THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [ APPLAUSE ]
>> YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO
PRESIDENT TRUMP DELIVER A
NOTABLY SUBDUED ADDRESS TO THE
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
A NOTABLY NATIONALISTIC ADDRESS
IN WHICH THE PRESIDENT TOUTED
THE U.S. AS THE POST POWERFUL
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, DIRECTLY
CON FRONLTD CHINA AND TALKS
ABOUT OTHER KEY ISSUES AS IT
RELATES TO ISSUES LIKE IRAN AND
NORTH KOREA.
NORTH KOREA. THE PRESIDENT MAKING HIS CASE IN
FRONT OF THIS COALITION OF
ALLIES IN SOME INSTANCES
ADVERSARIES IN THE OTHER.
AGAIN, RATHER MUTED IN PRESIDENT
TRUMP HERE IN WHAT IS A CLOSELY
WATCHED SPEECH AROUND THE WORLD.
I WANT TO BRING IN KRISTEN
WELKER WHO IS AT THE UNITE
NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND
CAROL LEE, AMBASSADOR
CHRISTOPHER HILL,
CHRISTOPHER HILL, CHRISTOPHER HILL, NATIONAL
SECURITY ANALYST EVELYN FARCASS,
AND FORMER ADVISER TO THE UNITED
NATIONS AND ALSO BRET McGIRK,
SOME OF THE SMARTEST ANALYSTS
AND LEADING CONTRIBUTORS AROUND
THE COUNTRY.
THE COUNTRY. LET’S GET YOUR TAKEAWAYS FROM
WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE PRESIDENT
AND REACTION FROM THE ROOM.
IT SEEMED THAT THERE WERE
MURMURS WHEN THE PRESIDENT
TALKED ABOUT THE U.S. IS THE
MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY.
HE SAYS THE FUTURE DOES NOT
BELONG TO GLOBALISTS WHICH
APPEARS TO BE THE PRESIDENT’S
PHILOSOPHY MOVING FORWARD AS IT
RELATES TO AMERICA FIRST.
>> Reporter: THAT’S RIGHT.
THIS WAS DOUBLING, TRIPLING DOWN
ON HIS AMERICA FIRST FOREIGN
POLICY, SOME MURMURS IN THE ROOM
WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
AS YOU NOTED, THIS WAS A PRETTY
SUBDUED SPEECH.
SUBDUED SPEECH. SO THE REACTION FROM THE
AUDIENCE WAS LARGELY SUBDUED AS
WELL.
WELL. ALTHOUGH WORTH NOTING THAT THE
VENEZUELAN DELEGATION DID HAVE A
REACTION WHEN THE PRESIDENT
CALLED FOR OTHER COUNTRIES TO
GET TOUGHER ON VENEZUELA.
AMONG THE TOP LINES FOR ME,
CERTAINLY HIS COMMENTS ON IRAN.
PRESIDENT TRUMP REITERATING THAT
THE UNITED STATES WILL NOT LIFT
SANCTIONS AS LONG AS IRAN
CONTINUES ITS MALIGN BEHAVIOR,
THE PRESIDENT ACCUSING IRAN OF
CONTINUING TO ENGAGE IN WARS AS
WELL AS CONTINUING TO
ESSENTIALLY FOMENT
ESSENTIALLY FOMENT ANTI-SEMITISM.
ANTI-SEMITISM. HE SAID THE UNITED STATES WILL
NOTAL RATE TALOLERATE IT.
HE TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT
THE U.S. JUST IMPOSED NEW
SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN BUT OPEN
TO FRIENDSHIP, SO LEAVING THE
DOOR OPEN TO DIPLOMACY.
>> AND I THINK IT IS FAIR TO
CALL THE SPEECH A LANGUID ONE,
EVEN AS HE DELIVERED WARNINGS
VERY DIRECTLY TO SOME OF THE
PEOPLE THAT HE WANTED TO DELIVER
WARNINGS TOO INCLUDING BY THE
WAY MIGRANTS LOOKING TO CROSS
THE BORDER.
