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00:01All right, welcome back to CNN's special live coverage of Election Day in America.
00:05Donald Trump once again elected to the White House.
00:08Leaders around the world congratulating him on his historic comeback.
00:12But there is one leader who apparently has no plans to congratulate him.
00:17Russia's Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin.
00:19CNN's Nick Robertson joins us now with more on this.
00:23Nick, good morning. What are we learning?
00:27Yeah, this is coming from Dmitry Peskov, the President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson at the Kremlin.
00:33And he says this when asked the question about why hasn't Vladimir Putin congratulated President-elect Donald Trump.
00:42And he said this, let's not forget that we're talking about an unfriendly country that is both directly and indirectly
00:51involved in a war against our state.
00:56So that is the Russian position on that.
00:58Now, Peskov was pressed by the journalists on his daily press briefing phone call.
01:03Well, isn't this going to put you in a bad and worse position with the United States?
01:08Because it's very clear the implication in the question that President Trump likes to get these congratulations early.
01:14We've heard from the British just earlier today.
01:16We've heard from many European leaders earlier today congratulating President-elect Donald Trump.
01:20And Peskov's answer was this.
01:22And he said, look, the relationship is really bad.
01:25How can it get any worse than it is already?
01:27And this is clearly a reference to something else that Peskov talked about in that phone call with journalists saying
01:33that the United States is in a position to end the war in Ukraine where Russia considers itself to be
01:40in essentially in a war confronted by the United States involving the United States.
01:46So the Kremlin's position on this, I think, gives us a hint about what about what Donald Trump has spoken
01:53about previously, about ending the war in Ukraine in the matter of a day.
01:59Russia's position on this is clearly going to be tough.
02:03And as Peskov went on to say in this phone conversation, that this issue over Ukraine is not going to
02:11be ended quickly.
02:12That is clearly going to be a tough road ahead for President-elect Donald Trump.
02:17Indeed, it is.
02:19And, of course, we're seeing a much different reaction from the Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, at this hour.
02:24Nick Robertson for us in London.
02:25Nick, thank you very much for that report.
02:27So as Nick was just talking about, leaders around the world, America's allies and its enemies, bracing for a second
02:35Trump presidency and a dramatic shift in both the style and substance of American foreign policy.
02:41Our panel is back.
02:44Alex Thompson, in terms of the way that foreign policy is conducted, we saw Joe Biden on the world stage,
02:53often in a way that seemed to underscore the ways in which the Western alliance, the NATO alliance, was perhaps
03:02fracturing or fading a little bit.
03:04That last appearance that he had with Western leaders, there was some footage where he appeared to wander off.
03:10But there were also a lot of other questions about the future for a lot of the other leaders that
03:14were meeting there.
03:16Huge questions about the way the West is going to continue to interact there.
03:19The contrast between how Biden campaigned around NATO, led with a NATO forward foreign policy, could not contrast more with
03:30how Donald Trump conducted the foreign policy in his latest term and with what we may expect in the second
03:35term.
03:35Yeah, foreign policy maybe didn't sway that many votes in this election, but it could actually be the clearest contrast
03:41between the two choices in terms of how they're actually going to govern.
03:44Kamala Harris had signaled that she was going to try to be tougher on immigration.
03:48She was going to be tougher on tariffs.
03:50But with regards to foreign policy, they're going to be completely different.
03:53Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were going to basically try to defend the post-World War II order, which really
03:58focused on NATO.
04:00It used to be communism versus democracy.
04:02Now it's authoritarianism versus democracy.
04:05Donald Trump has made clear he doesn't care about those ideologies.
04:09And I think it's, you know, buckle up.
04:13Kristen, what you said earlier was so interesting that it might not have been the first priority for many voters,
04:17but when they were voting on foreign policy, they were voting for Trump.
04:19And I think if you are trying to find a single reason why Donald Trump has overperformed with younger voters
04:25relative to past elections for Republicans,
04:29I think the divide I see in polls around foreign policy and the role of America in the world is
04:34no longer a left-right divide.
04:35It is a younger, older divide.
04:37If you are under the age of 40, you don't remember a time when America projecting its power in the
04:42world led to anything good.
04:43And so Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, when they get up and they talk about, you know, warmongers and
04:49they sound like they're code pink people from 2004,
04:52we've had a complete inversion of the way we talk about America in the world, the use of the military,
04:59et cetera.
04:59It's totally a generational divide.
05:01And the parties have completely flipped.
05:03Well, just one small thing to add to that.
05:04I was really struck at the Madison Square Garden rally.
05:07You had the Republican crowd cheering for people criticizing the Patriot Act and criticizing the Iraq War, which the RNC
05:16had been held at Madison Square Garden just 20 years before.
