of international order, whether it's interfering in our elections, whether it's taking crimea, using force indiscriminately in syria. what he did is wrong in foreign policy and wrong just in terms of basic morality. >> elise, other than this, the president actually stayed pretty much on script. it was actually striking to listen to donald trump reading from teleprompters, doing the handshakes, you know, mostly no tweets, or certainly no controversial ones. is that how he was received in asia? >> right. at the t

brian class in london, pick up on what richard haass was talking about.ow, what could happen here? >> there's a huge scope for miscalculation, that's how a lot of wars get started. we have two unstable people who are reckless, have nuclear weapons and who are very proun to being defensive when it comes to being their egos at play. think about the first gulf war and the invasion of kuwait started because of a misinterpretation of diplomatic signals. try to interpret donald trump's diplomatic signals and nikki haley's diplomatic signals and which are correct to be sent from the white house. that's where the scope is for an escalation, a provocation to spiral into a conflict that kills hundreds of thousands of people and serves nobody's enter interest. >> brian, you've been talking for a long time. you wrote a book about authoritarianism on the rise. take what's happened over the past 48 hours, you can talk about what's happened over the last 11 months, do you sense a quickening of the pace of this president's autocratic tendencies? >> absolutely. i'm really

and richard haass is the president of the council on foreign relations and author of a world in disarray. richard, how do you explain the putin thing? it feels as though donald trump just can't stop himself from staying that he agrees more with putin than almost any western leader. >> well, the president gets points for consistency. and that might be about it. for several years now he has been sanquine, sympathetic, supportive russia and mr. putin. and even though he tried to correct it at his most recent stop by saying it's important to work with russia on on some of these issues, he's basically wrong. you cannot, you should not give russia a pass anytime it violates the basic norms of international order, whether interfering in our elections, whether taking crimea, whether using force indiscriminately in syria. so what he did is simply wrong in foreign policy and also basic morality. >> elyse, other than on this, the president had actually stayed pretty much on script and was striking to listen to donald trump reading from teleprompters, doing the hand shakes. mostly no tweets or certa

cia director, john brennan to 50 percent from the president of the council of foreign relations, richard haassbut mister trump feels optimistic about the standoff with north korea."ultimately it will all work out. it always works out. it has to work out."i'm john lorinc reporting. (robin)(boxes) a warning if you have netflix... millions of users are now being targeted by an email scam... the scam tells users that their netflix account needs to be updated... it then takes them to a fake website ...where they are asked to log in and put in their credit card information... netflix says if users are un-sure about a website you can hover your cursor over the link to see where it takes you. on most browsers...the link to the real website will be at the bottom of the screen. (robin) the hearing- impaired are often the last to find out about an active emergency... like the recent north bay wildfires. that is according to the people who work at one sign language organization in santa rosa. kron4's haaziq madyun reports. when son

bravado, this kind of unwillingness to focus in on the immediate danger, right, only deepens richard haass's point in this regard. that's the first thing, and the second thing in regard to politics, it makes no sense for the democrats to go to that meeting after that tweet. president trump announced that he was engaging them in bad faith. >> he's a terrible negotiator. the other jarring thing about the tape we just played is to see him deploy with the same sort of cavalier attitude as he placed those two empty chairs, paul ryan and mitch mcconnell as sort of characters with lines to read. and i think they both read some version of how a bill becomes a law. can you just weigh in on the incredible shrinking sort of grace of either the republican leaders in congress? >> it was easy to overlook in that moment that republicans actually control all of washington right now. they control the white house, they control the house, they control the senate. but to casey's point, they need democrats to get this final budget bill passed. it is different than the tax bill, they may be able to do that just w

alex: richard haass thought it was almost 50% and thought it was by accident, meaning there is somethingperhaps to take out a missile while it was being fueled which led to a provocation. i don't think the market view is 50% and would have to say a minority case, 25% less than that. francine: interesting. i like to talk percentage. thanks so much, alex and mike, both back with us shortly. and in the meantime if you have questions for either mike or alex or both, what you do is log on to tv go and underneath the tv screen you can steal a lot of tom keene's chart and we will ask questions on your behalf and it will be tom's pleasure. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: this is "bloomberg surveillance." let's get to the bloomberg business flash. profits grew bigger according to people familiar with the matter. the service lost $1.5 billion. uber is trying to fend off competition. plus is facing more legal challenges and regulatory scrutiny. the latest software for apple mac computers has a significant security flaw and the glitch allows anybody to log in without a passport and access private docum