THE BORDER. TELLING THEM DO NOT COME TO THE
U.S.
U.S. >> YEAH, HE WAS REALLY
AGGRESSIVE ABOUT THAT AND VERY
AGGRESSIVE ON THE THREE THINGS
THAT ARE SORT OF MOST FRONT AND
CENTER FOR HIM IN TERMS OF HIS
CAMPAIGN SETTING AS SIDE THE
UKRAINE CONTROVERSY.
UKRAINE CONTROVERSY. IRAN, CHINA AND TRADE AND THE
MIGRANT CRISIS.
MIGRANT CRISIS. >> NO SURPRISE THAT TRADE WAYS
HIS FIRST POINT OUT OF THE GATE
AND DIRECT CONFRONTATION WITH
CHINA SITTING IN THE ROOM.
>> HE SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON
CHINA, IRAN AND THE BORDER.
ON CHINA HE NOT ONLY WENT AFTER
THEM ON TRADE, BUT ALSO HONG
KONG WHICH WE HAVEN’T HEARD THE
PRESIDENT SPEAK A TON ABOUT AND
HE BASICALLY SAID, YOU KNOW,
QUOTE, WE WILL -- HOW THEY
RESPOND SAYS A GREAT DEAL ABOUT
CHINA’S ROLE IN THE WORLD IN THE
FUTURE AND HE SPECIFICALLY
CALLED OUT PRESIDENT XI.
>> SOMETHING WE HAVEN’T HEARD
FROM HIM BEFORE.
>> YEAH.
>> YEAH. AND ON IRAN, HE TALKED A HOT
ABOUT WHAT IRAN IS DOING AND
THAT THEY WILL KEEP THE
SANCTIONS ON, BUT NO SENSE OF
HOW THAT THEY WOULD RESPOND TO
THE STRIKE ON THE SAUDI ARABIA
OIL FACILITIES.
OIL FACILITIES. SO THAT IS STILL A BIG OPEN
QUESTION.
QUESTION. >> EVELYN, YOU MADE THE POINT
BROADLY THAT IT FELT LIKE MORE
OF A STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
THAN A U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY
GIVEN HOW NATIONALISTIC
PRESIDENT TRUMP SEEMED.
>> AND YES, IT SOUNDED TO ME
LIKE THE STATE OF THE UNION
ADDRESS WHICH WAS COMPLETELY
INAPPROPRIATE FOR THIS AUDIENCE.
NOT THE FIRST TIME THE PRESIDENT
HAS DONE THIS.
BUT THAT PLUS THE AMERICA FIRST,
YOU KNOW, AND HE CONFUSED SO
MANY THINGS.
MANY THINGS. HE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT A STATE IS
VERSUS A NATION.
HE SAYS IF YOU LOVE YOUR NATION,
YOU WILL HAVE PEACE.
ACTUALLY IT IS IF YOU LOVE YOUR
STATE.
STATE. BECAUSE NATIONS CAN BE
ETHNICALLY DEFINED, RELIGIOUS
LIE DEFINED.
LIE DEFINED. IT IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT
AMERICA IS.
AMERICA IS. SO I THINK THE MESSAGE WAS
REALLY NEGATIVE.
REALLY NEGATIVE. IT WAS EITHER JUST LIKE A STATE
OF THE UNION AS I SAID OR JUST
SLAMMING EVERYONE ELSE AND
PUTTING AMERICA FIRST.
>> BOAST HILLAMBASSADOR HILL, I
REACTION.
REACTION. AS ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING OF
COURSE THAT SHENANDOAHAED DOUGH
STILL HANGING OVER PRESIDENT
TRUMP.
TRUMP. DID HE DO A GOOD ENOUGH JOB
WORKING TO SORT OF CHANGE THE
SUBJECT HERE, DO YOU THINK HIS
FOCUS ON ISSUES LIKE IRAN WILL
BE EFFECTIVE WITH THE ALLIES
THAT HE WANTS TO BUILD A ROWE
COALITION WITH IN THE ROOM?
>> NO, I DON’T THINK HE CHANGED
THE DIALOGUE AT ALL.
