Susan Rice

It's like a three-year-old child in a sandbox.

And every day it's something, and he's clearly diminishing.

Yeah.

You know, he sat up in Davos and, I don't know, five or six times confused Greenland and Iceland.

Yeah, poor Iceland.

And never caught himself.

Yeah, poor Iceland.

But the reality is that we have in the White House somebody who feels unconstrained by law,

by the Constitution, and by anything.

And the tragedy is the Article I branch of government and the Republicans in Congress have decided they don't care enough to exercise their role and function and do their jobs.

And as long as that persists, we're going to be in great peril domestically.

but internationally as well.

We are, Nicole, doing what I have called committing superpower suicide.

Explain that.

Well, until a year ago, the United States was unquestionably the world's leading superpower.

And among our...

greatest strengths were not only our economy, but our national security, our defense, our development assistance, our diplomacy, and our greatest asset, arguably, on top of the traditional hard power assets, was our network of alliances and partnerships, which is what China and Russia have long envied.

No matter how powerful China becomes, no matter how aggressive Russia becomes, neither of them,

have ever had in Europe and Asia the network of alliances and partnerships that the United States has enjoyed and nurtured since World War II.

It is in many ways our superpower.