anti-american stance, but said he would honor commitments made between iraq and the united states regarding the training of iraq security forces and weapons purchases. david i ignatius, al sadr, a sworn enemy of the united states during the iraq war. what does his success in yesterday s elections mean? muqtada al sadr is a nationalist. he is anti-american, he s also relatively speaking for an iraqi shiite, anti-iranian. i think most important in terms of understanding what just happened, he s anti-corruption, he thinks that the people on top of the new iraq are stealing money everywhere and he s right. and i think this election result reflects public anger at the new kind of autocrats of iraq and what they ve been getting away with. i would caution although he came
the kushner family did a major it was in the need for funds 666. they bought it at the market peak, needed all sorts of funding and they re trying to get it from qatar, that didn t come through and the story making the rounds i have no evidence is that therefore qatar was going to be penalized and one of the administrations so affiliated or associated itself with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates was to put cut f qatar in the penalty box. i m not sitting here with evidence but the mere fact that we re having this conversation or the idea that the president would be concerned with chinese workers and unemployment levels and it s the timing, david ignatius. let s talk about the qatar incident and china where the united states deviates, donald trump deviates pretty dramatically from established policy from what he promised to. do you can talk about china and suddenly donald trump concerned about jobs in china, it was
and that s the company that donald trump just bailed out. i mean that part of it really boggles the mind. he goes so sharply against his national security officials. willie, i always tell the clinton story, because from the 1990s, about how one of the top democratic contributors wanted to send missile technology to china. and all the national security agencies were against it. the state department was against it, the pentagon was against it. you name it, they were all against it. you got ron brown in commerce to sign off on it. he let his big campaign contributor sell advanced missile technology to china. this is just the 2008 version of it. this is a far greater threat because for all the reasons that david said. the chinese are listening in like the russians, like the israelis, but this is a known, this is a known abuser.
will bring us more of the violence except the screen won t be split. increasingly the screen will be on the side of the violence rather than anything diplomatic. what s the impact david ignatius? are you concerned about the impact of our allies across the region, egypt, saudi arabia, jordan, the uae, others certainly are faithful allies to the united states for the most part. what s the concern, though, that the events of yesterday and the events that are sure to follow actually as andrea says may possibly destabilize these rejames comeys? well, the issue of the palestinians is powerful today as it s been for decades in the streets, in these countries, in jordan, in egypt, even in saudi arabia. and so it s going to be a
be at the top of the list. i notice he s nowhere to be found. may i introduce the show now? i guess. with us, the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. he hates cairkarins, too. jonathan lemire, david ignatius and nbc news can we do it? are we just going to be capitol hill correspondent that s what the weather looks like. host of kasie d.c. on msnbc. and joining the conversation, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. we re sorry, andrea. it s a bad morning. it gets worse. i m here to protect kasie. and also the former nato supreme allied commander he might lob a missile at us. retired four star navy admiral, shame on you all, james stavridis. he s chief international