Richard N. Haass: “I would say no. I would be quite explicit. I would say our policy won't work and it's not worth it.”

Everything we do, everything we are as a society, as an economy, sends a message, sets an example. So Charlottesville, that's foreign policy. When the economy grows, that's foreign policy.

The disconnect or the gap between the pace of political change which is now going quite quickly, and the scale of the economic problems, people should be worried about how Egypt is going to go.

Clearly the President though is making an investment in Kim Jong-un. Clearly he believes, Anderson, that flattery and personal relationships and chemistry somehow hold the key to what's going to happen here.

Distancing ourselves from Pakistan would be unwise and extremely dangerous.