radio show host and former staffer to chuck schumer. we are all anti-saudi now. as someone who has been anti-saudi for a long time it s nice to have company. where were all the chest-beaters last spring when the united states bombed syria in part at the direction of saudi arabia? and everybody on the left, including your former boss chuck schumer said it s good idea to do the bidding of saudi arabia? but now anyone who says anything about saudi arabia is immoral. how did it change? i have always been concerned with saudi arabia. i m a new yorker who worked in the united states senate after 9/11. i don t trust them. they gave aid and comfort to people who bombed us. i don t understand how we look at what they did to khashoggi any differently than what al-qaeda did to daniel pearl. it s an act of terror and it should be dealt with that way. for trump s role, he has been tucker: hold on.
staffer to chuck schumer. we are all anti-saudi now. as someone who has been anti-saudi for a long time it s nice to have company. where were all the chest-beaters last spring when the united states bombed syria in part at the direction of saudi arabia? and everybody on the left, including your former boss chuck schumer said it s good idea to do the bidding of saudi arabia? but now anyone who says anything about saudi arabia is immoral. how did it change? i have always been concerned with saudi arabia. i m a new yorker who worked in the united states senate after 9/11. i don t trust them. they gave aid and comfort to people who bombed us. i don t understand how we look at what they did to khashoggi any differently than what al-qaeda did to daniel pearl. it s an act of terror and it should be dealt with that way. for trump s role, he has been tucker: hold on. wait, wait, wait. stop. before you get to trump and
$110 billion, which is an all-time record and letting russia have that money and letting china have that money, so what good does that do us? what do you think? i think the saudis over the decades have bought an awful lot of influence in washington and america. now they are politic reasons for going along with policy and a regime that we don t like in many ways, that exported terrorism, horrible human rights records at home but the main reason was oil, but we don t depend on saudi oil and the world depends less on saudi oil than it used to. what s the other reason, they are such a great stalwart ally against iran? i don t buy that. what are they really doing against iran? they are fighting a horrible war in yemen. we might be sort of on their side, but they are doing it in a way that s antagonizing everyone there and elsewhere. maybe, i ve been sort of anti-saudi vaguely for 25, 30 years, but this might be the occasion, a horrible tragic