Not to Defend Donald Trump, but…

In this week’s episode of The E.R., Foreign Policy’s managing editor for news, Yochi Dreazen, guest-hosts and is joined by Rosa Brooks and David Sanger of the New York Times to discuss, among other things, Sanger’s recent extensive interview with 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump. Which, of course, raises questions about Trump’s would-be foreign-policy ideas and how important the art of negotiation actually is to the presidency. In a President Trump world, will allies still be relevant? And, at the end of the day, what’s wrong with Trump’s tactics of using economic pressure and various forms of negotiation to get America what it wants?

Yochi Dreazen is the managing editor for news at FP and author of The Invisible Front. Follow him on Twitter at: @yochidreazen.

David Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times and author of Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power. Follow him on Twitter at: @SangerNYT.

Rosa Brooks is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and teaches international law, national security, and constitutional law at Georgetown University. Follow her on Twitter at: @brooks_rosa.