Trump Lays Out "America First" Foreign Policy; Clinton Vs. Trump On Foreign Policy.
CAMEROTA: Donald Trump attempting to look more presidential with a scripted speech outlining his "America First" foreign policy. Trump blasting the Obama-Clinton doctrine which he says "blazed a path of destruction." But, where do Trump and Hillary really differ on foreign policy?Let's dive into that with Aaron David Miller. He's vice president of New Initiatives and a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. Aaron David, great to have you here with us. Just to remind everybody of your phenomenal credentials, you, of course, have been a Middle East negotiator for lots of different presidential administrations, so it's wonderful to have you walk us through what we heard yesterday. What did you think of Donald Trump's foreign policy speech?</s>AARON DAVID MILLER, V.P. & DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR, WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER: You know, the good news is, Alisyn, I think that on paper it creates a benchmark and a set of metrics by which to judge whether or not he will remain consistent -- non- contradictory in some of his positions. But I found the speech, frankly, in many respects, rambling and really incoherent. It was kind of a collection of bromide slogans, unrealizable objectives all tied together --</s>CAMEROTA: What's that -- what part is unrealizable?</s>MILLER: I mean --</s>CAMEROTA: What did he say that's undoable?</s>MILLER: What Donald trump seems to be saying, and remember, campaigning is like living in a galaxy far, far away. Meanwhile, back on planet earth you have to govern. So it's highly arguable whether or not any of the positions that Trump has advanced during the campaign would survive should he become president and have to deal a very imperfect world. But, what he essentially is saying is trust me. I'm the world's greatest negotiator. I know how to deal with Putin and I will deal with him. I know how to destroy ISIS. I won't tell you how or why or when, but I have the answers. And I'm the one who understands the economic realities of kind of a populous, protectionist economic policy. So, nobody was expecting a detailed roadmap but what we got, essentially, again, was a set of bromides and previously expressed campaign positions tied together into well-ordered paragraphs and, frankly, that's not enough. What I find so intriguing, though, is that there really is a common problem. Whether it's an R or a D, or a he or a she who sits in the White House in 2017, they're going to face a world. Trump or Hillary Clinton -- that's basically divided into migraine headaches and root canals. And the imperfect options that they're going to face, I would argue, on several key issues may well -- I know I don't want to break the bank of credibility here, but it may actually produce responses on several key issues that have Hillary and Donald Trump sharing some common ground.</s>CAMEROTA: OK, that's interesting. So where do you see their common ground?</s>MILLER: Well, I think there are three issues. One, of course, is what to do about the Islamic State.</s>CAMEROTA: OK, let me stop -- sorry, Aaron. Let me stop you right there because I want to juxtapose the things that Hillary and Donald Trump have said about that in just sort of a little nugget for you. Listen to this.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It cannot be an American fight and I think what the president has consistently said, which I agree with, is that we will support those who take the fight to</s>ISIS. DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We have to be unpredictable and we have to be unpredictable starting now, but they're going to be gone. ISIS will be gone if I'm elected president, and they'll be gone quickly.</s>CAMEROTA: OK, Aaron, so we need allies, Hillary Clinton says. We need unpredictability, Donald Trump says. What do you hear?</s>MILLER: Well, Trump says the same thing about allies. He's threatened to boycott Saudi and Arab oil if the Arab states don't deploy their own ground forces to combat ISIS. And Hillary Clinton seems to be saying not that she's going to boycott Saudi oil, but that the Arab states have to do more. On the unpredictability factor, that's fine. But, one of Trump's points yesterday was reassurance of allies and to maintain a certain level of consistency, so it was a contradiction. I mean, how unpredictable are you going to be? So, I don't think there's much that separates them. Both are against nation-building, both are against the deployment of scores of thousands of ground forces. And both, ultimately, I suspect, will see the Islamic State as counterterrorism problem, not as a trillion- dollar social science project in an effort to fix Iraq and Syria and their politics.</s>CAMEROTA: One last question about ISIS because Donald Trump said something that a lot of people like and respond to. He is uncomfortable with President Obama telegraphing plans to send more troops. Telegraphing plans to send 250 special ops soldiers to Syria. Is that fair? Is it possible to do these things in a more quiet way?</s>MILLER: I think if you're talking about discreet military actions to kill terrorist leaders, to rescue American hostages, yes, discretion and secrecy is critical. But you cannot sustain a policy in a Democratic polity with an intrusive media and a Congress, frankly, that deserves to be informed about what the executive is doing, by basically acting quietly when it comes to the deployment of thousands of American forces.