What happens when America retreats from the world?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.5 | Is America retreating from the world? |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Leon Krause in for Warren Only, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:18.7 | During the Obama administration, numerous voices from the Republican |
| 0:22.0 | Party criticized Obama for leading from behind. But as president, Donald Trump has made the |
| 0:27.8 | withdrawal from international commitments his calling card. Is America now leading through retreat |
| 0:33.5 | and isolation? What will the global stage look like with the diminished United States? |
| 0:38.9 | Who will fill the void? Europe, China or Russia? And later, on today's talking point, |
| 0:46.1 | they played a significant role in Donald Trump's anti-immigrant agenda, but now they say they |
| 0:50.9 | feel exploited. Family members of people killed by undocumented immigrants. |
| 0:55.7 | But first, here's the news. |
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| 1:24.0 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm Leon Krause in for Warren only, and this is To the Point. Is President Trump taking his America |
| 1:36.5 | first agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate |
| 1:42.3 | change, distancing America from its traditional |
| 1:45.4 | allies across the Atlantic, and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the |
| 1:50.4 | building of a wall along its southern border. That's our main topic today. On today's talking point, |
| 1:56.3 | family members of people killed by undocumented immigrants played a significant role in Donald |
| 2:01.0 | Trump's presidential campaign. |
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