Hoyer Discusses President Trump's Foreign Policy on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" this morning to discuss President Trump's foreign policy. Below are excerpts from the interview and a link to the video. 

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“Australia has been our strongest, most loyal ally and being with us in the hot spots, not just as observers, but really in the fight with us. I thought it was extraordinarily unfortunate, apparently that the conversation between Prime Minister Turnbull of Australia and the President was such that clearly it was offensive to Turnbull. Although, as you saw, [Turnbull] handled himself very, very well, very diplomatically, and, I thought, very responsibly. The fact is, I wanted to tell Ambassador Hockey, look, you have a lot of friends on the Hill who clearly understand Australia is one of our best friends and we need to treat you as such.”

“I think experience would tell us over the last ten days and, frankly, the last 15 months, who knows what President Trump is going to do at any given moment and give offense to people that we need to… have confidence in us and we need to have confidence in our relationship with them. I thought Secretary Tillerson, yesterday, at the State Department clearly made it very apparent that he understands that we are, in fact, in this together with our allies and we need to have the confidence of our allies and we need to have full communication with our allies, so that they are not surprised and not put out on a limb. I don't have a lot of confidence that President Trump is going to learn that lesson. Nothing in the last 15 months has given us any confidence he will.”