Robert Daly on What the Trump Administration Should Focus on in the First 100 Days

"In the first hundred days, I think what I would most like to see vis-a-vis China and everywhere else is this administration do what other administrations do: staff up; get your people in place, get foreign policy professionals -- obviously foreign policy professionals of your stripe -- in place, and then conduct a serious policy review world wide, regional, and country by country, and conduct side-by-side with that a self-audit of what our interests are and what our real capabilities are. Then decide, and then issue tweets.  Regarding  modus operandi, as regarding everything else in this Trump administration, we’re going to see an evolution, we’re going to see people come and go, and we’re going to see positions walked back. This is normal whenever there’s a transition. It may be more extreme in this case. The administration will increasingly run into things like facts, history, the existence of other nations, that you can’t walk or talk your way around. There’s going to have to be a retrenchment. Staff up, and do the policy review. "