FRANKLY THE WHOLE SPEECH AND I
LIKE YOUR USE OF THE WORD
LANGUID, THAT IS GOOD HOW I
WOULD DESCRIBE IT.
IT WAS ALMOST LIKE ONE OF THESE
STATEMENTS PEOPLE HAVE TO READ
WHO ARE BEING CAPTURED BY
TERRORISTS OR SOMETHING.
HE JUST KIND OF WENT THROUGH IT,
HIS EYES WERE ALMOST WEIRDLY
CLOSED AS HE DID IT.
AND I DON’T THINK THAT HE
OFFERED ANY PROGRAMMATIC WAY
FORWARD.
FORWARD. AND HE SEEMED TO EQUATE MIDDLE
EAST TERRORISM WITH IRAN.
AND FRANKLY, AS WE KNOW ABOUT
SUNNI TERRORISM, IT IS A FAR
MORE COMPLEX ISSUE THAN THAT.
AND THEN HE WENT THROUGH A BUNCH
OF ISSUES SOME OF WHICH SEEMED
TO BE EFFORTS BY IVANKA TO PUT
STUFF IN THE SPEECH.
SO FIRST OF ALL, I’M NOT EVEN
SURE HE READ IT BEFORE HE
ACTUALLY DELIVERED IT.
AND SECONDLY, I DON’T THINK THAT
THERE IS A LOT TO WORK THERE
WITH AND I THINK THAT THE
CHINESE AND OTHERS PROBABLY JUST
LOOKED AT THEIR CALENDAR AGAIN
AND SAID OKAY, 13 MORE MIRNTSS S
OF THIS GUY.
SO I DON’T THINK IT WAS A GOOD
USE OF HIS TIME OR FRANKLY THE
U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S.
>> AND THE PRESIDENT ALSO
ADDRESSED ISSUES THAT ARE OF THE
UTMOST IMPORTANCE IN THE MIDDLE
EAST.
EAST. HE DIDN’T TALK MUCH ABOUT THE
MIDEAST PEACE PLAN WHICH I THINK
IS NOTABLE GIVEN THAT HE HAS
COME UNDER FIRE FOR SEEMING TO
MOVE AWAY FROM THAT.
BUT HE DID AS THE AMBASSADOR HAS
NOTED AND I KNOW THAT YOU PICKED
UP ON DISCUSS A LOT ABOUT IRAN
KEEPING THE DOOR OPEN TO
POTENTIAL DIPLOMACY, BUT WE KNOW
THAT THE PRESIDENT IS NOT
PLANNING TO MEET AND SAID HE IS
NOT PLANNING TO MEET WITH THE
IRANIAN LEADER WHILE HERE.
ALTHOUGH AGAIN, HE IS NOT RULING
THAT OUT EITHER.
>> OBVIOUSLY HE HAS GIVEN THE
SPEECH AT THE U.N., BUT IT IS
REALLY INTENDED FOR THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO READ IT.
ALL THE THEMES ARE HIS CAMPAIGN
THEMES.
THEMES. THE EMPTY GLOBALISM, EMPTY
SOCIALISM, EMPTY MEDIA, EMPTY
ACADEMICS.
ACADEMICS. BUT EVEN ON IRAN, IT IS REALLY
AN AMERICAN AUDIENCE BECAUSE HE
HAS PUT HIMSELF ON A SLIPPERY
SLOPE TO A WAR HE DOESN’T WANT.
AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T
WANT.
WANT. I’M ABOUT TO RELEASE A POLL THAT
SHOWS OVER 75% OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE INCLUDING A MAJORITY OF
REPUBLICANS DON’T WANT WAR WITH
IRAN EVEN AFTER THAT ATTACK ON
THE SAUDI OILFIELD AND SHOWS
ALSO THAT HE HAS HIGHER
DISAPPROVAL RATINGS IN HIS
HANDLING OF IRAN INCLUDING AMONG
REPUBLICANS AFTER THAT ATTACK.
