He said almost the same thing to us when we briefed him when he was then president-elect trump on the 6th of january. wouldn t it be great if we could get along with russia? well, sure it would. where our interests converge. and no, i don t know that he understands what russia is about and the profound threat that russia poses to undermine our basic political system. and it s not clear to me he understands that. they are not our friends. they re not interested in doing good things with us. i may being a little biased because of my long experience with dealing with the russians, but and i just think we need to be very weary of them. i continue to be struck by the contrast with the commentary that s been made about the dessert fiction of the jcpoa with the iranians, the joint comprehensive plan of action for
Their living within the support of the deal. nikki haley said, president, if you re going to do this, let me help you. the president made it very clear in july he did not want to recertify this and secretary mattis and tillerson told him, look, you have not made a public case for dessert fiction. that s very important if you want to decertify. it was after that ambassador nikki haley came and said, i ll make the public case if you want to decertify. what s interesting is so many of the president s aides and advisers are trying to check his impulses and keep him under control. this is an adviser in haley that said, let me channel your impulse and help do what you want to try to do, lay the groundwork. i see shaping up in congress, the question to me is does this become another health care fiasco where majority of republicans have campaigned on undoing the deal, all the presidential candidates said,
Nuclear weapons and that s a tremendous danger for our collective future. p.j., should the americans be worried about the dessert fiction or should we look at this as an opportunity for congress to make the deal better? i certainly don t think congress is going to necessarily make the deal better. i mean, let s step back. there s no prospect that the allies or the other seven parties are going to renegotiate the deal. now, what congress will try to do, listening to senator tom cotton last week, outlining a prospective strategy, this congress will be asked to try to bring into the deal through unilateral legislative fiat, more aggressive sanction, more aggressive inspection, trying to make this a permanent deal and try to bring missiles insidite ran deal. the net effect of that is probably going to be termination of the deal, if the president follows through on his threat. and the irony here is that
sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in a campus shower. sandusky stands accused of assaulting eight boys. students are coming together, using facebook to coordinate a candle light vigil tonight in honor of the abused victims. less than a day after he was fired as head coach, pennsylvania s two senators say they are dropping their bid for joe paterno to receive the presidential medal of freedom. a major league baseball player kidnapped in venezuela is missing this morning. gunman s snatched washington nationals catcher wilson ramos from his family s home on wednesday night. the venezuelan baseball president says investigators are on the case. we are waiting for a solution. we talked with the authorities and they assure us that they re working very hard to solve this situation. we re waiting for that. police have found the abandoned car used to abduct ramos. they believe his abduction may be part of a sharp rise in kidnappings for ransom in venezuela. the mayor of