05:19I think it's a sobering reminder to see within an hour of this network calling the race,
05:23we read a quote from Vladimir Putin where his team essentially slid a stack of chips into the pot and
05:29said,
05:30all right, Donald Trump, what are you going to do?
05:31Are you going to double down on us being an enemy state?
05:34Or are you going to follow through with what you said on the campaign trail of trying to solve this
05:38in a week and getting both sides to get what they want and whatnot?
05:41It's interesting to see.
05:42But this is a big boys game.
05:44It's also interesting.
05:46It will be interesting to see how Netanyahu acts.
05:51You're reading my mind.
05:52That's exactly where I was going.
05:54Sent a congratulatory statement to Donald Trump.
05:56Well, I mean, just in addition to that, I think the hostages coming home is probably very much farther down
06:04on his list
06:04because now he knows he's got carte blanche to do whatever he wants.
06:07He was hoping for a Trump win because I think he knew that Trump was going to let him do.
06:13Hey, he's also going to stay out of jail now, right?
06:15He was going to let him do as he pleases in the Middle East.
06:19And that, despite Trump saying he will get us out of wars, that is an area where we could find
06:25ourselves very much more entangled given that that is becoming a broader conflict in the region.
06:31You know, I actually, we saw some of the things earlier today like Russia calling, or bomb threats, not I
06:39want to say the state of Russia, but bomb threats coming in in Georgia that the Secretary of State said
06:44emanated from Russia.
06:45So you saw that play a role.
06:47But the war in Gaza played a more looming role, I think, particularly in a state like Michigan.
06:53You saw in Dearborn, for example, certain precincts.
06:57There are precincts in Dearborn, Michigan that Kamala Harris finished third.
07:02I mean, you know, you have Trump, Jill Stein, and then Kamala Harris finishing third in those precincts.
07:09I'm interested as, you know, as we go through, I don't know if purge is the right word.
07:14I think that Republicans were going to go through a purge, Jeff, if Donald Trump would have lost, they were
07:19going to be able to have this kind of reckoning.
07:21I think Democrats are going to have this reckoning, and I'm interested to see how a part of our coalition,
07:27Arab American voters, those individuals who are or were pro-Palestinian, are going to analyze this race and what Donald
07:38Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the impact that's going to have in the war on Gaza.
07:42Because I just go back to Jared Kushner saying that Gaza would be good beachfront property, right?
07:48And I'm interested to see how individuals who either set out or chose Jill Stein to punish the Democratic Party
07:54are going to reconcile that with what happens with Bibi Netanyahu.
08:00I, for one, believe we're going to have more chaos if you're going to.
08:04I pray that he put somebody like a Marco Rubio, and I've actually, I don't know if I've ever verbally
08:09said that I'm praying for Marco Rubio out loud.
08:11But I'm praying that he put somebody like Marco Rubio, who at least has some sense of decency and common
08:19sense, although I don't agree with his policies per se, as Secretary of State, so we at least have a
08:24level of stability.
08:26My concern with Donald Trump is the lack of stability in our global standing.
08:29I mean, Casey, the big question...
08:31Rubio's never going to be confirmed now.
08:32They're going to just play that over and over and over again.
08:34The big question for me in terms of foreign policy is China, for a couple of different reasons.
08:39I'm looking at their technological advancements with hypersonic missiles.
08:42We're actually a bit behind with that technology in the United States.
08:46It's a very superior form of rocket use.
08:49We need to catch up there.
08:50I'm worried about that.
08:51I'm worried about the expansion in the South Chinese Sea.
08:54The Chinese government, they've been really strategic in going to developing nations, giving out these zero-interest rate loans,
09:00essentially trying to buy in favor.
09:02The United States was once the country that would help these nations develop.
09:05I'm worried about that competition there as well.
09:07So for me, what is the strategy from the Trump administration outside of tariffs to equal the playing field with
09:14China?
09:14And I look forward to working with him again to advance peace through strength through NATO.
09:20Jeff Duncan, how do you think Donald Trump is going to approach NATO here?
09:24Well, he's playing 3-D chess.
09:25I mean, he's in a situation now where two leaders that he got close with, North Korea and Vladimir Putin,
09:31now have troops on the front lines in Ukraine.
09:34He's got a Western Europe that's nervous.
09:37Chaos is a good idea until it's not, right?
09:40Like, chaos creates churn.
09:42You mistake activity for progress.
09:45But we have to have a sober mind show up and really cast a vision out.
09:49History shows that building consensus is really the winning strategy globally.
09:53And it doesn't feel that way, right?
09:55Somebody wants to read 10-second or watch 10-second soundbites or read a tweet.
09:58It feels good to see, you know, chaos.
10:00But it doesn't play out well.
10:02All right.
10:03So just in, we've got new reporting from inside the Harris campaign coming in.
10:08What they're saying after their loss.
10:10We'll tell you that up next.
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