SO YOU HAVE A SITUATION WHERE HE
IS SOUNDING TOUGH ON IRAN, BUT
OBVIOUSLY HOLDING AN OLIVE
BRANCH.
BRANCH. AND I THINK IN THE END GIVEN
THAT THE IRANIANS UNDERSTAND
HIM, THEY ARE TRYING TO GIVE HIM
WHAT HE WANTS WHICH IS SOMETHING
WHERE HE CAN BEST OBAMA
PARTICULARLY ON THE NUCLEAR
DEAL, AT THE SAME TIME A WAY TO
OVERT WAR.
OVERT WAR. THAT IS WHERE THE AMERICAN
PUBLIC IS AND I THINK THAT THAT
IS WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT IN THE
COMING WEEKS IN SPITE OF WHAT HE
SAID.
SAID. >> AND LET ME REMIND FOLKS WHAT
THE PRESIDENT HAD TO SAY ABOUT
IRAN IN THE SPEECH WE JUST
LISTENED TO.
LISTENED TO. WATCH.
WATCH. >> IN RESPONSE TO IRAN’S RECENT
ATTACK ON SAUDI ARABIA OIL
FACILITIES, WE JUST IMPOSED THE
HIGHEST LEVEL OF SANCTIONS ON
IRAN CENTRAL BANK AND SOVEREIGN
WEALTH FUND.
WEALTH FUND. AS LONG AS IRAN’S MENACING
BEHAVIOR CONTINUES, SANCTIONS
WILL NOT BE LIFTED.
>> BRET, THIS IS A REGION YOU
KNOW WELL, IN PARTICULAR THE
FIGHT AGAINST TERROR IN PLACES
LIKE AFGHANISTAN.
LIKE AFGHANISTAN. THE PRESIDENT ADDRESS ASED AS WE
EXPECTED WHAT HE DESCRIBES AS
HIS WORK WITH A COALITION OF
AFGHAN PARTNERS, BUT CLEARLY AN
ISSUE THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD HAD
TROUBLE GETTING HIS ARMS AROUND,
NOT HELPED BY THOSE TALKS THAT
WERE ULTIMATELY SCRAPPED.
>> YOU KNOW, IF I GRADE THE
PRESIDENT ON A CURVE HERE, THE
SPEECH WAS FINE.
I WAS AT THE LAST TWO U.N.
GENERAL ASSEMBLIES.
GENERAL ASSEMBLIES. FIRST SPEECH HE TALKED ABOUT A
ROCKET MAN, SUICIDE MISSION,
THAT WE MIGHT HAVE TO DESTROY
NORTH KOREA.
NORTH KOREA. LAST YEAR HE GOT LAUGHED AT BY
THE CHAMBER WHEN HE SAID HE WAS
THE MOST SUCCESS TESTIMONY
PRESIDENT. --
PRESIDENT. -- SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENT.
SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENT. >> SO IS THIS A LOW BAR?
>> I THINK IT IS A LOW BAR.
THE GLOBALISM AND PATRIOTISM IS
SOMETHING THAT HE HAS USED
BEFORE AND AS A DIPLOMAT, HOW
THAT SOUNDS TO OTHER COUNTRIES,
THAT IS HOW XI JINPING SPEAKS
ABOUT CHINA AND HOW VLADIMIR
PUTIN SPEAKS ABOUT RUSSIA.
AND SMALLER COUNTRIES ASK US
WHAT IS TRUMP TALKING ABOUT, DO
WE WANT TO UNLEASH THE FORCES OF
NATIONAL AM AROUNDISM AROUND THE
BUT OUR FOREIGN POLICY IS A BIT
OF A MESS.
WE HAVE ALL THESE GRAND
OBJECTIVES, BUT IRAN IS KEY.
I AGREE THAT WE ARE ON A
TRAJECTORY FOR A CONFLICT WITH
IRAN.
IRAN. I DON’T THINK THAT TRUMP
UNDERSTANDS THIS.
UNDERSTANDS THIS. HE THINKS IRAN IS LIKE NORTH
KOREA.
KOREA. WE CAN THREATEN THEM AND THEY