joining us from washington is steven cook he is a fellow at the council on foreign relations.nsion with turkey does pre-date the current difficulties over the past andrew brunson and turkey has been testing the patience. why do you say the president is getting it right. >> there is a long list that the united states has. the turks have undermined american efforts to contain iran. has helped iran evade u.s. sanctions and complicated the islamic state in syria and buying weapons. and the list goes on. george bush's administration, barack obama's administration have chosen to deal with the challenges in a private manner. to engage with turkish counterparts privately and hope for the best. i think president trump understands that the turks actually have responded to pressure before. the russian government has applied a significant amount of pressure after the turks shot down a war plane. the russian government has applied significant pressure. however the detention of a german journalist. both the germans and russians were able to get positive responses. and i think president trum

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well we can now speak to steven cook, who's an author, and senior fellow of middle east studies at theow has it cost to this stage when you've got these two nato allies and a warof you've got these two nato allies and a war of words, the tariffs being slapped on turkey by president trump, the turkish currency plummeting, it is an extraordinary situation, isn't it? it is in a sense but it is also long in coming. turkey has been masking economic mismanagement for many years through low interest rates. and the day of reckoning for the turkish lira was likely to come. in addition, relations between the united states and turkey have been difficult as also quite time. this war of words thatis also quite time. this war of words that is under way between ankara and washington has been long in coming. notice that president erdogan mentioned the fact that they were strategic partners but that is really in name only. if you look at the conduct of turkish foreign policy over the course of the last five years at least, it has been countered to american priorities and interests. how dangerous, then,

well a little earlier, steven cook, who's a senior fellow of middle east studies at the council on foreignor many years through low interest rates, and the day of reckoning for the turkish lira was likely to come. in addition relations between the two countries have been difficult for quite some time. this war of words that is under way between ankara and washington has been a long time coming. president erdogan mentioned that the countries strategic partners but that is really in name only. if you look at the conduct of turkish foreign policy over the last five years, it has been counter to american priorities and interests. how dangerous then is this for president erdogan of turkey? could the economy imploded? what would be the economy imploded? what would be the implications for him of that happened? there are certainly that we are witnessing the beginning of the economic meltdown. it strikes me that he is calculating that with all of this rhetoric blaming the united states, blaming foreign forces for turkish economic troubles, he can withstand significant economic problems, and turks w

steven cook.e in the past -- i don't know, do we need to go back ten years five years, now. is the biggest recent development the accession of mbs and the implications for this new saudi arabia is that where you are with this? >> well, certainly the emergence of crown prince bin salman is trying to make saudi arabia the most important country in the arab world and he's doing it in a way -- let's say he's breaking dishes rather than seeking consensus. and we see this in first his dramatic ascent to becoming the crown prince moving all of his competitors out of the way very, very quickly. his dramatic reform program which is something that's really going to change the way politics and business is done in saudi arabia and this rather aggressive foreign policy which we're seeing in the very nasty spat with canada of all countries >> it's hard to -- i don't want to view everything as an american, obviously, steve and i don't know who to root for here but i mean, two or three years ago i would have said

i will go from my immediate left, steven cook and senior fellow for the institute alumni and the expert on arab in turkey politics. the struggle from egypt, the book award gold metal and 2012. >> not my recent book, but thank you for mentioning it. >> amanda is next, good friend robert is a senior fellow in the center for united states and europe and her areas of expertise are turkey and southern europe, she has served for nearly ten years and u.s. government, she was previously deputy assistant secretary with cyprus, greece and turkey. max is an associate director of national security and center for american progress focusing on turkey and kurdish issues, he has worked on disarmament and security issues as well as the united nation and another good palace is joining us. were grateful that were able to put this panel together, we set it up nearly two weeks ago there were new sanctions, they have not been implemented but we tend to see this has not been a usual time in the relationship. what we have seen is an unusual relationship in the sense that while tensions existed between u.s. and

cook. >> that's right. steven seagal. yes, that steven seagal, the cook.his action movies have been going straight to video since 1998, vladimir putin apparently believes seagal is the man for this mission. that he has enough star power to carry it out. the 66-year-old actor was named a special representative by russia's ministry of foreign affairs with the goal of bringing the two countries together in the, quote, humanitarian sphere. but it really should not come as a surprise. s seagal and putin are close friends and seagal has defended the russian government saying it's, quote, stupid to think moscow interfered in u.s. elections. seagal also became a russian citizen back in 2016. perhaps seagal will have more success in this role than he's had in hollywood over the past two decades. boom. that will wrap things up for me this hour. ali velshi picks things up right now. ali -- i'm sorry, it's kasie hunt. where's ali? it's kasie hunt! hi there, my friend. >> it's great to see you. i am kasie hunt. hey, it's all good. i am kasie hunt in for ali velshi. we

joining us now is steven cook. he's the author of "false dawn.". >> pleasure. >> you seen this op-ed in "the wall street journal" they've translated it from french nato should give turkey the boot that erdogan is sharing western secrets with people who are -- we consider our rivaling if not our enemies. and now it's time. it wasn't that long ago there was talk about turkey joining the european union and now there's a push from one of the leading french intellectuals to push them out of nato. what do you think of that? >> well, there is no mechanism to push a country out of nato. the only way turkey leaves nato is by its own decision of course turkey is an ally. but it's not a partner that's precisely what bernard is talking about. turkey has undermined american foreign policy with regard to russia, the fight against the islamic state in syria has also undermined american efforts to contain iran and arrest its nuclear development. under those circumstances, it's very, very hard to think of turkey as a strategic ally of the united states and the wes

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cook, bbc news, los angeles. joining me now is richard stevens, professor of community medicine and health care at the university thank you forjoining us. people sitting at home are going to watch the report and be really worried about what they use in their gardens. should they be? the court says it is dangerous to human health and the company who make it say absolutely not. on top of that, the eu say it is safe. this is a highly controversial issue and has been for a long time. some companies put agents in their products they know to be dangerous. some companies inadvertently do that. the monsanto case is hugely important. what kind of tests are conducted on weedkillers like this, that lead to the determination that it is absolutely the determination that it is a bsolutely safe the determination that it is absolutely safe to use? determining absolutely safe to use? determining absolute safety is almost impossible but the world health organization, the way they evaluated the evidence was human studies, epidemiologic, toxicology, giving glyphosate to rats and see what happens, and some basic science. the world h

come, he thinks maybe as soon as 2019 for cook and company to monetize this original content they're building up with hollywood heavy hitters like oprah and stevenelberg, a lot of interesting stuff to come, girl >> sean, you were an early investor in series, sold to apple a number of years ago now look writing it has come, the trillion mark how it leverages that technology. do you wish it had hung onto it longer >> it's a beautiful thing, what's happened with siri's side of apple hundreds of people everyday. it's a momentous occasion. apple's been around 42 years, i'm a couple years older it was my first customer this amazing founding story of steve and steve and building the first computer and founder redemption as he left and came back and the company continuing doubling the market cap after his death, kind of like what you dream of happening inside of companies, a pretty special day for me >> you mentioned the system and let's take a minute to thank our suppliers and business partners and apple community and those that came before us at this remarkable company the success of apple, what does it mean for that ecosystem for apps and developers