away from the past week and i would say for most of the foreign policy establishment, it has been what dave ignation at the end. it is about the fact that he now is actually focusing on china in a constructive way ahead of very good meeting so he seems to be tilting a bit towards china and a bit more against russia. >> well, the important thing is pillar is a foreign policy that david mentioned in the column. engaging with china and care with russia and follow that path and get more on base on what have been the alliances that propelled our strengths and projection of power around the world. it is extremely important if you can keep it up. our allies were worried up until now. they were constantly, you know, setting up flares and alliances and u.s. military force. this is all reassuring. it is fascinating to me where you saw the obama alumni and president obama was lit on it for a time >> i was surprised by just how ready they all were to jump in the obam administration which suggests that i am sure -- i am sure people like samantha powell -- >> but, john kerry, i did not hear too much from

what i'd like to ask my colleagues starting with tom is the question famously that dave petraeus asked as the iraq invasion started, tell me how this ends. >> the best case scenario, david, what's been -- we want to negotiate a solution that moves assad out but does not collapse the syrian government. that's the key thing. we don't want to produce another iraq where the syrian system collapses and then you truly have chaos. what has been missing in our diplomacy, and you and i have talked about this, david, weave had no leverage. we really had no leverage on the russians or the iranians, i think this begins to introduce some leverage into the equation. it may be that putin says, if the reports are true, that assad did this without consulting the russians. this is a huge embarrassment for the russians and the iranians. notice they're ducking. they don't want to be the protectors of a poison gas user. it may create an opening where we can have a dialogue with putin, how do we ease this guy out and together we can fight isis. the weakness of trump's strategy, when he came in, he said i'm

you do need as dave ignatius said, you need a strong chief of staff and donald trump has to trust reince priebus to be that strong chief of staff in a leon panetta form, or he needs to find somebody that he does. >> is there a problem with that. here is the problem that reince faces or anybody else put in that position or given that position. i do not seen -- and i've seen it on the inside -- i do not see any evidence ever or any possibility of this president becoming someone who will listen. i have never seen him listen. i have never seen him listen. i've seen him talk. i have not seen him completely listen. you talk and you get in there. people talk to him. they all want a little bit of attention. they are all nervous. they are all kind of kept in a position where they feel like at any moment everything could be thrown away and they would be thrown out the door, so everyone is nervous. he talks and then he asks a question, and maybe you'll get ten second in there to start a thought. and then there's talking about something else. there is no listening. that's something that fundamentall

that became dave petraeus' way. he was key to helping him think through. i saw him in afghanistan. he had the insight. the problem in afghanistan is it wauz corrupt, broken society. unless you fix the corruption, you can't fix the place. it's a terrific choice. when john mccain, your biggest critic says you made an outstanding choice, president trump, that's a good sign. too little experience in national security policy. he's a smart man and he'll learn. >> the harshest critics of trump were some of those praising him the most yesterday for this selection. what's so interesting is, you have a cabinet with generals that actually are acting as a moderating influence on a commander in chief because they have been in the middle of the most ha lashs battles. there's nothing glorious about power. it has limits that soft power, as we found out, it does more than hard power a lot of times. that's really important. when you start looking around the general, around donald trump, i love what somebody said about general mattis. he thought he was getting pat ton, he ended up with george marshal

dave campbell. we want to start with opioids. chris christie is finally here, his big focus. marco rubio talking about it in the state of florida. it's been a real problem in new england. in new hampshire, that's what everybody was talking about. are we making progress on this battle? what's going on? >> it's a terribly big problem. it's ahronic disease. it's a disease of addiction. it's been spiked by the up tick and the availability of the synthetic version of the potent opioid. if you look at the cost of heroin per kilogram, $35,000. >> right. >> a kilogram of this is like $3,000 and would kill an entire city. most of the drugs available now are laced with this because it makes the drug go further for the drug distributor. kids are dying. it's cheap and very, very potent. 50 times more potent. >> what is the answer to the problem? we hear donald trump talking about a crackdown on the border and all the stuff they are going to do, a war on drugs that's been fought 30 years. what do you do about this, mostly a prescription drug epidemic? >> it's a prescription and synthetic,

. >> dave urban all have reservations about coming in for personal reasons, financial reasons, whatever entanglements they have. >> they don't want to hire lawyers the second they walk through the door? >> a lot of people are worried about that, do i need to get a lawyer now? >> yes, they do. >> think about lewandowski. you have to understand if you go in, you'll have to hire legal counsel. >> going in is always a sacrifice, as jeremy knows. going in now adds three more sacrifices. chaos in there. it's an unstable work situation. two, you're stepping into legal peril, potentially, might have legal bills and, three, the warring factions. you're asked basically to sign up to be on a team when you go in there now and there are lots of teams to sign up for. that is a confusing and dangerous place to be. >> i can't imagine anybody in their right mind who would want to step into that. >> it is a good point that you make, bob, that we had the president bannon era and then president bannon was moved to the side. >> president steven miller. >> we never called miller president. we called him tiny

senator, we have dave ignatius and katty kay standing by. but first mike barnicle has a question for you. mike. >> last weekend i was in berlin, with a group of people from the india, saudi arabia, turkey, kuwait, and they were all universally concerned about the erratic nature of this presidency in dealing with specifically allies around the world, wondering where it was all going and seemingly indicating this was weakening our picture in the world. do you pick up on that, hear anything about that from our allies? >> as a member of foreign relations committee i have members come in every week. i've traveled since the inauguration to speak to leaders in europe. the world is freaked out right now because they see american leadership vanishing before their eyes. it's not just the erratic nature of the trump administration. one day you have nikki haley coming out and talking about russia being ukraine. two days later the president of the united states cast doubt whether russians ever invade ukrain one day we're against one china policy, another

what was the turning point for dave? >> it might be climate. he and i both believe climate change is an existential threat. i told him last night, look, i have three grandchildren. i don't want them in 50 years saying grandpa, you knew climate change was happening. you were a united states senator. why didn't you do anything? also i'll still be alive because i'll be 110 then. >> i know. what's with grandpa? when is he going to leave. >> the new book. >> when is grandpa just going to die? that's what they are doing to say. >> they won't be saying that. they will be, gosh, we love grandpa. thank you for investments in nih, national institute of health. >> that's what they will be saying. >> they are here. >> they are so cute. >> those are the grandchildren. >> oh, my goodness. oh, my gosh, hi, adrian, very cute. >> cutie. >> very happy. >> that's jacob and his brother charl charlie. >> that's, joe, my oldest with avery. he's torturing avery there. >> they do. okay, will. >> the news is so heavy and relentless and feels heavy to so pane people bec

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