17 israeli and foreign hostages who were released from captivity in gaza. >>> we are back with richard haass. richard, i want to just take you briefly to the other war that is ongoing in a brutal stalemate right now in ukraine. and it feels like you have an important foreign affairs article, you're saying something similar to what you were just saying about u.s. strategy toward israel. u.s. strategy toward ukraine is publicly 100% supportive, but privately we're worried about where things are going. why did you set out your concern and where do you want -- a fairly substantial course correction? >> yeah, look, the idea that ukraine is on a course hopefully to liberate the 20% of its territory there that russia occupies, the problem is there is very little if any evidence that it is going to be able to achieve that and i worry that european support for ukraine w begin to fade. it is already happening. and i'm arguing that ukraine ought to swip its strategy, not give up on long-term goals of getting back what is theirs, but focus on defending on what it has, on the 80%, and make sure that russ

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richard haass. dr. richard haass is the president and former president of the nonpartisan council on foreign relations. he is also a consultant at centerview partners, an experienced diplomat, policymaker. he served in pentagon, state department and white house under former presidents, democrats and republicans alike. a recipient of the presidential citizen's medal, the state department's distinguished honor award and the temporary international award. he is the author of and editor of 15 books, including the best selling the world. a brief introduction a world of zero a foreign policy and begins at home, another bill of obligation. ten habits of good citizens. he is also an author. the weekly newsletter home and away available on form stock on substack. it is now my distinct honor to dr. richard haass. well, good afternoon. great to be at the miami book fair. great to see books being celebrated and some ways it's great to see them being celebrated outside library. i like the fair is the right word. the

former president emeritus of foreign relations, richard haass. and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. chief international analyst for nbc news. >>> let's get to our top story. willie, take it away. >> let's begin with the high stakes meeting between president biden, chinese leader xi jinping, held in woodside, california, 35 miles south of san francisco, marking their first meeting in just over a year. xi was quoted through a translator as telling president biden, it is not an option for either country to turn its back on the other. also said, there is room enough to co-exist and both be successful. one country's success is an opportunity for the other. president biden said he secured agreements on three major issues, including an effort to reduce the direct shipment of fentanyl in all forms from china to the united states. president biden, importantly, also announced the two militaries will resume direct contact and communication, and that both nations will coordinate on risk and safety issues surrounding artificial intelligence. th

richard haass, let's bring you into the conversation now. as richard mentioned, secretary of state blinken is on the ground in israel. he's expected to ask prime minister netanyahu for some measure of restraint, not a cease-fire but a humanitarian pause, then he'll go on tomorrow to jordan, where he will hear that israel needs to stop what it is doing. it needs to pull back entirely. what is the line he is walking there, and what are the options on the table here between a cease-fire, a humanitarian pause, and everything else that is being discussed? >> yeah, let's start with your second point about going to jordan. as i understand it, willie, there is no longer an israeli ambassador in jordan. the jordanians removed their ambassador from israel. what that tells us is all that's been accomplished on a positive side in the middle east is somewhat vulnerable. we shouldn't assume there can't be backsliding. jordan is a country that is predominantly palestinian and is extraordinarily worried that instability, like we're seeing in gaza, could see

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it's richard haass here.nk you for your consistent voice over the last 40 days on these issues about anti-semitism, about what college and university administrators aren't doing. i want to talk to you about another sentence, though, you used. you talk about people standing up in support for israel. what do you advise young people. for example, if you were to meet with the hundreds of people working around the administration, around congress or signing these open letters, calling for an immediate cease fire, most of them, i would think, are non-anti-semites. how do you distinguish between israel's right of self-defense, but people who disagree with how that right is being carried out. either the attacks or the lack of a political strategy for meeting legitimate palestinian political aspirations. how do you go about parsing that? what do you tell people who are looking for answers here? >> i mean, richard, i think this is really the question of the day. so what i would say to these young people, i mean, i serve

president emeritus on the council of foreign relations, richard haass. >> also a giants fan. >> absolutely. >> you know, richard, the giants can't even, like, lose right. now is the time for them to start losing to get draft picks, and what do they do? they win. you see guys on the field, and they're celebrating. i'm going, what are you celebrating about? also, new york football, it's crazy, the jets, they figure out with two minutes left in the fourth quarter, three quarters of the way through the season, that their quarterback may not be good. >> that's the giants, yes. a time for every purpose under heaven. yesterday was a time to lose and, unfortunately, they didn't read ecclesiastes. >> exactly. >> there you go. >> we have the host of the podcast "on brand with donny deutsch." donny deutsch is with us, as well. >>> we'll start with the top story. defense forces have released new video of what they say is a, quote, fortified terror tunnel under gaza's main hospital. troopingss began their raid, saying hamas has a complex tunnel center under the hospital. video shows a vertical shaft wi

