vacation to florida. joining us from the white house petering a ek sander. peter back to work for the president today. freezing day after his florida vacation, and he has plenty of golfing on his trip. what was on the docket for him now that he can t do golfing and has to get back to work with republican leaders? you re right about the cold part. new year. same set of foreign and domestic challenges. he s scheduled to have lunch with meike pence and alex acost. he ll meet with rex tillerson and jim mattis tomorrow. wednesday, some seen yonior whi house aides are going to meet at the capitol with senior members about daca that expires on march 5th. privately in my conversations top aides have said they re
providing taliban for decades, this president agreed to extend the u.s. at pakistan. we are at lagerheads. this is nothing new. the problem is not so much what the president tweeted the content of it. i m not sure tweeting makes a lot of sense. what i would do is quietly peak it clear our support for pakistan is going to be conditional going forward, our military support, based upon specific behavior, against terrorism. but to put it auto publicly now forces this pakistani s response, it makes it difficult to arrange anything behind the scenes. that is plenty difficult to begin with. pakistan, north korea, iran, all countries that have confused, being been problematic for an american president for decades, you ve written the book on this, it certainly looks like it s a world in disarray, but when you wrote this a year ago, i wonder
we will up what it is we re prepared to do against you. the real question is if north korea could live with a limited u.s. force. i wouldn t count on it. i think these are the kinds of conversations we re having. it s beyond scary. this is not i hate when i hear words like surgical or incident or prevent or strikes. this could be a massive war. people need to read some of the history about the previous korean war. it was an enormous scale. okay. it s 7:15 in the morning. president trump is up and he is tweeting back in washington on the ongoing situation in iran. let s listen. writing moments ago the people of iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt iranian regime. all of the money that president obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their pockets. the people have little food, big inflation, and no human rights. the u.s. is watching. amen, does the president have a point here that the sanctions
vice president pence perhaps foreshadowed, tweeted in part, quote, the united states of america will not repeat the shameful mistakes of our past when others stood by and ignored the heroic resistance of the iranian people. we must not and we will fought let them down. meanwhile, lawmakers on capitol hill have also been joining in with their responses to this unrest. lindsey graham echoed the president and vice president lauding blame at the obama administration saying trump should do more than obama ma, while i believe he needs to do more than tweet about the situation.
so far at least 21 protesters have died along with one police officer, after what began late last week as small localized rallies against iran s ongoing problems spread to most of the country and morphed to anger the government and the country s religious leaders. hundreds have also been arrested. so far, neither iran s feared volunteered militia nor the revolutionary guard have been deployed. iran s president said yesterday although the protest looked like a threat, with eneed to turn it into an opportunity and see what the problem is. adding, over, that the government would crack down on law makers. president trump weighed in via twitter yesterday tweeting, quote, iran is failing at every level, despite the special deal paid by them by the administration. the great iranian people have been repressed for years. they are hungry for food and freedom and human rights and wealth has been looted. time for change.