with the issues. and i started president obama. but when i felt president obama should be more focused, i would go to him and talk to him. you do not give anyone unconditional support particularly when you re going to be running against if you re successful in the nomination somebody like trump. if you really want to see the candidate that you are choosing win, you have to put him into training and give him tough sparring partners. coddling him will not prepare him for this sraeurbs race, the one of the general election. you re not giving them by giving them a pass. you have to make them deal with the tough issues and the tough items. appreciate your time this sunday morning. we will talk about it throughout the day. al sharpton from washington, d.c. thank you. biden s speech later ahead on msnbc. a fiery meeting that took place in the oval office on monday that preceded john bolton s
it was 10 drones, relatively inexpensive weapons, that sent two saudi facilities up in flames. the strikes cut the kingdom s oil output roughly in half. we are talking about a loss of 5 million barrels a day. that is significant. it is 5% of the world s daily supply. the big question now, what effect is this going to have on oil prices. the answer is going to depend on some degree how quickly this facility can return to normal. i spoke with one analyst who thought gas prices could go up as much as 25 cents a gallon. the u.s. has oil reserves for scenarios like this. the department of energy has indicated it would be willing to tap into them if necessary. david? thank you very much for that update. let me start with you. you have written about this, how this played out yesterday and those images that we just saw are dramatic with the plumes of smoke and the fighters as well. yet it was something largely not addressed in realtime by the administration yesterday. not in realtime. apar
clinton is one thing. going on stage against three formidable, we hope, republican candidates who actually want to talk about policy, race iism. we have had time to assess the president s performance. his opponents have something to latch onto and hold him accountable. that s not something the president wants. i think we tend to overlook the fact that in 2016 a bunch of adults were on stage with now president trump. he s kind of wiped the floor with them. i don t think it s necessarily the president being afraid to take on the challengers. that rhetoric is trying to bait him into getting involved. the president has a very thin skin. to hear himself called afraid of anything, he will want to jump into the mix. it makes total sense for me that
this is up . i m david gura. we are learning more of the fight between president trump and john bolton. the afternoon before he departed the white house the two of them sparred over the idea of lifting sanctions on iran. bolton was the driving force behind the administration s maximum pressure campaign. kara lee joins us now. what happened in the oval office 2:00 p.m. on monday? the leaders of the united states, the national security adviser in that room. what happened behind closed doors? reporter: sure, david. what we have learned, we knew this meeting focused on afghanistan in part because, as you recall, last weekend is when the president disclosed that he was taking about heading a meeting with leaders of the taliban at camp david. john bolton pushed back on that. the president was frustrated he wouldn t go out and publicly back his policy.
no u.n. security sanctions agreeing with the usa. you have to stop buying iranian oil. iran has these obligations they would have to meet. they went away with the signature of the iran nuclear deal. so watching the president try and fenagle a meeting, the best option that can come from that would be if we get the iran deal back. and france paying up to keep this deal in shape. i think the french president worked very hard to get trump back into the deal one way or the other. they are basically the french are offering a mechanism which would give billions of dollars