joe. >>> richard haass, you've talked about, again, how there's not an end date for this. curious, how do you think this pause is going to impact america's allies view of this ongoing war, and also, importantly, americans' view of it? will this bring a little bit of political breathing space to the biden administration and its support of israel, trying to root out and destroy hamas? >> absolutely, joe. it's a bit of a respite. i think you'll see a calming down, at least for the near term of open ended complete cease fire, a temporary cease fire, so it i think it lowers the temperature all around. but it's temporary. it's welcome, given what we have gone through whether it's on campuses, the street, the u.n. and elsewhere. i think it's good. i do think we could see a revival of it, depending upon if and when israel is renewing a military operation in the south against hamas, which causes civilian casualties inevitably and so far. it's not more than that. i don't mean to rain on this, this was an important accomplishment. this doesn't change the fundamentals, and indeed, it

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joining us now, president e mer emeritus, richard haass. as always, it's a pleasure.. we know some of what they're going to cover in this conversation. it's going to be security. it's going to be climate change, military communication, obviously the ongoing wars that are happening overseas. russia, ukraine, israel-hamas. what do you see as the best way the president can make end roads here with xi? >> the best way he can make end roads is taking advantage of what president xi wants most. he wants to stabilize the u.s.-china when i can relationship. for china not to do anything highly disruptive, for example, arming russia. not to do anything in terms of helping iran. so basically to get china not to do things, obviously taiwan, not to use force to coerce taiwan to do anything, and that's essentially the u.s. goal, to make sure the differences between the two countries doesn't erupt into yet another crisis in the world at a time when we're already dealing with one in europe and a second one in the middle east. >> why would xi listen to president biden heed those calls,

richard haass, thank you, as well.to see ya. >>> ahead, new images of the 4-year-old american-israeli, abigail idan, about her release from hamas. we'll speak with her great aunt and cousin about her ordeal in captivity, as the israel and hamas troop enters its fifth day. >>> plus, chris christie joins the conversation to talk about his recent trip to israel. "morning joe" is coming right back. the subway series? it's the perfect menu lineup. just give us a number, we got the rest. number three? the monster. six? the boss. fifteen? titan turkey. number one? the philly. oh, yeah, you probably don't want that one. look, i'm not in charge of naming the subs. if you have this... consider adding this. an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan from unitedhealthcare. medicare supplement plans help by paying some of what medicare doesn't... and let you see any doctor. any specialist. anywhere in the u.s. who accepts medicare patients. so if you have this... consider adding this. call unitedhealthcare today for your free decis

richard haass. dr. richard haass is the president and former president of the nonpartisan council on foreign relations. he is also a consultant at centerview partners, an experienced diplomat, policymaker. he served in pentagon, state department and white house under former presidents, democrats and republicans alike. a recipient of the presidential citizen's medal, the state department's distinguished honor award and the temporary international award. he is the author of and editor of 15 books, including the best selling the world. a brief introduction a world of zero a foreign policy and begins at home, another bill of obligation. ten habits of good citizens. he is also an author. the weekly newsletter home and away available on form stock on substack. it is now my distinct honor to dr. richard haass. well, good afternoon. great to be at the miami book fair. great to see books being celebrated and some ways it's great to see them being celebrated outside library. i like the fair is the right word. the

the website of the council on foreign relations is the foundational intellectual input of richard haasss the miles he has clocked on airplanes for this nation. michael, thrilled you could join us. congratulations with the new effort with the council on foreign relations. it is busy out there what are you focused on right now? michael: we see a return of rate power politics with russia at war, the emergence of a multidimensional competition with china, and you have got the war in the middle east breaking out and global issues like pandemics and climate change. there are a lot of issues on the global agenda, a lot of demands for cooperation, precisely at a time when there is a lot of fragmentation. it is challenging. tom: there is a bipartisan tone to the council on foreign relations. in this new foreign affairs magazine, you work with president obama, mr. gates, secretary of defense, with an important essay. is it a bipartisan debate in washington? or is our politics so fractured we are not having a normal cfr debate? michael: the country is more polarized politically than ever. when it